Saturday, September20, 2025

For those so inclined, The Daily Office,m Morning Prayer - John Coleridge Patteson, Bishop of Melanesia, and his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 Ember Day

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I woke after ten hours of sound sleep.😴😊✔️ 

The weather forecast.☀️🫠

Another good, tho surprising, number.👍🩺❤️

The budget took another hit yesterday. The agreement when I moved here was that my brother and/or his family would take care of lawn maintenance. Since Carol passed the duty has been the responsibility of my brother, who has consistantly dropped the ball. My brother Don's granddaughter and her husband (whom I suspect is spending through my brother's Social Security like a kid in a candy store) decided to attempt keeping up with the property on their own with the riding mower and a push mower. They did an abismal job, so I called the lawn service that used to do the cutting, edging, and clipping removal. For my portion of the property, the end lot, it's going to run me $90.00 a month. As with most independent service providers in Angleton Marvins is a cash only business, so I had to go to the ATM at Buc-ees to draw $100.00 from my checking account. I'd prefer they have the ability to swip my debit card on their phone. Everytime I have to use cash in this town it takes and additional $8.00 from my account in ATM and bank charges.