A House Blessing

I know, I know. This is way after Theophany, but life gets busy and next thing you know its the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee and your house still hasn't been blessed. So, Fr. David and a whole bunch of other people from the parish came down to our apartment and began the blessing, then we processed through the courtyard around the pool to the "big boy's" godmother's apartment and finished the service there.

Just before the start of the service I grabbed three of my tenants and had them come in and help pray. They are one-ness pentecostals. (a strange mixture of sabellianism and montanism). They ducked out during the procession but at least they got to see a little bit of real Christianity.
During the procession another tenant popped out of her apartment and watched. Later, we talked and I answered some questions for her.

For the party after the blessing we ate a ton of meat. (After all, this is our last day for it until Pascha.) We had rice pilaf with roasted duck, pork loin and plums in a reduced balsamic rosemary sauce, champagne, many deserts, watermelon Italian sodas, grilled sausages with cranberry mustard & spicey chutney, and a bunch of other stuff.

Pretty exhausted now. Athanasia and the boy have been in bed for 1 hour. I'm going to do the last of the dishes, have the last slice of pork loin and then get ready for bed myself.