Almost a year!

According to my most recent email from WordPress I’m about to celebrate my one year anniversary… for this website that is. So where did that year go? I feel that I am in the same boat as I was last year… time is still moving faster than I am… but today was kind of a slow day.

Last night I was working on a manuscript. I finished it a few weeks ago…. finished, save the last few pages and a title. Word Alive Press’s deadline for their 2022 Braun Book Awards is tomorrow and I was moving along and didn’t want to stop. I emailed it away at 5:40 a.m. So that’s done. Not that I was tired today or anything.

What’s everyone been up to? We’re at the time of year when some days it’s winter and some days it’s not. Yesterday was rather odd. We left for church and it was blowing, and snowing and very cold. We arrived at church and just about blew away. That was at 1:00 pm. By the time we left church an hour later the wind had died down, the sun was shining and the snow that had fallen was beginning to melt. Welcome to Essex County!

Is anyone wondering why the Weilers were going to church at 1:00 p.m.? I looked back through my blog posts and the only mention I’d made of a gas leaking problem in Wheatley was on June 19th. We had to be out of the church because a highly flammable gas was leaking into the basement of a restaurant a block away. We were disappointed. We had just come out of the lockdown. We couldn’t be in our building because the power was off. We did get back in for a while after that.

On August 26 there was a major explosion in downtown Wheatley. Wheatley Baptist Church is is just inside the evacuation area that means that our building is not accessible. On the day of the explosion people had to leave their homes and they have not been allowed back into them. Most of them had (months later) a very short time to enter their homes, assess damage and remove some items. Because they had to leave so quickly many of the homes are damaged beyond repair. They were left open to the weather and animals. Pipes burst. Food rotted in freezers and fridges.

Since we can’t use our church we have been meeting at a church in Leamington on Sunday afternoons. We are learning first hand that the church is not a building… like the old Sunday School song says: The Church is the people.