Our School Supply Giveaway went very well. We had hoped to give free school supplies to 1,000 kids but God had other plans. This year we were very proactive in our registration time with the parents to have good one-on-one's with them. We helped approximately 450 kids with their school supplies and had a huge amount of "warm/caliente" one-on-one's with parents that were very receptive to talking about God, our church, etc. And we had five families from the school supply giveaway attend church last Sunday!
Part of our school supply giveaway was Bubba Dowling showing amazing feats of strength and sharing the gospel with those in attendance. Bubba is the brother of one of the men in our church. And Bubba was in the service Sunday seeing if our lead pastor could rip a small phone book in half - check out the pic below.
My elbow seems to be getting better from my fall at work. The scab from the half of the scar that blistered came off today. I'm still having a little problem with my left leg though.
The cats are still on their med to help their poo get solid - so far still not working. I feel really bad for them.
It's hard to believe but last Wednesday (8/21) was one year that I put Butler down. I can't believe it's been a year since he's been gone. He was an amazingly great dog that Mike found for me. He was a great comfort to Mike after his kidney surgery and he was at home recouperating. I was always Butler's person but it was amazing how close we got after Mike died. I do miss him from time-to-time but know that was the right day to let him go to the Rainbow Bridge.
Work is crazy and we haven't hit "busy season" yet. That won't hit for another week or two and run through Thanksgiving. I'll be working 10 hour days and probably one day on the weekend.
Thursday morning I woke to Rowdy scratching at something and I'm like, "stop it, I have 15 more minutes to sleep". Well, I decided to get up, go to the corner where the cats were and get them away from whatever they were doing. When I got them back from that area, the scratchy noise kept going. I thought they had probably trapped a bug but I didn't think a bug would make that much noise. I figured it was a mouse and I wasn't too excited about that but I could deal with it. I was wrong - it was a bat. Only the fourth bat in the house since we moved in, in August 1985 but my first without Mike. I like bats but I thought I needed to get it out of the house so the cats don't bite it or the bat bite the cats. So I call WDM Animal Control - and I don't have my glasses on - and that's when the bat decided it could fly and wanted to dive bomb me. So I keep seeing it dive toward me, I'm on the phone with the dispatcher and occasionally screeching in the dispatcher's ear. Animal Control showed up and I knew her so after a few minutes of the bat dive bombing both of us - Carol caught it and took it outside.
I have blogged before how I thought I should look at large, flat screen tvs, get rid of DishTV and go with a Roku box for Netflix and Hulu. Well I got the 50" flat screen Visio tv Friday after work. I haven't gotten rid of Dish yet - I need to make sure an antenna works to bring in the local channels but I did sign up for a Netflix account last night. I'll sign up for Hulu next week. Both Netflix and Hulu were "built in" to my tv already so I don't need to buy a Roku box now. I have duct taped the tv stand to the cabinet it sits on so Rowdy doesn't knock it over on top of him and smash him flatter than a pancake.
Today I had two Living Waters Fellowship basketball clinics that I helped with registration. The 9:00 a.m. clinic had a really good turnout. The 11:00 a.m. clinic had maybe 10 kids so they played basketball kids vs the men that were putting on the clinic. And it was H-O-T hot. After that I had a baby shower at my pastor's house and I asked him if his wife would be ok with me heading to their house early and begging to use a wash cloth, towel and some soap to get some of the stink off me from the basketball clinics :)
Tomorrow will be a crazy day with church, water baptism at Easter Lake, lunch at my pastors to kill some time before a baby shower, then kill a little more time before the live Living Waters Fellowship fantasy football draft that I am involved in. I have a fantasy football team :) It's VJ Big Dawgs. I have a co-manager which is a bud from work that will help me with the draft and through the season. The name is for Veronda Joy who lives in Valley Junction (VJ) and Brad David (Big Dawgs). A play on both our first two initials. This should be interesting to say the least.
The last two pix are of Rowdy of course. One is him under the covers and the other is him sitting on my tummy - that's how close he gets at times. :)
