Day 2

OK. Day 1 was a breeze. 5.50pm, brushed hair, grabbed house keys, and strolled across to St Peter’s, our parish church, in good time for the 6.00pm Eucharist. Of course, it wasn’t such a breeze for our wonderful priest who had to curtail a planned post-Holy Week day off in order to indulge (no pun intended) our eccentric project. Still, it was cosy in the chapel with just the 3 of us. With his normal outstanding sense of timing, Robert appeared just in time for the actual bread and wine. Having partaken, he immediately left, but his presence swelled our lay congregation, at least temporarily, to 3.

Today, though, like a foretaste of things to come, a few minor problems have presented themselves. Although St Peter’s has its regular 6.00pm Eucharist this evening and (hair brushing and house key grabbing nothwithstanding) things should once again be pretty simple, there is the small matter of the 6.00pm conference call . Also, since we’re on the road ealy tomorrow heading to a meeting in Battle Creek, MI and then after that straight on to Cincinatti, OH for 3 days, there’s the small matter of the dog sitter who’s meant to be coming to pick up the dog some time between 6.00 and 6.30pm. Hmm. Well, I guess conference calls can be missed or joined in later, and dog sitters can be called and asked if they can reschedule a pick up time, but already I’m beginning to sense that this daily bread stuff isn’t going to be as easy as we first thought.

And from tomorrow morning we’re on the road. That’s when things will really start to get interesting.

So far, though, 1 for 1.