A couple of weeks ago, I was working in the backyard, when I began to hear “Hello? Hello? Hello?” The words seemed to be coming from the back pocket of my overalls. I took off one of my gardening gloves and reached back to pull out my phone. April was Face-Timing me.

“Hi!” I said.

“Hi,” she said back. “I really can’t talk right now,” she continued.

I was confused, and must have looked like it. Turns out, I had Face-Timed her. Inadvertently. By sitting down on my gardening cart and then getting up. I guess. I apologized and we hung up.

A few minutes later, I felt a buzz from my back pocket. When I looked at the phone, there was a message, from a phone number instead of a name, and the message said, “I can’t talk right now.” I had, apparently, pocket-dialed someone else. I don’t actually know who it was, because I never went back through my contacts to find the number. It can’t have been someone I know well, because they would have, or might have, called back.

Anyway, I’m just bringing it up in case you’ve received some random call or request from me. If so, I’m sorry. I’m trying to be more responsible, by making sure that, when the phone goes into my pocket, the screen isn’t on the contact list.

Here’s today’s weather information from Thursday’s paper. We’ve had an unusual spring. Rain, rain, rain, and then some more rain. There are parts of the yard where I squish and squish when I walk over the grass. Last Sunday morning, I checked the back yard and, for the first time in several days, there was no standing water. On Monday, it rained some more. And Tuesday. And Wednesday. I’ve been going outside, between rain showers, every day. Thursday, the rain came in really early, and then the sun shone for hours! But still, my shoes were heavy from all the mud that accumulated as I walked around the yard. And, by mid-afternoon, the clouds had come rolling back in.

The rain is supposed to begin again in the wee hours Friday morning, and continue until noon or so. But the high temperature is only supposed to be 62.

And, I’m really not complaining. Every drop of water that falls from the sky is a drop of water that I’m not having to pay for when I need to use the sprinkler system. Every pleasant day is a day we’re not having to run the air conditioner.

Speaking of the neighbors, they were all busy Thursday, the first really sunny, warm day in ages. The yard right behind me got mowed. The guy next door to me mowed their yard, too. And, there’s a little piece of yard that’s next to the one behind me, that backs up to a back corner of my yard. That guy did a lot of weed-eating. I guess they’re feeling like they should get lots of yard work done because the rain is supposed to be rolling back in. Imminently.

A few days ago, I was happy to see the little dark lizard was still on the premises.

But instead be kind and affectionate toward one another. Has God graciously forgiven you? Then graciously forgive one another in the depths of Christ’s love.

Ephesians 4:32 (The Passion Translation)

Okay, pocket-dialing somebody isn’t exactly a huge mistake, but, I don’t want to bother folks, especially by mistake. Meanwhile, our being kind and affectionate toward each other (and graciously forgiving), seems like the way to go.