Reverend Ref +

IT HAD TO BE DONE

Cleaning the church, that is. Mrs. Ref (with a little help from yours truly) made two pots of soup and we had a cleaning party at CC tonight. We had enough people show up so it wasn't too much work, but not enough so that all the soup was gone.

One group of women cleaned the church proper. Polishing the pews and woodwork, vacuuming up dead flies and other multi-legged critters, cleaning bird droppings off the reredos -- yes, apparently there was a bird in the place. The other group of women cleaned up after the soup supper.

The one other guy and I worked in the parish hall replacing burnt out lights, cleaning those damn light covers that you see over flourescent fixtures but are almost impossible to remove or reattach without breaking something, cleaning off the cobwebs, and sweeping the floor.

Nothing says "clean" like company, I always say. And what better company to have than the bishop. And, oh yes, I got that hole covered behind the altar, so no worries about damaging the Holy Reverend Sir at my very first visitation.

Best moment of the night -- well, let me just say this: It's usually a good idea to see if the lights have actually been turned on before deciding that they need to be replaced.

And now I'm trying to figure out how to run itty bitty baptismal certificates through my printer and get everyone's name and pertinent information to fit in the preprinted spaces. The fun never ends.