<div dir="ltr"><div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial narrow, sans-serif" size="4">What&#39;s the difference between an alligator and a crocodile?</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial narrow, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Announcements</b></font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif" size="4"><b>THE AUCTION IS COMING! THE AUCTION IS COMING!</b></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial narrow, sans-serif" size="4">Be there or be left out: Friday, May 23, at The Gathering Place on 7th St. Doors open at 5:30 for silent, live, and fixed-price bidding of some really cool events and treasures! BYOB adult beverage (if you want to) for your table. Heavy hors d&#39;oeuvres will be served. It will be a fun evening! Admission is $15, and remember: This is a fundraiser for FUUSM, so plan to spend as much as you can afford!  </font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial narrow, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Online bidding is available until 10 p.m. Wednesday</b>. Here&#39;s how--this works on your smart phone, tablet, or computer:</font></div></div><ol><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family:&quot;arial narrow&quot;,sans-serif">Open your web browser and go to </span><a href="http://32auctions.com/" target="_blank" style="font-family:&quot;arial narrow&quot;,sans-serif">32auctions.com</a><span style="font-family:&quot;arial narrow&quot;,sans-serif">.</span></font></li><li><span style="font-family:&quot;arial narrow&quot;,sans-serif"><font size="4">Create an account. </font></span></li><li><span style="font-family:&quot;arial narrow&quot;,sans-serif"><font size="4">Log out.</font></span></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family:&quot;arial narrow&quot;,sans-serif">Go to this website: </span><a href="http://32auctions.com/fuusm" target="_blank" style="font-family:&quot;arial narrow&quot;,sans-serif">32auctions.com/fuusm</a></font></li><li><span style="font-family:&quot;arial narrow&quot;,sans-serif"><font size="4">Log in. </font></span></li><li><span style="font-family:&quot;arial narrow&quot;,sans-serif"><font size="4">Click on &quot;view all items.&quot;</font></span></li><li><span style="font-family:&quot;arial narrow&quot;,sans-serif"><font size="4">Start scrolling. You&#39;ll have access to all the auction items that are available for silent and fixed-price (but not &quot;live auction only items&quot;). </font></span></li><li><font size="4"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">You don&#39;t have to enter your credit card number, even for &quot;by now&quot; items--you can pay later, and even be invoiced. (</font><span style="font-family:&quot;arial narrow&quot;,sans-serif">Your church lady has already spent (but not paid for) $215 on fixed-price events plus auction admission, and placed bids on a whole bunch of silent auction items--for which I will be outbid, probably, on Friday evening or before.)</span></font></li></ol><div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif" size="4"><b>HELP NEEDED WITH PLANT SALE</b></font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif" size="4">Saturday, May 31, is the Big Day: Our annual Plant Sale and Bake Sale! But we need things to sell, so dig up and pot up the overflow from your yard and garden, clean up your gardening shed of tools, decorative pots, and garden art, and get <u style="">baking</u>! We will accept donations of plants and garden miscellany starting Tuesday, May 27, and foodstuffs on Friday, May 30. Please help! Proceeds of this sale go toward our Buildings &amp; Grounds committee, for the repair and maintenance of our historic buildings. Re the alligator and crocodile: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">You\u2019ll see one later and one in a while.</span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif" style="" size="4"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font style="" size="4" face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><b style="">The Week Ahead</b></font></span></div></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-228c613f-7fff-d7e0-547e-2f0fc5af3f3e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="4" face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Tuesday, May 20: <i>Confluence</i> content due</font></span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="4" face="arial narrow, sans-serif">3:30\u20136:30 p.m., Girl Scout Troop meets in the social hall.</font></span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="4" face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Wednesday, May 21</font></span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font size="4" face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">6 p.m., </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Men\u2019s Group potluck, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">social hall. Chris Jacobs hosts.</span></font></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4" face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(255,229,153)">Thursday, May 22: FUUSM OFFICE CLOSED</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (Dawn out.)</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="4" face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Friday, May 23</font></span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font size="4" face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">7\u201310 p.m., </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">FUUSM Service Auction, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">doors open at 6, at Marietta College\u2019s The Gathering Place, on 7th St. $15 admission.</span></font></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="4" face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Saturday, May 24</font></span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font size="4" face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">9:30\u201310:30 a.m.,</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> Tai Chi for beginner</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">s, social hall (Darryl Ting)</span></font></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="4" face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Sunday, May 25</font></span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font size="4" face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">9:30 a.m., </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Buildings &amp; Grounds Committee</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> meeting, social hall</span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font size="4" face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">11 a.m., </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Sunday service, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">sanctuary, with Stephen DiLorenzo, guest speaker, via Zoom, on <i>War, Peace, and Moral Injury.</i></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font size="4" face="arial narrow, sans-serif">11 a.m., Quaker meeting (MOV Friends), RE parlor</font></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font size="4" face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Coffee hour!  </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Social hall. Ends at 1 p.m. </span></font></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="4" face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Monday, May 26, Memorial Day </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b>(FUUSM Office closed)</b></span></font></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font size="4" face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">7 p.m., </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Finance Committee </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">via Zoom</span></font></p></li></ul><br></span></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dawn Hewitt</div><div>Office assistant</div><div>First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta</div><div>232 Third St.</div><div>Marietta, OH 45750</div><div>(740)373-1238</div><div>Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 10 a.m.--2 p.m. <br></div></div></div></div>