Good Weather, Bad Weeds, and a Joke

The weekend weather has been gorgeous. Working outside in the yard in the coolness of spring makes me forget about the scorching heat that’s just around the corner. It was actually fun hanging out with hubby as we pulled weeds, trimmed branches, pulled weeds, spread compost, pulled weeds, fixed the fence where oldest daughter’s dogs regularly escape to freedom when they come to visit, and pulled weeds. Yep, we had a lot of weeds because we had a lot of neglected flower beds. It felt so good to get them all cleaned out! I can’t wait to start planting flowers. But that will have to wait for a couple of days while I finish our tax forms; inside. Sigh!

Our eight year old grandson is in a joke telling phase. I’m thinkin’ that it’s a developmental thing, you know, when kids actually start getting jokes and want to join in on the fun. I know this is probably a phase but I also know it lasts a lifetime for some folks, sometimes a good thing, sometimes not. Anyway, here’s the joke you can tell your kids or grandkids and they might get a kick out of it (no pun intended).

Why isn’t Cinderella very good at soccer? (I guessed it was because she had a glass slipper – wrong). The answer is (and if I could, I’d write it upside down like they do in the professional joke books): She keeps running away from the ball! Ha! Ha! Ha! (I gave it three ha’s).

Thanks be to God, who gave me such wonderful gifts this weekend; a beautiful day with my husband, the sunshine, the delight of seeing two cardinals land on a tree branch in my garden only a few feet from me, cold water to quench my thirst, fellowship with friends at Starbucks, contemporary Christian songs that touch my heart at church and on the radio, pizza and hugs at CR, a silly joke that made me laugh (a little), and for the privilege of belonging to your glorious kingdom. Amen.