DEO on STX

DEO+ on STX #14
25 September 2009

Visitors from the Diocese of Atlanta
The Rev. David & Marie Probst from Macon were recently here for a week of clergy supply; they stayed in the St. John’s rectory, did Sunday service and enjoyed the “sun and fun.” It was good to show them around the Island;
Fr. Bob Dendtler was away for a golf tournament.

Roasted pig,sheep,goat and chicken
BBQ planned for Next Saturday twice rained out! It appears like our feast to honor workers will be a for a huge success! More later!

We waited out another “storm”
Tropical depression #8 has been downgraded with a less then 30% chance of regeneration! She is moving North-West out to sea; so whatever she does it appears it will miss us! We dodged another storm!

Car fixed!
The church new car is now repaired; the “kiss dent” was pulled-out/smoothed-over while I was “off Island.” It’s great to have a body shop man in the congregation! Some “S.O.B” backed into me while I was in Office Max; he had an “old pick-up” truck; never stopped or looked back. Jerk.

Fresh avocado right off a tree
Food is very expensive if imported; local veggies and fruit reasonably priced.
Local avocados go for $1.50 to $2 bucks each. California avocados run $3.50!
A friend picked a large “football sized avocado right off his tree; I learned if you shake it and hear the seed raddled inside, she is ready and ripe! Delicious.

Shells & coral
Its fun to gather treasures from the daily ocean walks; recently I found some beautiful large shells which line our stair case; lovely, except now more difficult to clean/sweep the steps. Go figure.

Away to Western Massachusetts
Babs and I attended province I & II Chaplain’s Conference to Retired Clergy and Surviving spouses; we were in Stockbridge, Massachusetts; we stayed at the historic Red Lion Inn; visited the Norman Rockwell Museum; Shaker working farm museum; then Babs spend a “girl-weekend-in-Manhattan” with her sister and our daughter.

Shopping at the US Army PX
A friend at St. Peter’s is retired military; there is a PX on Island; so as “guest” shopper, “the bargains” are worth the drive to the Army PX. Cash only :(

Holy Cross Monastery
While Babs was spending mucho dollars in NYC, I “retreated” to the upper Hudson River; spending the weekend at the Holy Cross Monastery and visited
with Brother Randy Greve,OHC; then enjoyed a night with Fr. David Hoopes,OHC
at St. Edwards the Martyr on 109th Street and Madison Avenue (on the edge of Harlem) on Central Park; very quiet neighborhood; great steak dinner, most reasonably priced; shocking economy and unpredictable.

Babs stayed in Cumming
We have lived in our residence in Forsyth County, Georgia now fourteen years; normal delayed maintence has caught up with us; so Babs is supervising the exterior painting and gutter repair. If the rain stops the work goes on. Slow progress with the torrential rains in north Georgia recently.

Igelesia de San Francisco
The local Hispanic Episcopal congregation is without a Priest-leader; so based on my experience assisting Saint David’s, Roswell, GA, I stumble thru the Mass as best I can with a mixed Spanish-English liturgy. The folks seem to appreciate the effort and put up with my “kindergarten Spanish.”

Come See Us Mon!
La Paz y Buen Camino!

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