Whoever said that “retirement” was going to be slow and dull? This past weekend was anything but.
We started off on Friday with a “Family Fun Day” at the school of our granddaughter in Austin. A “warm” day, so I enjoyed the shade of the school grounds while the children went from one activity to another. That evening we attended a birthday party for a friend from church at Lake McQueeney, east of town. The club is known as “Lake Breeze,” and now I know why!
Saturday morning was the first church-wide rummage sale at out church, with all proceeds going to our Habitat for Humanity fund. We are planning to construct a Habitat House in NB next year, so our first task is to raise the required $50,000 for the project. Saturday evening our good friends the Martins came through town on their way to the gulf, and we enjoyed catching up on all that had happened since we moved away from Kansas City in 1992.
Sunday was our interim vicar’s last day at St. John’s, so we had a big celebration to wish him and his wife Godspeed as they go into retirement a third time. Our new vicar will arrive in two weeks. There was special music in the service (with the children signing the anthem) and an elegant brunch following the service.
In the afternoon we went to “Gruene Market Days” in Gruene and picked up a few more plants for the garden. I have had trouble finding both mint and tarragon as we recreate an herb garden here, and was glad to spot a booth that featured more kinds of mint than I have ever grown before (whoever heard of basil mint?) This time the mint will be planted in a section of the garden where it can spread and not threaten every other plant! (I learned the hard way in Connecticut.)
In the evening it was great to relax with the New York Times and watch the selection of this year’s “Survivor” on television.
We started off on Friday with a “Family Fun Day” at the school of our granddaughter in Austin. A “warm” day, so I enjoyed the shade of the school grounds while the children went from one activity to another. That evening we attended a birthday party for a friend from church at Lake McQueeney, east of town. The club is known as “Lake Breeze,” and now I know why!
Saturday morning was the first church-wide rummage sale at out church, with all proceeds going to our Habitat for Humanity fund. We are planning to construct a Habitat House in NB next year, so our first task is to raise the required $50,000 for the project. Saturday evening our good friends the Martins came through town on their way to the gulf, and we enjoyed catching up on all that had happened since we moved away from Kansas City in 1992.
Sunday was our interim vicar’s last day at St. John’s, so we had a big celebration to wish him and his wife Godspeed as they go into retirement a third time. Our new vicar will arrive in two weeks. There was special music in the service (with the children signing the anthem) and an elegant brunch following the service.
In the afternoon we went to “Gruene Market Days” in Gruene and picked up a few more plants for the garden. I have had trouble finding both mint and tarragon as we recreate an herb garden here, and was glad to spot a booth that featured more kinds of mint than I have ever grown before (whoever heard of basil mint?) This time the mint will be planted in a section of the garden where it can spread and not threaten every other plant! (I learned the hard way in Connecticut.)
In the evening it was great to relax with the New York Times and watch the selection of this year’s “Survivor” on television.
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I think you imagined that retirement meant that you rested but it really means that you get re-tired!
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