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We walked this morning and then showered. I came to the library as I have said. We had an early lunch of pancakes and sausage links (mostly to get rid of the links we had brought from Texas). I tried to learn more on the status of our jacks but must wait until tomorrow. We went to Berne to get Mom and take her to Bearcreek Farms for the Liberace impersonator. We happened on to a letter last week saying that bringing it to the theater would get us in free. The show was outstanding. Martin dressed in the gaudy attire and brought a younger man with a marvelous voice who sang three numbers. I was especially taken with the percussionist, not drummer. He really added to the performance with his skills, and I told him so after the show. We took Mom back and went home for dinner and a quiet evening at home.
We went to Fort Wayne on Tuesday to attend a "Forever Young" expo presented by St. Joe Hospital. It featured many health examinations and other things. We each had a five minute massage and had a dermatologist examine us for skin cancer. He said Evelyn was fine but I had two beta cell cancers, one on the right ear that I was aware of and one on my left shoulder that I wasn't. We picked up many freebees including some pill boxes that we need to take on our trip to Australia. We will be gone more than 14 days and needed medicine for those days. We had intended to wrap them in saran wrap but don't have to now. We left there and went out to the auto auction to see Darrell and have lunch in the cafeteria. We had very good beef stroganoff. Darrell was in good spirits because he had finished third in the demolition derby last Saturday. We came home, napped and prepared for our dinner with Stan and Bonita. We set up our football table and chairs so we could eat outside. We ate a salad Evelyn had prepared and then we ordered a Pizza King pizza. We brought it back and ate it and drank beer. It cooled down so we went inside for dessert of razzleberry pie and ice cream. Somehow Evelyn and managed to grossly over bake the pie, and it was quite inferior. We did top it with delicious vanilla ice cream. They stayed until after 10, and we had a nice visit recalling fond memories of Via de Cristo.
Wednesday we had to take the jeep to be repaired. It went smoothly and the body shop called Enterprise to pick us with our rental car. We have $20 per day allotment on our policy which gets us a Neon type compact. The young man came in a big hunkin Ford Explorer because it was the only car they had. How blessed we are! We drove out to get our prepared tax return. The bill for computation was $300, more than we have ever paid, but the mess we had was worse than ever before. The "good" news is that we will receive $2,200 in refund. I don't like that really because the government has used that money for many months without paying any interest. I thought we would have to pay this year but felt relieved even though unhappy. We went to Uno for lunch and had a shrimp/crab fondue that was delicious. We had planned to take Louise, but she had to cancel for today. We are at this writing in her office at the IPFW campus. We received a call from the repair shop stating they had found some additional problems and would not finish the work until Friday. We keep the Explorer another day. We finished this and drove back to Decatur, buying $1.89 gasoline on the way and mailing our tax return to Austin. Evelyn was very tired and took a nap so I made dinner by browning some ground chuck we had carried from HEB and added a can of Manwich we had carried for more than a year. It was pretty good, but we won't buy any more. We just don't eat many sloppy joes. We spent the evening watching Lost and Law and Order. Between those shows we tried to watch some comedies on ABC. They were so stupid and salacious that we opted for part of Alias, even though we knew we would never see the end. We went to bed late.