Monday, August 11, 2025 Reboot the Blog

My last post was a month ago. We have been hither and yon and living lives of such abounding activity that the blog was abandoned. Some of you have probably been relieved not to get the regular emails with my posts attached. If that describes you, I have no rancor toward you whatsoever. And if you decide that it was such a relief that you might as well unsubscribe, I will cheer you on. However, for those of you who actually missed my little musings, bless you. It is for you that I write.

Now as to the abounding activities, here’s a sampling of them:

We got reacquainted with 5-month old “Darling,” and met brand-new granddaughter, “Sweetheart.” Sweetheart was still fresh from the womb, only 3 days old when we met her.

Later in the week we had a family reunion, which included the other two grands, “Lovey” and “Dovey.” Being grandparents is such a joy. And we’ve got another little dear coming in October!

We went to our favorite used book store. Twice. And bought books both times. We currently own 2,131 books, but that number not only doesn’t discourage us from accumulating more, it’s almost an incentive to keep going.

Bowling! Our bowling crew included the 5-year-old and 3-year-old, who used the bowling ball ramps to send their balls toward the pins. Their dad was chagrined to find that they scored better than him for both games.

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Swimming! Well…swimming is a bit of a misnomer. Let’s just say that we were in swimming suits and were, in fact, in the water at the local water park.

Farmer’s Market! (I feel like I’ve gone a bit to the dark side with all of these exclamation points). I’m more of a window shopper at the FM usually, but this time I bought tiny doughnuts to share with our crowd, as well as a tiny book for putting tiny drawings into.

Add to that many meals eaten together, two birthdays celebrated, a family photo taken, a few movie nights, visits to thrift stores, conversations with old friends, church services (and the baptism of Sweetheart) and you’ll see why we slid under our sheets tired but happy every night.

O taste and see that the Lord is good!

I’ll probably reboot the reboot of this rebooted blog in the morning.