Lazy Sunday and Memories

I have been enjoying this weekend and am already looking forward to our three-day weekend, coming up. It is hard to wrap my mind around the end of summer, however! Time goes much too fast.

Labor Day weekend always brings memories of my old hometown. Millersport, Ohio, hosts an annual Sweet Corn Festival every year. It runs Thursday through Saturday of Labor Day weekend.  I was in marching band, in high school, and we marched in the Sweet Corn Festival parade.  The local Lion's Club started the festival years and years ago (1946).  All local service clubs participate, and we all looked forward to working in our school class's booth.  Juniors always had a candy apple booth and seniors had a steak sandwich booth. We earned service hours (and so did our parents) that helped pay for our senior class trip. (My senior class trip was to Washington, D.C. and New York City.)  If you and your parents had earned enough service hours, the trip cost nothing. If you and your folks didn't work, then you had to pay if you went.  Needless to say, most of us didn't have to pay for the trip, thanks to the money we earned in our booths.

I grew up going to the Methodist Church. Our church had a booth at the festival, with home made noodles. They were SO good.  The Lion's Club had the sweet corn booth. A bell would ring every time a batch of corn was ready and people would run to get in line for hot corn on the cob. It was thrown into a 'trough' full of melted butter. The butter would drip down your chin and down your arms.... yum.  There was also a doughnut booth, fresh-made on-site.  My dad always ended up working late, helping to close down for the night. He (and others) would bring home a cardboard box full of cooked/buttered corn that had been left over. It might be midnight, but we would all be eating corn on the cob from that cardboard box. Gosh those were good times.

The Sweet Corn Festival continues to this day, and they are preparing for next weekend.  I haven't been back for it in years and years, but my sister gets over there every couple of years. It has changed, as have the faces, but many traditions continue.  They have a website:  http://www.sweetcornfest.com/  The Lion's Club is a wonderful organization, doing good things for local communities wherever they have chapters. They take your old eye glasses and see that people in need get them.  You can find donation boxes around, for old eyeglasses. Look for them and support your local Lion's Club!

I made BLTs for our breakfast this morning, but added an egg. It was a nice change and sure tasted good. We both like BLTs (bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich).  I am making BBQ beef brisket for our dinner.  The laundry is nearly done.  I got in the pool this morning for a short swim, after hosing down the pool deck. I also added chlorine to the pool.  Tried to coax Vinny outside, but our newest cat still doesn't want anything to do with being outside. He sits and looks out, but won't venture out. In his own time, I guess!

I hope you are having a blessed Sunday.  We go to our church's Sunday Vigil service on Saturday evenings, so get to sleep in on Sunday morning.  The sermon centered on three things this weekend.  First, that we are called to proclaim God's glory and receive salvation; second, that salvation is not for the unprepared; and third, that some people who are treated with contempt and disdain by the self-righteous, actually do have a place in God's kingdom. The gate into Heaven is a narrow one. Proclaim God's glory and be prepared for salvation!!

I have rambled on enough! Wishing you a great week ahead!! Thanks for stopping by my page! Peace, love & hugs.