Go back and read this post for the story behind "Five Small Things Friday".
For this week, here is my list:
1. Sight: Covers Folded Back On My Bed At The Grandparents'
2. Hearing: "Power In The Blood"
3. Smell: Vanilla Perfume
4. Taste: Blueberries
5. Touch: Hug From Lindy
The stories behind the list:
1. On Thursday nights, I go up to The Grandparents' and spend the night. The Grandmother goes to the hair salon early Friday morning to have her hair done, and it makes it easier for her if someone can come fix her and The Grandfather's breakfast for them. I get to do that, so I just go ahead and spend the night Thursday so I'm there early. We've been having Bible School every night at Victory Rd. this week, so when I got there last night it was a little late, and The Grandparents had already gone to bed. But when I went into the room where I sleep, the big decorative pillows had been taken off of the bed, and the covers and sheets had been folded back in an inviting fashion.
2. Sunday morning during the music service, one of the songs we sang was "Power In The Blood". It had been so long since I'd heard that wonderful old song, and we sang it in the old Southern-gospel convention school style that I love.
3. Last night at Bible school, I got to visit a little bit with a young woman who had recently joined Victory Rd. She and her husband seem like a kind, humble couple, and their little girl is just a little doll! She must have had some kind of vanilla-scented perfume on, because I kept catching pleasant whiffs of vanilla while we were talking.
4. One of the older men in our church invited us to come pick blueberries at his niece's house this week. They have a blueberry 'orchard' and there are so many berries they can't get them all, and they are just falling off the bushes and wasting. So Bro. G. has taken a few different church folks out there to pick. Wednesday morning Mom, Trissy, and I went with him and it was so much fun! He rode with us to show us the way out there, and on the way he told us stories about who lived in this or that house we passed, or who used to own that land and what they grew on it, or why this road was named such a funny name, etc. Then while we picked berries, he told us about his time in the Army, his and his wife's travels when he worked for an oil company, and his time when he was younger and worked for a bowling alley, re-setting the bowling pins!
Those blueberries were something else! The berries were huge, and there were so many of them, you could just reach in among the leaves and pull off handfuls of berries. And they were so SWEET! It was hard not to eat too many!
5. Lindy loves kittens. Monday night when two brothers who had come to Bible school were getting picked up afterwards, the woman who was picking them up had brought her kitten with her for some reason. I wasn't over there, but Lindy saw it and got to pet it a little bit before they left. She was so excited, she came running across the big room to give me a hug and tell me about it!
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