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I like Hywie better than Snoopy! Hywie's more heroic!

B-but Snoopy took on the Red Baron!

Hyvvie's name might have been Snoopy, had I not casually said "Hyfrydol" to a friend who said "You should name your dog that." She knew I was planning to adopt a dog. "Hyfrydol" is a Welsh hymn tune. In Welsh, a single F is pronounced V. Anyway, when it became obvious that the name needed to be shorter, "Hyvvie" (rhymes with "divvy" or "privy", not with "ivy") won out.

^ And Rowland Prichard would be proud!

When Anglicans Online published a list of their readers' favorite hymns last year, Hyvvie's picture was featured. He's on number three, all the way to the right.

Haven't heard of any of those hymns. I guess your church's repertoire is a lot different from those of southern Baptists! Don't recognize any of them from my years in HS and college choirs either.

Yes, the Episcopal Church has a lot of its own hymnody, most of which is English in origin. Of course, it shares a lot with other churches. Baptists have a lot of their own as well. I expect Tracker could speak to it better than I.

Six of the hymns from the 2012 list have been in my Baptist repertoire most of my life, and we sing them in my church now. I'm familiar with the rest, but then church music has been my education and career.

Six more songs from the 2003 list are staples in my congregation. We'll sing "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind" this Sunday. We rarely sing it, but I love the text.

When I was a kid, a Southern Baptist could visit almost any Southern Baptist church anywhere and would know the songs used in worship. Not so true today. Some churches use classic hymns (like Rocky's church), others use Southern Gospel, some use Christian rock music, jazz, country--almost any style. And with a growing ethnic diversity we have those flavors too.

We like to mix it up in my congregation.

"Dear Lord and Father of Mankind" is one of my favorites, sung to "Repton", of course. The last verse is listed on my favorite quotes on Facebook.

Rocky, we sing "Dear Lord and Father" to REST (ELTON). I'd never heard REPTON. Checked it out on YouTube; nice tune!

From my days as a young lad, I recall "At the Cross" and "Softly and Tenderly" among others.

Neither of those are in our hymnal, Lardy. They're both pretty songs, though.

We've reached our choir's summer hiatus (four Sundays off). I keep thinking "What's tomorrow's anthem?" and then I remember there isn't one.

Hope you don't forget to show up when choir hiatus ends!

I shan't, though today I'm heathing, also known as offering the Office of Supine at the Parish Church of St. Mattress and the Recliner.

I was so exhausted this weekend that I just napped almost all day Sunday myself.

I did get up this afternoon to do fifty minutes on the elliptical at the YMCA.

I hope to sleep in Tuesday and Wednesday--2 days off in a row! YEAH!

I used up all but one of my vacation leaves already Although 8 of those were filed for 2014, and 7 of those I will use in November 2013.

I'll be taking some time off in August. The Boyfriend and I have a weekend away planned. After that, my grandniece is coming for a visit. She'll be staying with my mother (her great-grandmother), but I'll be chauffeur. Also, I'll be getting a visit from a certain Legion Worlder. I have a fiftieth wedding anniversary party for some church friends to attend. My birthday is also in August.

Talk about eventful. I got nothing in August except for some long weekends where I have nothing planned yet!

Want to be my grandniece's chauffeur?

If you'll spring for my airfare, why not?

And after she's done visitng I might as well stay a couple more weeks and hit SanFo, Vegas and NYC!

Umm...you know that I don't live particularly close to any of those places, right?

I know, but since I'm already gonna be on the mainland USA might as well make the most of it!

I've been to 29 of the 50 states. The last one I added to the list was Minnesota in 2008.