Sunshine On My Shoulders

Yeah...the sun is shining on my shoulders today, and one my head, and hands and neck and nose. It is not shining on my belly though, as it is still a little too cold for that, and besides, I am not one of those guys that feel it necessary to share my girth with the world. Anyway, it sure is nice to have a sunny day. Temperatures are already heading into the 50s, and we should end up comfortably in the mid to upper 50s this afternoon. Halloween is a week away, and it would be great to have weather like this! Right now it looks cool and cloudy. There may be a bit of mist or a few sprinkles, but it doesn't look all that wet, at least that is the way things look from this vantage point. Temperatures will be in the 40s during the day dropping into the 30s in the evening. I'll keep watching that forecast and keep you posted over the next week.

Today is the big day...Gladys is officially 100 years old! We'll get the party started in a couple of hours. There is something else going on here at the church that I could spend the next 6 weeks writing about. It all boils down to a neighbor of our church property that is a few bricks shy of a full load. He has issues, boy does he have issues, with our presence here, and thinks that we owe him to improve the access to his property so that he can subdivide it and and develop home sites. Making him wealthy is not part of our mission so we haven't given him the quarter million dollars or more that he thinks he needs to get the job done. The problem is that we share a driveway with him. We own half and he owns half. He is doing everything that he can do, today he is putting a fence down the middle of it, to keep our people off of HIS property. We are having the road improved out at the end of the driveway, so a little bit of gravel was scraped up onto his side of the drive yesterday, and that set him off on the latest tirade. This tirade included assaulting the vehicle of a church member, denting it, and screaming threats at her as she drove out last evening. He claims she ran over his foot as she was trying to very slowly navigate our right of way so as to stay off his property. He seems none worse for the wear this morning. Like I said...I could go on forever. The bottom line is that Monday the new road will be paved and we will never need to go anywhere near his side of the driveway again, so he will have a driveway with a fence running down the middle of it. The fire department ought to love that.