Helma’s doing better, no nausea and minimal pain.
“Food starts tasting good again,” she says. “And coffee is alright and I’m back to my old miserable self… until the next attack!”
Next step is getting the stone removed, because it doesn’t seem to be passing on its own.
ANYWAY.
Elm Park Methodist Church, where I attended a performance by the Choral Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania. My friend Gwen’s talented girls sang in the children’s groups, and I shot some video and a few pictures during the concert.
The building itself is impressive, and historic. From the church’s website:
As one of the oldest Methodist churches in this area, the Elm Park United Methodist Church traces its history to 1839, when a Methodist Class was organized in Slocum Hollow, now Scranton. The membership grew quickly. In 1841 the Village Chapel was built facing Lackawanna Avenue on what is now Adams Avenue.
The church was incorporated on September 8, 1859. After outgrowing several buildings, the congregation broke ground for the new church home on September 8, 1891. The site was a triangular piece of land known as Elm Park. After two major fires and reconstruction, a dedication service was held on December 17, 1893. In 1927, the parsonage was moved from the Linden Street side of the Sanctuary Building to Jefferson Avenue. The Church House (Elm Park House) was built on the Linden Street property which is bordered by Madison Avenue; completing the triangle where the entire complex is now located.
After the concert, I asked Helma if her insides could handle her favourite food — pizza — and she grabbed her coat.
I take that as a yes, then! Nausea at bay!
On the way home, I stopped to take a couple of cameraphone pics of further evidence that Pennsylvanians take Christmas lawn decorating very seriously. Maybe the idea is to create a massive beacon by which Santa Claus can be guided to PA from the North Pole. Or space.
There’s a gigantic inflatable snowglobe AND a musical Christmas carousel in front of this house, but you might just miss it in the Christmas posse roundup of Homer Simpson, reindeer and sleigh, Tigger, Mickey Mouse, et al.
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