Recovering

Life is returning to what little semblance of normal that their typically is after the events of the Easter weekend. Its Tuesday morning, there are snow flurries in the air, and I have 5,427 letters to send out to first time guests of the church who visited on Thursday, Friday and Sunday. That will be my morning...and then it will be time to hit the books for this weeks assignments this afternoon. A couple of meetings to top off the day will be taking place this evening, and then, as usual, dinner will probably be at 9:00pm or after. That's right...we'll will be back to some semblance of abnormal.

Last evening we went to The HoopFest Tipoff Party at the Knitting Factory downtown. It was an opportunity to get together with about 500 other people...sponsors and volunteers for HoopFest in June...to watch the NCAA Championship Game on huge TV's while eating free food and drinking free beer (and Diet Dr. Pepper). It was actually quite fun to watch a very tight game amongst a big crowd. There was a lot of cheering for Butler and a lot of booing at Duke.

Our weather remains an enigma, as it usually is in early April. We had this very easy winter, and most of March was beautiful. Now it is constantly cold and damp with on and off rain and snow. Its like this every year because it is still very cold in the northern latitudes, while warmer air is increasingly coming up from the south. These air masses collide and along the boundary there are huge storms that form. They drag down pools of cold air behind them which tend to linger over the western United States and southwest Canada. That provides us with the "yucky" weather. Hang in there...things will get better later in the month and into May!