And guess what?
It wasn't! :)
Oh mylanta.
So this happened last weekend:
While I was driving to Pittsburgh and back, but that's a whole other blog experience, LOL!
Winter arrived!!!! Porch bushes about 4' tall...
Shoulda brought the grill inside!!!!
My flag hook in the sidewalk garden....
And yes, that's about a 4 foot hill behind it from shoveling! There's a sidewalk under there... someplace!!!!
And the snowblower.... totally Dave's job, and there are certain times when gender separation of jobs works for me! :)
So I got to visit Duquesne University and Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania last weekend. Both are beautiful!
And I visited some old churches and TWO OF THEM were unlocked.
That always thrills me when church doors are unlocked because I grew up in Rochester, NY in a time where church doors were never locked.... and I loved slipping into the old cathedral (before they messed it up with a crazy expensive remodel) and praying. Always in the back, to the left side. Isn't it funny how we gravitate to a certain spot in church?
Now I sit more eclectically. But back then I was a poor kid from a downtrodden family and I didn't feel right sitting in front with the normals.... kids' heads are like that, sometimes.
Now if I sit in the back it's because I'd rather be that widow, giving of her need... or that man, quietly in the back, asking God's forgiveness. Or that guest at the party, taking a back seat purposely.
I forget that too often, and it's a good thing to remember!
In Catholic churches there are often votive lights where you can light a candle and it's a reminder to the congregation that someone needs prayer.
Points of light. I love that. The reminders to pray for others...
And there was a coffee shop. We always explore churches, cemeteries and coffee shops, the THREE Cs!!!!!
The White Rabbit Cafe in Greensburg, PA.
SO STINKIN' CUTE!!!!!!
The perfect macchiato!!!! And look how cute this place is....
And we drove 350 miles back, through the storm, but we kind of skirted the edge of it until we got into NY state... and then the lake effect squalls got us, but we made it.
Did you know that the interior Pennsylvania roads go through lots of mountains!!!!
Well now you know!
So that's my story for this past week, a great trip, lovely friends, no one died.... and then two feet of snow fell at my house.
#truestory.
Multi-published, award-winning author Ruth Logan Herne loves adventures and someday she'll tell you about the TWO GUYS who rescued her when the mini-van went perpendicular to the road and there were ditches on either side.... Romance Heroes!!!! Find Ruthy at ruthloganherne.com or on facebook or Twitter!
