Nice day today after the rain yesterday. Yes we did have rain and it was quite heavy for a while, with thunder and everything. It cooled a bit this evening but is warming up to the mid to high 80s on Sunday. Just in time for the Faire.

Dick and I went grocery shopping today and had several other errands to run also. We were gone for three hours which is really a long time for us. I dropped a quilt off for the quilt turning at the Quilt Show, we went to the bank and the drug store and stopped at Discovery to pay for the Mystery Tour which we will go on in October.

This evening we had choir practice. The words I wrote sound pretty good. I think it will go quite well. We are also singing several other traditional Irish songs. Be Thou My Vision and Christ Be Near at Either Hand. Jim Wilsing, the bagpiper, told me that he is taking a crash course at the Red Cross and then will be sent down to the Gulf Coast to help with the rescue effort. I told him that I was glad but that he must be so careful and to let me know when he is leaving so that I can get him on our prayer chain whild he is gone.

When Dick went in for his test on Monday, we were talking with one of the nurses about the situation in the Golf. She said that the news was not on much in her house because she has a very impressionable 5 year old daughter. When the tornado did all the damage in Stoughton Wisconsin, her daughter started getting obsessed with the "tomatoes".

I was amazed at her daughter calling them "tomatoes". When Bart was about 4 years old, I was living in Santa Ana California in one of my previous lives. We planned a visit to Wisconsin. That year a tornado had swept through Sheboygan County and actually caused the death of a baby in the Sheboygan Falls Area. Bart kept saying he didn't want to go to Wisconsin. I finally got out of him that he didn't want to go because they had "red tomatoes" in Wisconsin and he didn't think it was safe because it killed that baby in Sheboygan Falls. Two little people both misunderstood the word tornado but knew tomato. How funny is that.

Another quote from John O'Donohue. "I am always amazed that poems are willing to lie down and sleep insid the flat, closed pages of books."

Appropriate since I am going to a Writer's Conference on Saturday.

Have a good Friday.

Mary