The heating system at church was not working well today so we all kept our coats on. We looked like a bunch of snowmen waiting for the Spring Thaw. By the time it was choir practice, the heat kicked on but meetings were pretty much over by then so it was rather counterproductive. Our choir director is from the Gardiner Ward and she gets so excited about how well we are singing and she really gets into the conducting bit, that a birth mark on her face appears and begins to get pink and then by the end of the song it is bright red.
At about 3.15pm we left for the concert at Oakland which is a very small town just east of Waterville and even though we had a Mapquest Map, we still got lost. They had a traffic signal at an intersection that sported 5 roads and a train track. Hard to tell which lane goes first at that kind of intersection. We were at the Oakland-Sidney UM church. It is the church that Ann Small from the Archives attends. A very large black lady was greeting everyone and I picked her as the pastor and I was right. She came to introduce herself to us and to welcome Ann to the concert. She was a little surprised to have two Mormon missionaries in attendance at the concert. The Concert was given by the Carnegie New York bound choir from the Messalonskee High School. The kids did very well. They sang songs from around the world, and in particular a song from Israel that was very much like the songs sung at the Shabbat Service I attended in Prescott when I was taking the Judaism course at Yavapai college. These kids are very good singers and it was a real pleasure to sit there and listen to them. For some of the carols, the conductor had the audience join in.
It was quite light when we set out for Oakland and it was getting dark at 3.45 when we got there and by the time we left after the concert and refreshments, the keeper of the skies had cloaked us with the crystal bejeweled black velvet sky that he reserves for crisp winter nights. Then as we were driving down the highway back to Augusta, he lifted the full moon into position above us and we will have a FULL tide tonight. The full moon does that.
Even though the weather is getting colder each day, it is not an unpleasant cold. It reminds me of the years in Johnstown. My thought pattern then was “If it is going to be this cold, it might as well snow.” I was much younger then and did not mind sliding on the ice and snow and the kids had a blast in our back yard with the little sled that we had. They slid down the slight grade we had and they did not mind the cold. Well, it is now 37 years later and my bones say that Warm is better than cold and as soon as I can be back in the warm the better for me. We went for a long time in this apartment before we turned on the heat. Guess we have wimped out and started using the heat daily. I checked on Slim Pickins and he is still in the window, but not sitting in the middle of his web – but rather hiding in the crack between the two parts of the window.
Well, we face another week of digitizing. It looks like it is shaping up to be a very busy week. Not only do we have digitizing all day, but on each night this week, we have evening events to attend. I am looking forward to the Cony High School winter concert on Thursday night. 3 of the youth from our Augusta Ward are in the choir. One of them is a senior this year and has applied to BYU and one other school ( just in case she does not make it to BYU.)
It is good that we are kept busy with digitizing and other church activities – it leaves no time for us to become bored. Boredom has rarely been a problem – there is always something to do.
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