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Firsts for me

Thursday I went to the drive-in alone and saw Aquaman. In addition, I had no radio so relied on others to hear through open windows and skylight so I missed some dialog. It was still fun and a beautiful night under a full moon. Then Easter Sunday I was alone after church. It was a fine, beautiful spring day and I enjoyed it but again, I was alone. Another first on Easter Sunday.

Home movies

Keeping in touch with the babies.

Letter of Lentulus

The letter

The purported letter reads, in translation:

Lentulus, the Governor of the Jerusalemites to the Roman Senate and People, greetings. There has appeared in our times, and there still lives, a man of great power (virtue), called Jesus Christ. The people call him prophet of truth; his disciples, son of God. He raises the dead, and heals infirmities. He is a man of medium size (statura procerus, mediocris et spectabilis); he has a venerable aspect, and his beholders can both fear and love him. His hair is of the colour of the ripe hazel-nut, straight down to the ears, but below the ears wavy and curled, with a bluish and bright reflection, flowing over his shoulders. It is parted in two on the top of the head, after the pattern of the Nazarenes. His brow is smooth and very cheerful with a face without wrinkle or spot, embellished by a slightly reddish complexion. His nose and mouth are faultless. His beard is abundant, of the colour of his hair, not long, but divided at the chin. His aspect is simple and mature, his eyes are changeable and bright. He is terrible in his reprimands, sweet and amiable in his admonitions, cheerful without loss of gravity. He was never known to laugh, but often to weep. His stature is straight, his hands and arms beautiful to behold. His conversation is grave, infrequent, and modest. He is the most beautiful among the children of men.

Different manuscripts vary from the foregoing text in several details; Ernst von Dobschütz enumerates the manuscripts and gives an apparatus criticus.^[6] The description agrees with the so-called Abgar picture of Jesus; it also agrees with the portrait of Jesus Christ drawn by Nicephorus, St. John Damascene, and the Book of Painters (of Mt. Athos).^[4]

A first for me.

Within 32 hours I attended a baby shower, a funeral, and a wedding reception, the entire cycle of life. That is a first for me in such a short time frame.

Yay for visiting grandboys

I'm holding Sheba. We always look for Sheba on our walks. The pool opened the earliest I've ever known it to open, April 1. This is us before I discovered life vests in the box, April 10, 2019.

To name some activities with my grandboys we had an egg hunt, picked oranges from the neighbor's tree, played on cars in the front yard, went to two library story times plus a unicorn craft event, petted Sheba when we found her in the yard, had our pictures taken by the stained glass windows, read My Turn on Earth, Good Night Moon, Hush Little Baby, My Gran, etc., checked out dinosaur and horse books, played in the pool twice, fed ducks and geese at the pond, played half a dozen games at home with J while we were the only ones awake, went to a friend's home for dinners, attended a funeral and the same day a wedding reception and danced the night away, went to church together while the parents had an overnight away, played at the library playground several times as well as the kid corner in the library, played at the tennis court playground, played on the neighbor's swing. Our Sunday to Sunday has been wonderful and memorable. They stayed overnight a few nights with friends but were mostly with me.

 Egg hunt in my back yard 8 April 2019.

 After library story time.

 Thank goodness for life vests to enjoy the water together at the pool.

 Z claimed this as his own the entire visit. He loved this car.

I'm reading My Gran on my porch to M, Z and J.

After just short of 19 years I finally know the name of this beauty.

"LIVE dense flowering ground-cover Vinca minor (Periwinkle) very cold hardy broadleaf evergreen."

Even five years of drought did not kill it off. This flower almost entirely surrounds our home and is a real joy.