“Let us with a gladsome mind, praise the Lord, for he is kind”*

by chuckofish

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The weekend turned out to be busier than anticipated, mainly  because the weather was so beautiful.

After my estate sale adventures proved uninspiring, I convinced the OM to take an autumnal drive to Washington, MO in Franklin County (about an hour’s drive)…

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Despite a wrong turn and an unnecessary 20-minute detour, we found our destination and enjoyed a yummy lunch which was definitely a step above our usual weekend Steak ‘N Shake indulgence. I will note that the OM appears to have forgotten all his Boy Scout orienteering skills in his embrace of and subsequent dependence on Google Maps and his iPhone. Then again, it must be admitted that we were looking for The Blue Duck restaurant as opposed to The Green Duck. (Blue Duck, you will recall, was a bad guy in Lonesome Dove.) Zut alors! Life is so complicated.

On Sunday I went to church and read an odd lesson from Hebrews wherein I had to say Melchizedek twice. Later that afternoon I had to go to a work event (the 2nd annual “Hootenanny”) held at the Ethical Society…

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The Sunday School room wall at the Ethical Society–God love ’em

…where old hippies sang protest songs and promised to Resist Authority.

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This is my life

Of course, seniors singing protest songs is akin to Episcopalians singing gospel music…so I was not uncomfortable. When I got home it was nearly time for the wee babes to come over for Sunday tacos with their parents and I barely had time to vacuum up the crumbs from their last visit.

IMG_1061.jpegIMG_1062.jpegSo you can see that my weekend went by in a flash. I did manage to watch Signs (1999) as well as a “quirky” English spy thriller, Q Planes (1939) which starred Laurence Olivier, Valerie Hobson and Ralph Richardson (always a favorite of mine.)

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It is definitely worth watching.

I am presently working my way through season 2 of Miami Vice, which in retrospect, is decidedly not the great show we thought it was back in the 1980s. (Except episode three–“Out Where t he Buses Don’t Run”–which is great.) Now I watch it mainly to see this guy…

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La di da, la d i da.

Have a good week!

*Hymn #389, John Milton