Updates

So a few things have been going on around here. You know we got the new paint job on the front of the church. Yesterday (in the bitter cold) a parishioner and I installed a new porch light. Actually, he installed it and I stood around looking useful.


It sort of looks like this, but with a little different top:

And then, today, I found out something else. Several weeks ago, I was upstairs at St. Paul's and found this cd of Elisabeth Von Trapp sitting on the altar. Elisabeth, btw, is a granddaughter of Maria and Baron von Trapp fame. Generally speaking, this is not something I would rush right out and purchase, so I knew it wasn't mine. I thought that maybe George, my altar guild in VC, had left it there on accident. I've been meaning to ask him ... kept forgetting ... then he went on vacation .... Today I finally remembered.

"Is that yours? I found it on the altar and thought maybe you left it there."

"No, not mine."

So he opened it up and read, "Dear Rev Ref -- Wishing you many new blessings. Elisabeth von Trapp."

I am not kidding. Apparently Ms. von Trapp was in Virginia City and left me an autographed gift. While not my favorite style of music (I would have been more excited if this or this had shown up), I wish she had dropped by when I was in the office. I'm listening to the cd as I type this up, and, as you would expect, she has a lovely voice. Very calming and soothing ... it'd be nice to play next to the bed with the volume down low and drift off to sleep.

So, that's what I've been doing lately.

Advent is upon us, how you doing?