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You’ve heard about the pastor who was recently electrocuted during a baptismal service?

So have I! 

So today, with our janitor, I walked through placement of our baptismal tank (we have a portable tank – better than cutting a hole in the ice!).  Everyone should be able to see what is happening!  Of particular interest to me and those watcheing – the microphone will be out away from the tank.

If you are in the area – join us at 11:00 this Sunday (November 20).  The stories of those getting baptized will be electrifying – and may the pastor not be!

The snow is being blown by a Klipper wind.  I’ve shovelled three walks already today, and will do a second shift later today.

The wind blows north from Alberta, diagonally through Saskatchewan and onward from there.

I’ve never heard of this wind before, but I guess it has been around.  Our local hockey team is called the Klippers.  I guess the idea was that they would skate like the wind!  At least this weekend they got a point or two!!

Wind comes and goes.  So do signs! 

A month ago I routered an oak sign.  Just read “BAKERS”.

Then I put the sign up under the eaves.  With metal “S” rings.  Hooked to Christmas tree light holders.

In today’s windstorm, it all came tumbling down.

When I arrived home from work, there was a step stool on the front steps.  Jill had everything set for me to climb up and reattach the sign.  A little better this time.  So the wind won’t harm the “BAKERS”.  And the next time a wind blows, and things get a bit messy,  we’ll both be there to make sure the “BAKERS” are still there!

29 years and we’re still going – neither wind, nor snow (and Kindersley sees snow), nor hail nor sleet will keep me from my loved one! 

                                                Love Ya, Jill!

Stead Steward – my newest title in my multifaceted life!

In the fourteenth century William Langard wrote Piers Plowman.  One of the phrases talks about the “steward of the steads”.  The stead is a place that was or is someone elses.

A friend of ours moved but their house has not yet sold.  Every other day (an insurance requirement and good for peace of mind) I wander down and check out the house.  For the five or ten minutes I now can add a new title to my name.

Imagine the names we could attach to ourselves!  What titles do you have that are impressive for the amount of work you do??