It is Saturday morning and we are cleaning out the cottage at Oxbow lake. There has been a flurry of packing, cleaning, vacuuming, mopping, etc. It is now 10:30a.m. and we are pretty much packed up and ready to go. It is a lovely morning, partly cloudy and seasonably warm, but not hot. We will be back home this afternoon and I'll get ready for tomorrow when I am due to lead a service for Tom and Nancy Ragle, at their home, in which they will renew their wedding vows after almost 56 years of marriage. Almost their entire family - seven children and significant others - will be there, all of whom I know but several I have not seen for decades. The most famous of these children is Bill Koch, Nancy's son by a previous marriage, who won the Silver Medal in Cross Country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, the first American to medal in that sport. He won several other "firsts" before retiring from skiing. After the ceremony, we will all have supper together at a local restaurant that has a private dining room.
Tomorrow morning is a Union Service of five UCC churches that will take place in-person at the Dummerston Congregational church, outside if it is not raining. There will be a choir, but we will sing masked. So, tomorrow will be a full. day!
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