This is a special day on our street.  In fact, I lovingly refer to my neighbors as "the street people"....so many great neighbors and most of us have lived on the street for at least 20+ years!  Well, only on July 7th are three of us "girls" the same age.  Because on July 8th the birthday of the third person goes up a year and on this day one of the girls catches up with us.  Did you follow that?  Anyway, we try to get together and celebrate the fact we are all the same age for 24 hours. 

This morning we took a four mile walk on our local trail and then enjoyed coffee at The Farmhouse.  This is a local establishment right off the trail that has a lovely garden area for patrons to sit an enjoy the outdoors during nice weather.  It was a great time to share with friends, who are also neighbors, the blessings of birthdays.

Now I return to cleaning my house and getting ready for the rest of the week.  I also had a wonderful surprise yesterday.  My brother and his family are on vacation this week with their final destination being Pittsburgh for the wedding.  He called me late afternoon yesterday and told me that they were in West Virginia and their GPS was sending them through my area to get to Hershey, PA.  Boy, was I surprised!  So, I hurried and changed and met them for dinner at Cracker Barrel about 15 minutes from my house!  That was a great way to begin to celebrate the weekend.....knowing family is close because of our event!

I continue to ask for prayers for the weather.  My mom has always said, "if it's important to you, it's important to God."  So, I have to admit....I'd love for the day to be bright and sunny for Saturday and Sunday with the activties and events planned.  Would you pray with us?  Thank you so much, my friends.  I hope you are enjoying these little blogs....God bless!