Sunday Salon, June 3

Dreaming about lazy summer days.

Weather today... Overcast, cool, and rainy. We're having a wet, cold end to our Spring. 

Yesterday a high school friend, Jean, and her partner stopped by for an overnight visit. It was a reminder about the preciousness of friendships and I should be better at nourishing them. Thanks, Jean. I love you.

Today the leadership team at church competes in a Bible Jeopardy against the Children's Sunday School classes. Every year the adults lose. Later in the day we serve lunch to the homeless population in our area.

I'm reading: 

• Sabriel by Garth Nix.  One of my colleagues always raves about this book and the series.  I am enjoying it. 

I'm listening to:

• Day After Night by Anita Diamant---Set in Palestine in 1945 before Israel was a country. It is interesting and so well-written. This is the perfect format for this book with all of the Hebrew words and names.

Book finished this week:   

• Me and Earl, and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews. See the opening paragraph on my Book Beginnings post from Friday.  It was a lot more poignant than I anticipated.
• Iron King by Julie Kagawa.  I finally finished this opening book of the Iron Fey fantasy series.
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.  This was the second time listening to this audiobook.  
• The Miles Between by Mary Pearson.

Scripture lesson in church:Habakkuk 2:14 "For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD..."

I'm praying for:Patt and his wife.  Cancer treatments keep him low on energy with pain and breathing problems.  It is hard to be the spouse at times like these.

Around the house: The librarians from the district were here for a social and the weather cooperated.  We had smoked salmon, shrimp, and lots of other yummy snacks.

From the kitchen: Dan (my daughter's fiance) and I taste tested a red wine we're considering for the wedding, Renegade Red. It's motto: "Glasses, we don't need no stinking glasses."