[Magdalen] around our house

[Ginga Wilder]

Thanks for Fleener news, Judy.  I send my gratitude to Bill and to you for
64 years of serving God through The Episcopal Church.  No doubt that
service will continue in some way.  You two are the hippest octogenarians
I've been happy to call friends!  The pink streak, the bright yellow
Renegade - how very wonderful!  May God be with you in your next adventures
- wishing that may include a trip to Summerville.

Much love to each of you,
Ginga

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 8:10 AM, Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com> wrote:

>  It is still quite cold and blustery in Western Michigan.  Our congregation
> is in its third search in ten years after a 5 year and a 2 1/2 year
> incumbency.  Neither priest gave us much.  We are an aging congregation in
> the rust belt.  Now we are searching for a 3/4 time priest.
>
> Construction is booming in the center of Muskegon.  There are 6 projects
> visible from my window.  In 1971 the center of the city was leveled to
> build an enclosed mall.  The mall was dismantled in the late 90s and
> downtown Muskegon became a desert.  We live in one of the few buildings
> left standing, a YMCA rehabbed into apartments and then condos.  Across
> from us is a development of townhouses.  11 at this date all occupies
> except two under construction.  Nest to us is an 80 unit building with some
> senior housing some market rate.  Two other larger building opening soon,
> one and 8 story bank building and the other a 6 story. Because our
> population grows in the summer, the city erected 8 small shed/shacks,
> called chalets to rent to small retailer for the summer.  This was so
> successful last summer, four more are being built.
>
> Bill and I (but I picked) just bought a Jeep Renegade, bright yellow.  I
> now have a pink streak in my hair.  I must be 80.  I am.
>
> On Easter Day Bill will leave active ministry,  He has been serving a
> congregation 50 miles from here as an every Sunday supply.  They are
> planning a wonderful celebration.  It is the time of his 87th birthday, his
> 64th anniversary of his ordination and his leaving this congregation.  All
> four of our sons are planning to be there.  One did express doubts, he
> posited that this might be an April Fool's joke.
>
>
> --
> Judy Fleener, ObJN,SSH
> Western Michigan
>