Things

Some things happened today, Sunday May 18, 2025:

*I remembered Mount St Helens (45 years ago today) and being on a train the next day, going to a singing engagement. There were inches of volcanic ash laying all over inside the train. Oh - and there were masks. Everybody had to wear a mask.

 *I found fisherman Stuart while he and another fisherman were loading bunches of snapping lobsters into a white van. It was very dramatic.

*I went to church, and the music director's wife hugged me. Then the music director himself invited me to sing in the choir again.

*I walked to the Lelant train station and waved in a begging way to the train to stop for me... but the conductor barreled right on by. Rude!

*A young lady who was also begging the train to stop was a new visitor to St Ives, and didn't know what to do. When trains don't stop for you when they should, it feels like they don't like you, Apparently we were unliked, so she and I dashed uphill to catch the bus. The bus driver stopped for us. On the bus we found out that both of us would like to bring our loved ones to St Ives, so it was fun talking about how we could do this.

*When I got to the cottage I made grilled chicken and vegetables for dinner. It was crowded in the tiny kitchen because there is a huge air fryer on the counter which I will NEVER USE and found to be cluttering up the place. But the grilled chicken and vegetables were good.

*I saw Jean! Jean was lovely, and remembered me, and her daughter made us cups of tea which we enjoyed with the 3 delicious treats from the Yellow Canary which I brought. There was a cinnamon bun, an apple and blueberry sweet pasty, and a chocolate brownie. We cut each of the three treats into three pieces so we could each have a taste of all. The chocolate brownie was the best, very American and moist. The cinnamon bun, however, had very little cinnamon in it so it was scarcely worth calling 'cinnamon '.

*Those were only part of the people I found and the things I did. There will be more tomorrow, and I feel assured that the weather will be just as blue of sky as it has been the whole week. 

*Oh! And at church, the Vicar preached a wonderful sermon. I was thrilled to hear him say that as Jesus was walking toward Calvary, and as the men drove the nails into His already wounded body, He was thinking of healing OUR wounds. 

See you along the Way!

the SconeLady