Monday, Monday

We learned Saturday that the air conditioning in the Jeep is not functioning. I must find a reliable repair shop. I had a neighbor in mind who has lived here for many years. I will see them tonight. We got up late because the radio volume had been turned down. We ate alight breakfast and went to the Lake to walk. We really are blessed to walk and pray for 45 minutes as we walk the 2 1/2 miles around. I go to the Kern Cafe afterward each day. Evelyn waited for Shirley to pick her up so they could go to Asheville to return the rugs bought yesterday. I stayed quite a while and then went home to eat some leftovers for lunch. I had barely finished when E. came back. Surprisingly, she had not eaten either. She had different leftovers and then laid down for a while. I am still trying to empty boxes, mostly of photo albums. She got up, and we spent and hour looking through some of them. That is something people rarely do. They spend money on film and cameras and time on "albumatizing" them and then rarely if ever get them out again. We brought an enormous amount of old photos and movies from Indiana and don't know what to do with most of them. I am going to make it a mission to look at them. I took the ones we reviewed (we always view them when we pick them up from the photo lab and again while putting them into albums) to the attic. We don't have too much space up there but do have some. While viewing the photos, Shirley called for E. to meet her so they could go to the unfinished furniture store where they might find nightstands for our bedroom. The problem is that the phone was in the kitchen being recharged, so we never heard it ring. It is just as well because Casterlines wanted us to go to the Chinese buffet with them. We have many leftovers that we need to consume prior to spoilage. Evelyn is such an excellent cook that I hate for any of her creations to be lost. We ate some more leftovers for dinner and then I went to the neighbor's to inquire about mechanics. The Lord is gracious and I learned that the wife's son is studying for the ministry but was previously a product supervisor for Ford in this area. Thus he knows good mechanics and recommended two in Clyde, the small town east of here. While there the rains we had been expecting from hurricane Dennis arrived. I had to borrow an umbrella to get home 60 yards away. We have been blessed to miss most of the rains but other areas east of here have been under flood watches for several days. We decided to try out our guest futon for the night but E couldn't take it because "I kept hitting the wooden arms". I was sleeping fine until I noticed her gone so I joined her in our regular bed. I still think the futon is a comfortable sleep. I must take the Jeep to Clyde for possible repair tomorrow. We also invited Bill and Pat Smith, friends who treated us so well in Savannah last summer, for a cook out next Thursday.