Deck the Halls (and Balconies too)Today was the semi-annual chapel cleaning and decorating day. We do this for Advent and Lent. I’m not sure WHY it is always such a mess. This is perplexing to me. I didn’t realize that this was a CWOC/PWOC project. It’s a good thing I showed up. ::snort:: We had way less folks show up today but we got done QUICKER than usual. Go figure. (CWOC = Catholic Women of the Chapel/ PWOC = ::guess:: Protestant Women of the Chapel - I know I tried to come up with catchy names in our first thee assignments for Women's ministry but women in the military chapel want to use these titles. LOL)
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I was given the yucky job of dusting and vacuuming the balcony. I didn’t realize that the balcony was USED. Our Protestant ushers have strict orders to keep children out of the balcony. Our services aren’t big enough to NEED that seating…but ah ha…the Catholics have only one Sunday service and they USE the balcony…in fact it seems that there are some youth that like the back corner…they are so BUSTED….because I found trash you would not believe…gross stuff…..and then I found a DEAD MOUSE. I was told to vacuum it up. I wasn’t about to touch it – so I sucked it up. ::ugh:: I may not be able to sleep tonight. I was so grossed out by this that I didn’t even take a photo. ::snort::
Our chapel is old - and has gorgeous wood work throughout...it shines tonight
I have a funny about the Christmas Tree. The Catholic lady who was heading up the decorating said that Catholics don't use Christmas trees in their church decorating and that having it is a compromise with the Protestants. I laughed and told her that every year we get complaints about having a tree in the sanctuary. We discussed not putting the tree up, but went ahead as we knew we'd be sure to hear about it if we didn't.....Really, Protestants refuse to be pigeon holed. There are those who LOVE the tree in the sanctuary and those who hate it. Mike put the tree up. The lady that usually decorates forgot to come today...so we had to use what we had to decorate the tree. Kathy, said that these streaming ribbons are the new thing in Christmas decor. We had to convince Mike. ::snort::
Oh, another decorating funny. I was about to throw away a strand of lights that "didn't work", when Kathy informed me they weren't plugged in. ::snort::
Mike and I went and tried a new to me Mexican Café for lunch. It was “pretty good”. Surprisingly, I’ve not found a Mexican restaurant here that I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE….I’ll have to keep looking.
Jared had CAP compass training today. Jamin watched the younger ones until he got called into work. Mike and I were able to go home. Mike and Nolan went to help a couple who used to attend chapel move today….and then picked up Jared so he could help as well.
We’ve spent the evening making ice-cream, giving baths etc. Preparing for SUNDAY!
9 comments:
De'Etta, God bless you for cleaning the balcony! Ewwwww!
Do you have an Alfonso's in your area? When we lived in San Antonio they had THE BEST Mexican food.
I'm glad to hear you and Mike were able to get some time together.
Vacuum up the MOUSE? Who in the world gets the lovely job of changing the vacuum bag? Or worse, perhaps it's a bagless vacuum?
Blech.
We had Christmas trees in our Catholic church in Florida. Last year our military chapel had a tree on the altar but this year it has been placed in the fellowship hall and is being decorated between services today with chrismons made by members of both congregations
Ooops, I published too soon. PWOC is a name that is military wide... but the preferred name for the Catholic women is MCCW (Military Council of Catholic Women) - because they are associated with a national group of Catholic women by a similar name
LOL Well Renee, in every Air Force base we've been assigned to in 12 years they advertise as "CWOC". I know there is a MCCW - because I've seen the national posters but in the chapel blurbs they always call themselves the CWOC. I wonder why?
The treee in the fellowship hall sounds like a good idea to me.
Kristine - You are RIGHT - who is going to empty that bag?????? I was soo, soo sickened by this but none of the men offered to come dispose of it and I wasn't going to touch it.
Lovely job on the chapel.
Gross about the mouse, but it was probably pretty "dry" by then and not quite so discusting about vacuuming him up. I'd be more grossed out by all the food and trash!
We have got to start making homemade ice cream. I so love the idea of that.
The whole cleaning thing was gross - oh the garbage. Father Jim told me today that he thought I'd earned some egg nog. OK - I'm fairly naive and didn't catch what he meant until about 30 minutes later when someone commented about "non-alcoholic of course". ::snort::
ugh..... what a mess up there and a mouse... egads!
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