Virtual Coffee Hour

 Link for this week's service is here.

Since we can't gather after worship to catch up on each other's doings, here is a sample of what might be said in coffee hour.

Tore and Alice celebrated their anniversary by putting in the vegetable garden. The space reserved for the squash family will be a labour of discovery. I know there are three butternut squash plants because Khim gave them to me. For the others, zucchini, cucumber, etc. who knows. I had started them on the windowsill and then the cat knocked over the seed tray! The seedlings are now in the ground and I wait to see what's what.

Linda planted nasturtiums in the back bed at the church. They will look lovely spreading over the earth and bearing bright flowers. Just so you know, Linda is not exclusive about her gardening at SPPC. There are at least five areas that could do with a hand,

so if your green thumb is itching, call Linda at 250 656-7858 or email her at linda.g.cliff@gmail.com

I hear Irene has a surfeit of rhubarb pies. You might want to arrange a coffee date in the park with her this week.

Our university students have finished exams for this term. Benjamin is taking summer courses. Max is getting ready for his last co-op placement and Rebekah is continuing with her job in the doctor's office. Peter has school for a few more weeks, but is getting in lots and lots of baseball practice. If restrictions loosen, he might even get to play a game against another team.

The entire Smith family is vaccinated, including Abigail. She is finishing up grade three and looking forward to a visit with Felicity this summer.

Thanks to the kindness of the grocery store who supplied chicken manure in small batches and a neighbour who dug a trench, Gladys has a thriving patch of rhubarb. She has had three pickings and looks forward to more. If you go by her place and wonder about her mental state, she is not talking to herself. She's talking to the world's most affectionate cat.

Roy and Dorothy report their teenaged grandchildren are booked for a vaccine this coming week.

Aarol and Ken have forwarded their new address in Calgary. They are happy with their move but sorry not to have had a chance to have one last meal with the "out to lunch bunch."

So there you have it. I've made the rounds of the hall. The kitchen staff is shooing us out so they can do the dishes and put away the extra food. Have a good week, everyone.

No idea what this bush is called but it is blooming in front of SPPC.

. . . not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Hebrews 10:25 NIV