Friday and Saturday ~ first week of Great Lent 2017

  

In brief:

First Pictures are of a woman's celebration of her husband who was an 

electrical engineer and died 6 years ago.

She spoke of how God (and her husband!) have been active in her life,

how even when she was a sudden new widow, wondering

what to do about mowing the lawn, a neighbour did it for a full year...

she spoke of how so many people came to help her and how

she was taken care of in her time of need...

I found this to be really encouraging.

Friday afternoon I took MANY pictures of Patrick's home.

I am not sharing any at this time for various (including legal) reasons...

My Husband is very busy with helping with Patrick's things 

and was off doing this while I went through his home,

seeing many things for the first time,

as he was slowing down by the time I moved here and unable to 

go upstairs any longer.

I was very touched by his Bible and prayer books, both

worn out with much use, over the years.

Patrick's house will be lived in again in about 2 months,

so we have a lot to do to make this happen and are going

to do what we can to help. 

We are glad we can do this... 

I finished another washcloth.

Pre-sanctified liturgy and the blessing of Koliva for 

St. Theodore... on Friday night...

Today I finally was able to pick up the clutter around the house,

and make the soup I had been meaning to make!

Used this recipe but omitted butter/cream/chicken broth

and used a organic margarine, vegan broth and pureed the

soup when I was done. 

I am dreaming of freshly baked baguette with this soup,

with salads for dinner this coming week.

 I was telling Mr Husband that this Lent is going to be a lot of work

regarding Patrick as it is a responsibility that we knew was coming

before he passed away... 3 weeks ago this coming Monday... 

So I missed quilt guild again.

I am not able to get to much writing on my essays at all.

I just have to trust God for the seasons of life that He gives us and 

that everything has a time and place in life. 

And that is the first week of Lent, already at an end...