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<\/a>— 1 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Prayer request.<\/strong> Edda, my black cat, didn’t come home last night and we’re worried sick so I’d really appreciate it if you’d pray that she would make her way home. Please and thank you. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n <\/a>— 2 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Things to donate this season.<\/strong> My mom shared this top 10 list of things food banks need but won’t ask for<\/a> and I thought it was good enough to share. This is usually the season when needs increase exponentially so if you can donate any of those items, I’m sure your food bank will thank you profusely.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 3 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The required Quick Take about weather now that baseball season is over.<\/strong> It’s been overcast and cool here for the last few days. As a native northern Californian transplanted to the desert, I am positively giddy. I miss living in a place with 4 distinct seasons — something that southern California lacks.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 4 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Christmas Eve music.<\/strong> My church choir is talking about doing the Christmas section of Handel’s “Messiah” on Christmas Eve and I’m incredibly excited. I haven’t performed it in 12 years and I’ve missed it. I used to do the “You-Sing-It” Messiah with my mom almost every year in high school and college so I know the music quite well. There’s also a community Messiah sing with the orchestra that my church choir director conducts for and I’m pretty sure I’ll be singing at one of those performances. (There are two of them.)<\/p>\n <\/a>— 5 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Death marches.<\/strong> The weather is cool enough here that Daniel and I can take walks in the afternoon — a good thing because my mutant death cold is wiping me out enough that I’m going back to sleep as soon as I get Daniel on the school bus. It wears Daniel out to be walking 2-3 miles and it clears my head. I referred to the walk jokingly as a death march once and my mother-in-law perpetuated the name. Oh well…<\/p>\n <\/a>— 6 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n New series of murder mysteries.<\/strong> Someone donated a bag of books to the Little Free Library that my mother-in-law runs and in it was all of the murder mysteries by Maggie Sefton. They center around a yarn shop in the fictitious town of Fort Conner, Colorado. (I’m totally aware that “Fort Conner” = “Fort Collins”.) I read the first one in the period of a couple days and am into the second one. <\/p>\n <\/a>— 7 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n “Say ‘good night’, Gracie.”<\/strong> My eyes are crossing so I need to sign off. Have a lovely weekend, y’all.<\/p>\n For more Quick Takes, visit Kelly (our guest-hostess-with-the-mostest) at This Ain’t The Lyceum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" — 1 — Prayer request. Edda, my black cat, didn’t come home last night and we’re worried sick so I’d really appreciate it if you’d pray that she would make her way home. Please and thank you. \ud83d\ude42 — 2 … Continue reading