1865 STUFF

Saturday was the 2nd of two Virginia City Victorian Balls. Saturday was a busy day.

Mrs. Ref did a stint down at the local food bank. While she was there, I "attended" the annual football rules clinic. MT does these things online so nobody has to drive for hours and hours. About 11:30, the FD was paged out for a telephone pole fire. I didn't go because, 1) I was going to be leaving for Butte in 30 minutes, and 2) I didn't have the car.

So at noon, Mrs. Ref and I headed up to Butte for some much needed grocery shopping before our new foreign exchange girl showed up. Got home about 4:30, unloaded the groceries, and then I changed into my "work clothes" and headed up to VC because I had been asked to invite people to our 1865 service and give the invocation.

Now, remember that pole fire? Yeah . . . it was on the line to VC, so the town was without power from 11:30 on. People in town were wondering if they were still going to have the dance. They did the promenade through town, processed into the hall, had the official welcome, played the Star Spangled Banner, then turned it over to me for the prayer. I invited them all to our 1865 service on Sunday, told them about our 3rd Annual Bluegrass Concert & Ice Cream Social on Monday, and then began praying.

At which point . . . . the lights came on.

I scored some serious points with the locals . . . :-)

I wish the service went as well, but, alas, it didn't come together as well as the first one. Oh well . . . next year I'm only doing one.