Friday, November 16, 2018

November 16 – “Batch/Flock/Gaggle …?”


Countdown to Bionically-empowered Implantdom … eleven days.

We did get our batch of turkeys the other day.  Or would that be flock of turkeys?  A gaggle?  A gobble?  What do you call a group of ten turkeys?  Does that change when they are all stuffed into one fridge awaiting Fry Day, which happens on Tuesday of next week?  Ah, such questions that confound the minds of scholars everywhere.  It all just makes me hungry.  OK, wait a minute.  I can’t stand it.  I have to go look it up ………
There it is.  A group of turkeys can be called any of the following: gang, dole, dule, possee, brood, flock, raffle.  That’s crazy.  But let’s get the official word here.  Are you ready for this one?  A group of turkeys is technically called a “rafter.”  Wait.  Why?  I thought that was part of the house.  Sigh.  Ain’t words grand?

Speaking of hungry, I made a quick trip over to WalMart yesterday.  We were out of Kleenex and Chris still has a more than adequate supply of snot to regurgitate.  Is that what happens when it comes out of your nose, or is that one reserved for second-hand mouth-originated extract?  While there she had me pick up some cookies for home group and some crescent rolls.  We’ll use the rolls next week, but she had a coupon for the purchase of three such products.  A whole dollar off.  Gotta use that one.  I even found a few bottles of one of the spices she needed for the turkey rub next week.  Hero here. 

Now you would think such a tiny shopping list would have me back home in a milli-second-ish jiffy.  Not so much.  See, I ran into Doug, a guy from church who just returned from a vacation in Hawaii.  And let’s just say … Doug had a wonderful time in Hawaii.  We talked for a long time.  Great guy.  He has one of the biggest hearts I know, and he enjoys blessing people one at a time in very specific ways.  Glad to have him as part of the Seaside version of the Body of Christ.

Well, I have to cut this one short.  We are heading to Cypress, Texas, where I am performing a wedding this weekend.  Rehearsal at 4:30 today.  Spend the night in a hotel up there.  Wedding tomorrow night.  Back home for a bit of sleep before church tomorrow.  Here we go …

Psalms 115:1 says, “Not to us, O Lord, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness.”

Father, we invite you to ride with us on this Texas journey.  And please, heal Chris quickly.  Amen.

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