Jesse Duplantis and Dill Pickles

Weird title, ay? Sunday I made my first batch of dill pickles for the season. They are delicious and one jar is already half gone! My kids love them. I will be making bread and butter pickles tomorrow. Home-made always tastes so much better than store-bought! When we get back from vacation I'm going to dig the potatos and use the raised bed for more cucumbers and bush beans. I intend to increase the amount of canning this year.

Jesse Duplantis was at our church the other night. It's the second time I've seen him there. He's a really funny guy. Yet, no nonsense. I'm not used to sitting way up in the back of the church, but the place was already just about packed when we got there. The curtains kept malfunctioning while he preached and would close and open on the choir. Of course he had alot of fun with that. I always go away feeling a little better when I hear him. It's encouraging to know that God uses mightily goofballs like me! He also did something unique. When they took the offering for him he gave it back to our church plus a big check of his own. No wonder God blesses him so much. That is where my heart is....giving to others. I have alot to learn.

We will be traveling to Boston this Thursday, then to New Hampshire on Friday, and then home on Saturday. I know, it's a short vacation, but we aren't made of money.... The original plan was for another couple to go with us, and we women were going to the Benny Hinn crusade. (Oh, some of you are starting to steam! I mentioned the BH word! :) Anyway, the other couple's kids got sick.... Sick...we were going to a HEALING service. Okay....so that's only ironic to me. I said I was a goofball. So, anyway, I'll be there....but, I won't be there. Hey, look! I believe God can heal me whether I'm being prayed over by um....you know, the forbidden to talk about guy, or whether I'm standing in front of a t-rex skeleton at a museum. Either way....I'm good. I'm disappointed, because he doesn't come this way often, but, I'll live.

I'm glad to be going to New Hampshire because I'll be seeing old friends from my old church, from the few brief years we lived there. We'll be having a BBQ. Don't know whether hubby will be doing his comedy act for all. That would be fun! :) My girlfriend and I each have a kid that the other has never met. And teens that need to be re-united!

It is 12:48 am on Wednesday, July 26th. May God Bless everyone that reads this blog.