March 4 and 5

The morning found that Evelyn's portion of her Mary Kay order had arrived. She has an agreement with another consultant here in our park to interchange orders so they don't have to order so much each time. She brought her portion home and delivered an order. She was paid in check so we had to deposit the money. I exchanged my rolls of quarters so I could look for some more 1999s. We also got some supplies for the kitchen. We came home and replanted some aloe plants from the pots in the front of the house to the garden in back. We had not trimmed the aloe from the burns suffered in the snow and freeze of the past Christmas. We will have aloe for all occasions.:-) The evening featured a dance, as does each Friday, played by Lyle Beaver. This one emphasized sports. Some people wore hockey pads while others just wore the colors of their favorite teams. There were several Green Bay Packers jerseys. We wore the best ones: Purdue shirts. Speaking of Purdue, Evelyn has decided we should re-purchase our football season tickets. We will see how that plays out when the order form arrives. We came home and I worked on the sermon just a bit and then went to bed.
Up at six to get ready for the Gideon prayer breakfast at the Palm Aire. There were only seven there, about half of those attending last week. Afterward I went to Mercedes to walk in the walk-a-thon to raise money for the food bank in Mercedes. The walk didn't begin until 8:30 so I had to kill some time until Evelyn arrived with John and Sue Hamel. We all walked the three miles and met all together at the point of origin. Immanuel had the most participants and raised the major portion of the nearly three thousand dollars collected. We again had some time to kill because we wanted to take a fund raising brisket dinner home to help the school. We got it shortly before eleven and went to a local RV park to get a chicken dinner to support the sponsoring of poor students in Mexico. The brisket was ten times better than the chicken, even though it was supposedly cooked by a chef. I must tell the Mabel's people to give up that idea for the future. We came home and napped shortly in the afternoon. A friend brought a "new" set of golf clubs, bag and cart for me. I called Ray to come over and help me "cull" the clubs. I will try to sell the old set at one of the flea markets coming up in the next two weeks. We ate some burned sausages for dinner. Evelyn forgot about their being on the stove because she was talking to Emily. I cut the terribly charred portions off the sausages and gave the residue to the barking dogs over the back fence. We relaxed in the evening and rewatched the video, "What if Jesus Had Never Been Born?" It is really inspiring and makes one wonder how anyone with any knowledge of history could fail to realize the importance of Christ on the world. But God knows what He is doing.