Thunder And Lightning...In Winter?

This has been an odd day. For starters I'm having lingering werewolf attack since last night I went to bed at 10:30 p.m. and by 12:00 a.m.I was awake again and I had began to feel the pressures of level 5 homework and not making large inroads into it... so I came downstairs and spun yarn till 2 a.m. Meanwhile the truck has conked out again because of a bad starter this time.  So Teapot spent his morning with a friend under the truck replacing the starter with a new one. I made a pot of red lentil soup with pre-cooked honey garlic sausage, carrots, red and yellow peppers and tons of garlic and pepper and a little tomato to flavour it up.  By the time Teapot and his friend were finished with the truck they were ready for a bowl of hot soup and some home made bread. Meanwhile I am teaching Confirmation class to a 13 year old gal who comes to my house each Sunday afternoon for lessons. It has been a few years since I have done confirmation classes. In some ways it feels strange to have the reigns of church business in my hands again after being away from it for almost three years. Still, I feel I am doing my part.  I had stepped away from organized religion for a few years because I found that the work of the church and the work of Christianity don't always go hand in hand... it is difficult to be a leader in the church when sometimes you just want to stand up and yell... "Hey, this is not right!!!" Too political, too organized, and not really always the Christian way taken... sometimes churches can be mean to people and they sometimes can be thoughtless, and hurtful... I'm not always sure I want to be a part of that.... Sometimes the way of loving care and thoughtfulness are not the ways of the church... I'll leave it there... my opinions are mine... and I really don't want to influence anyone except for the better through action... and only then when the person has decided to be influenced of their own free will... then it is not coercion.  I hate coercion!

The oddest thing about today though, without a doubt, was the weird storm that blew through here a little while ago. Thunder, lightening, hail.... it was just like something you would see on a mid-July day... not something you see this time of the year.  I don't think I have ever seen a mid-winter thunder storm. And let me tell you, the lightning bolts rained down in a ferocity unexpected. With the ozone depleted, and water tables disappearing, with plagues of Pine Beetles and dry summers, with wars and red Northern Lights and Dec 12 and the end of the Mayan calender pending..... it all seems a little too Armagedonish for my liking.  Makes me think I should build an ark or something.

So here it is supper is going to be ready in about five minutes. (A more strenuous gourmet supper you have never seen... spaghetti and sauce from a bottle with a bagged salad on the side... oh so tough to make.. snork!) The day has almost ended and I am happy to say that I finished the fibre that I started at the Blueberry a few weeks ago... 450 metres of 3-ply alpaca merino blend grey yarn and about 75 metres of 2-ply of the same stuff... washed and hanging to dry... now I can really start the level 5 and 3 homework again with a clear mind. Tomorrow I will be starting TPI.. oh joy oh bliss... my favorite!

I hope you've had a lovely Sunday with no thunder and lightning... unless you like that kind of thing...