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Palm Sunday

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Today is the day that Jesus entered into Jerusalem for the final week of his life. We celebrate it as Palm Sunday. Several of the Gospels talk about the crowds laying down palm leaves in front of his donkey as he rode into town that day. The Gospel of Luke talks about the people laying down their garments. As the pastor said in church this morning, can you imagine if today were "Garment Sunday" instead?  The Triumphal Entry (John 12:12-13) 12  The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13  took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out: “Hosanna! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord !’ The King of Israel!” The Triumphal Entry (Matthew 21:1-9) 21  Now when they drew near Jerusalem, and came to [ a ] Bethphage, at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2  saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt

Fleas, a Rat, and other stuff

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Well, my Sandy had her little adventure outdoors a couple of weeks ago and has been struck with fleas. She doesn't go outdoors at all if I have my way; well accept to sit on her chair in the screen porch. The chef decided to let her out in the grass for a little one day. Yup! That's all it took. A few minutes of grassy time and whammo! FLEAS!! I didn't think much about her adventure until last Sunday night when she was just scratching and biting and scratching some more. She also was afraid of certain pieces of furniture, including MY BED. Never is she afraid of my bed. She lives to sleep on it. That's when it dawned on me that she must have fleas. So, I told the chef and Sandy got a flea bath (Dawn dish detergent is great at getting rid of them) and a nice new flea collar (I get Seresto or whatever the heck it's called). She's a happy cat again. 😊 In other news, we have a rat somewhere in the trailer. Or at least we did. I hope it got out; however it got in. I