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Ahhh Fresno! I had a great time meeting the brethren up there. A sizable portion of their congregation was out of town, but the small group of us present had a wonderful Sabbath together. Mr. Mora came up from the Bay area and gave a sermon on The Counsel of God - why we need it, how to go about seeking it, etc. Two other gentlemen drove up with him, and they both had interesting stories to tell. One was Mr. Millich's roommate @ Ambassador as a freshman. They both had stopped attending for years, but now have been attending LCG for about 4 or 5 years. I met a brother (who's also a brotha)from Statesboro, GA. I chastised him for not converting the entire Fresno congregation to grits, but he handled the rebuke well. Everyone was soooooo nice. After services, we sat around in a sort of semi-oval and potlucked. Food makes everything better.


The scheduled songleader was hospitalized Friday night with a possible heart attack, but he was released Sabbath morning. Turns out his heart is fine - but he has pneumonia. We (me and the Medards, who treated me like one of their kids - in a good way)went by to see the gentleman and his wife for a minute. The minute turned into several hours, by which time the Sabbath was over. We stopped back by the Medards to pick up my car and change clothes before hitting the road back to Bakersfield. "Mom & Dad" wouldn't let me leave without fixing me a couple of sandwiches, a bag of grapes, an apple turnover, and a bottle of high-quality H2O for the road. Did I mention they fixed me breakfast when I got there that morning? A nice bowl of real oatmeal, with raisins, brown sugar, sunflower seeds, grapes, coffee, milk, OJ, and an apple turnover. Needless to say, I'm going back to Fresno when I get the chance.


The Medards are an interesting couple. They are much like a certain Barbados-bound couple I know. Mrs. Medard likes to talk, and Mr. Medard doesn't say much - but when he does, it's funny! They are such an adorable couple. Mrs. Medard looks just like her brother Galyn. I mean JUST like him. Without that whole Y-chromosome thing though.


Other than that, I've been chillin' in the lab, and occasionally in the field. My allergies have been on overdrive since my first foray into the flowering test plots. Hopefully that'll change once I get back to SC.

Katrina is wreaking havoc on La & Miss. I pray that all the brethren got out in advance. Judging from the rescue missions I just saw, not all of the New Orleans residents did. I pray that they're all OK - well, as OK as one can be after losing possibly everything. Wasn't Katrina a tropical storm like a few days ago?