The bishop of our conference has assigned a new Associate Pastor to our church; Quincy Wheeler. Quincy is 26 with a degree in communications and is a seminary student, so he will be a part-time pastor. He started doing the WOW2 service at the biker bar a couple weeks ago, and is doing a wonderful job. He is very enthusiastic! Instead of a sermon, Quincy is leading us in a study of the book of Phillipians, which he has been studying for 3 years. The attendance for WOW2 is averaging 30 people, up from last year's average of 20.... God at work.
Our friend Ron is coming home from Liberia this week; he has been gone since June. Pat says she will be glad to have him back home, not only because the "honey do" list is 1/2 mile long!
TR is working this week-end, so I will be going with Ron and Pat to WOW at Roaming Shores on Sunday. This is the last WOW at the Lake for the year. (WOW2 at Harassments is year round.)
More rain - rain - rain! TR washed the car the other day while we had a half day of sunshine. Since then, we have gotten 1 gallon of water (TR left the car washing bucket outdoors). The garden appreciates the rain, the honeybees do not.
If the sun ever shows its face for a day or so, I'm going to put the escape board under the top super and harvest the 7 frames still left in there. Goldenrod is just starting to bloom here, so I want to make sure that one super is just goldenrod honey.
The temps here have fallen too - our highs are in the upper 70s and lows in the lower 60s. Thankfully, nothing at all like the 100 at Jon and Erin's place or at Kel's...in Texas. Kel said the grands are going through the frozen juice pops like mad.
Yesterday I cleaned out the church refrigerator. Someone had left a bag of Christopher Ranch White California garlic in there. Most of the garlic had started to sprout and some was moldy. The bag wasn't in there last month when I cleaned out the fridge, so not sure when it showed up. Anyway, Pat told me to take the garlic home, since the Christian Cafe and Table Talk groups only use that pre-diced jarred garlic. (yuck
) So today I roasted the 15 good heads of garlic with some olive oil. I then pureed it and put it into a pint canning jar. I will use this instead of fresh garlic in recipes.
I also froze another couple quarts of green beans, harvested some more scarlet runner beans (dry beans), dried some apple slices, dried some sage, roasted 3 pounds of fresh beets (olive oil, balsalmic vinegar, salt and black pepper). I also made 4 more batches of basil pesto, which is now in the freezer.
I still have about 2 or 3 pounds of green and banana peppers to do something with....I haven't decided what yet.
Have fun!
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