On a Lighter Note

 NOTES TO GOD 

Oh...the age of innocence!
 

A Nun asked her class to write notes to God.

Here are some they wrote:
 
Dear God:
I didn't think orange went with purple 
until I saw the sunset you made on Tuesday. 
That was cool.
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 Dear God:
 Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones,
 why don't You keep the ones You already have?
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 Dear God:
 Maybe Cain and Abel would not have killed each other
 if they had their own rooms. 
That's what my Mom did for me and my brother.
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 Dear God:
 If You watch me in church on Sunday, I'll show You my new shoes.
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 Dear God:
 I bet it is very hard to love everyone in the whole world.
 There are only 4 people in our family 
 and I'm having a hard time loving all of them.
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 Dear God:
 Are You really invisible or is it just a trick?
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 Dear God:
 Is it true my father won't get into heaven
 if he uses his bowling words in the house? 
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 Dear God:                      
 Did You mean for the giraffe to look like that or was it an accident?
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 Dear God:
 Who draws the lines around the countries?
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 Dear God:
 I went to this wedding and they kissed right in the church. Is that OK?
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 Dear God:
 Did You really mean "do unto others as they do unto you"?
 Because if You did, then I'm going to get my brother good.
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 Dear God:
 Thank You for the baby brother, but I think you got confused
 because what I prayed for was a puppy.
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 Dear God:
 Please send me a pony. I never asked for anything before.
 You can look it up.
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 Dear God:
 I want to be just like my Daddy when I get big,
 but not with so much hair all over.
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 Dear God:
 You don't have to worry about me; I always look both ways.
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 Dear God:
 I think about You sometimes, even when I'm not praying.
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 Dear God:
 Of all the people who worked for You,
 I like Noah and David the best.
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 Dear God:
 My brother told me about being born but it doesn't sound right.
 He is just kidding, isn't he?
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 Dear God:
 I would like to live 900 years just like the guy in the Bible.
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 Dear God:
 We read Thomas Edison made light. 
 But in Sunday school they said You did it. 
 So, I bet he stole Your idea.

 

Thanks to my friend Marilyn for sharing these with me.

Update

  Dan is still symptom free, day 4 after exposure. We have stayed clear of family nearby though granddaughter #2 got exposed at summer school on Monday and is home today with an ear ache. 

Me? I woke up with a headache today and not the usual migraine type.  I tested and was negative. I'm thinking that Dan may have it symptom free and I am catching it from him. We have both had four shots.

His chorus of 20 now has 8 members testing positive for Covid.  The last person had symptoms for 4 days before she tested positive.

Our Covid Story

Here is our Covid story which doesn't have an ending yet.  

Dan is in a chorus that rehearses an hour and a half away from our home.  Fortunately he joined a carpool that meets a half hour from here.  The chorus had their first of five performances on Sunday a week ago. That Monday the director was exposed to Covid.  He took all the precautions and thought he was in the clear to direct their open rehearsal/concert on Thursday.  He even masked for that. Friday morning he came down with symptoms and tested positive!

Now the chorus is a rather elite group and some of the members are music directors as well.   There was a concert scheduled on Friday evening so the music directors in the group split up the 90 minute concert with one of them stepping up to conduct a most difficult and long selection. The concert went well.  I attended and was impressed.

Saturday the group traveled by carpools for 2 hours south and west of here for a concert. That one went well too.

Sunday afternoon was to be the last concert. That morning the pianist sent out an email that she had tested positive for Covid.  There was no way another pianist could step in to replace her. The concert was canceled.

Sunday evening, one of the members of Dan's carpool, that he had spent a total of 4 hours in the car on Saturday, with tested positive.  He had tested himself Sunday morning before going to work at his church and was negative.  Then symptoms set in and 12 hours later: positive.

So Dan has been exposed! Maybe from the director, maybe from the pianist, but definitely by his fellow carpooler.  We tested Dan last night at 8:00 pm and he was negative.  He had no symptoms then and none this morning. Yesterday he tried to sign up for a PCR test for this morning but with no symptoms he didn't meet the criteria.

As a precaution I slept in the guest room last night but is that going to make a difference to my exposure level? He could be contagious now before showing symptoms.  If he does test positive, what do I do? On one hand I feel like "Let me just get it over with." On the other hand despite being double boosted I worry "What if I get a severe case?"

As I said the story has no ending yet.  Dan thinks if he doesn't get symptoms by Thursday he's in the clear. I think we will need to continue to test him.

What would you do?

Barn Renovation Complete

 Here are photos in chronological order of the barn from when we first purchased it through the renovations all last year to the completion of the painting this week.

The barn shortly after we moved in December 2020.

The back side was not completely painted.

Dan removed one of the lofts and lifted the floor boards on the side that was to be the garage.

The barn had sagged so had to be lifted on this side.

Concrete floor poured so it could be used as garage.

Driveway graded and filled with hardpacked gravel.

Winter 2021-22 Sill work on other side of barn.

Clapboards replaced.

New garage doors and garden room door installed.

July 2022 Barn painted.

Compare above photo to bottom photo and you can see how much work we have put in.