Whew!

Busy day! I was at Gerry's at 9:00 and worked as fast as my little arms and legs would go. Got a second coat on the guest bath, helped him move furniture back, and then wired in the garage lights that I started on Monday before I got electrocuted. The electrician found and fixed the wiring mistake an earlier individual made, so I could finish that task.
Grabbed some lunch and then headed out to Trilogy for a quick job. Trilogy is another age-restricted community (55+) but in a whole different world. VERY upscale. This house was probably about 1500 square feet, based on the parts I saw, and had all the amenities. The lot also included a casita - the Spanish word for little house (in the desert). It's a detatched structure, usually separated from the main house by a courtyard, and typically includes a bedroom, bath and sitting area. It's a guest house minus a kitchen, and runs about 700 square feet, more or less.
This old, frail and failing lady has a home in Cheyenne Wyoming and this one here to winter in. Just her. She wanted three dead trees removed, a tree in front trimmed, and spraying for weeds. I talked to her about it yesterday, made the arrangements and did the work this afternoon. It was mid- to upper-80's and bright sun, but it was nice to be outside.
So nice, in fact, that I came home and DRANK (you can guess what) and then went down to the course and played the back 9 again. Lowered my score and didn't have any disaster holes. Lipped out putts on two holes. So I think I'm making progress. At least I'm sufficiently encouraged to keep at it for now.

Last night our executive committee met and decided to move ahead with a relocation. If the details can be worked out we'll begin meeting at Cutting Edge Dance on the 30th of this month (the Sunday after Easter). At first I wondered how it would work out, but having seen it I think it's going to be a great site as a transition between a home and a more permanent location.
Being in a public space means we have the opportunity to do some advertising. We think that will help us grow. Lots of logistical issues to deal with now, but that's OK. This is a very strong group of people - good heads and good hearts - so we'll work everything out. I strongly believe that logistical matters are all solvable and all relatively simple. It's the interpersonal stuff that cripples a ministry. So I am very optimistic and looking forward to this next stage in Pathway Bible Church's young life.

Prepare some relatively official looking signs and take them with you to tape up on the inside of the stall next time you use a public restroom:
"Toilet camera is for research use only."

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Friday was the worst. The worst day in human history - past, present and future. It was the day the Son of God was put to death for our sin.
The trials continued into the morning hours, and shortly after sunrise Christ was presented by Pilate to the crowd. The people demanded his crucifixion, refusing to accept Barabbas' crucifixion instead.
As was the custom, Christ was made to carry his own cross out to the site just beyond the city walls where crucifixions took place. As the Son of God walked through the city streets the crowd mocked him, spit on him, and some stepped forward to hit him.
Once Christ and the two thieves arrived at the site, a place known as Golgotha, they were nailed to their crosses and raised up into the air. It was 9:00 a.m. when the crucifixion began. The soldiers gambled for his clothing, the crowds and Pharisees mocked him, and the disciples watched in horror as the One they believed to be the Messiah hung in humiliation on a Roman cross.
At noon an eclipse spread over the land. Just before 3:00 the Pharisees expressed concern over the time it was taking for the three men to die. Crucifixion is a tortuous death and it can take a day or more before the victim succumbs. Jewish law requires that a body be buried the same day that death occurs, but because the next day, beginning at sundown, was the Sabbath, the work of burial would be prohibited. It was decided that the legs of each victim should be broken in order to hasten their death; they would be unable to push themselves up to relieve the pressure on their diaphragms, thus quickly suffocating. But Christ had already given up his spirit to death. So when they came to him the soldiers drove a spear under his ribs to prove to the crowd he was indeed dead.
At 3:00 each of the bodies was taken down from the crosses. Joseph of Aramithea made his family tomb available for burial, a tomb that had as yet been unused. The women didn't have time to properly prepare Christ's body for burial, a lengthy process that involved washing, anointing with spices and carefully wrapping it. They only had time to quickly wrap Christ's body in a shroud and get it in Joseph's tomb before sundown.
At the insistence of the religious leaders Pilate had guards posted at the closed and sealed tomb to prevent anyone from stealing the body. Christ had declared that he would rise from the dead, a preposterous notion. The risk was that his followers would steal his body and claim that he had risen. The guards, under strict orders to protect the tomb, would insure that could not happen.
By sundown it was all over. The crowds had returned to their homes for the Sabbath meal. The disciples undoubtedly went back to Bethany, completely defeated and hopeless now that the one they had been convinced was the promised Messiah lay dead in a borrowed tomb.