Thank you, Lord!

Last night, I prayed for some kind of sign that God is working to ease our financial burdens.
I got the answer in today's mail.
It came in the form of a new mortgage coupon book lowering our monthly payment by 18.25%.
And a substantial check refunding escrow overpayments.

B.C. flashback

Marathon Oil Co. gas stations gave out B.C. comic strip-themed glassware and Fire King bowls and casseroles as premiums back in the late 1960s and early '70s.

My stepdaughter and her husband were cleaning out his house with the aid of my wife and this was among the castoffs that was just too cool for the dumpster.

The third of June

"It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty delta day..."

So begins the haunting Ode to Billy Joe by Bobbie Gentry, released about this time in 1967.

It still holds up 52 years later and, as I discovered yesterday, Bobbie Gentry is still with us - 76 years old living in seclusion in a suburb of Nashville, Tenn.

There are several bridges over the fabled Tallahatchie River in Mississippi and I've ridden a motorcycle over a few of them. None seemed high enough for a successful suicide.

The photo is from 2014.