Friday

Friday morning we walked, even though Evelyn thought we weren’t planning to. While walking, we got a call from Shirley saying there were no tee times available so we could not play. She called back later saying she had secured a tee time at 10:40 tomorrow morning. I will meet her after the men’s breakfast at church. We finished walking and took the trash to the pick up point and went to Wal-Mart to get some glides for the bottom of the counter stools. I put them on and went outside to stain some wood legs I plan to use for a table outside and on the bottom of our TV tray. I hope to be finished with staining for a while. E stayed in and made a vegetable stir fry for lunch. We wanted to eat light because of our dinner out tonight. We took showers and then took a short nap before preparing to go out. Evelyn finished lining the edge of the blankets for the girls in California. I worked on learning how to make business cards on the computer and discovered another disaster: I can’t find my Microsoft Streets and Trips disk. Perhaps it is here somewhere. If not the young man I had working on the old computer may have lost it. We left here with Paul and Shirley at 4:00 and drove 65 miles to a restaurant near a ski lodge. It was on top of a mountain called Wolf Laurel and was called the Lodge. The owners are building and selling log homes of 1500 square feet for $350,000. They have sold more than 60 lots and built 18 homes. They are nice but pretty isolated, although there will be a swimming pool and a small airstrip. The restaurant was surprisingly reasonable in price and the food was delicious. We shared a 10 ounce sirloin and 8 shrimp that cost only $13.95 and included a salad and two sides. I chose French fried sweet potatoes, the first either of us had ever had. Many of the waitresses did short clogging acts. They were quite good. We left before dark and drove very slowly down the mountain which is more tense than driving up. We went to the Farmer’s Market so Paul could buy some cantaloupe. He loves to go to that market, even in the dark. I bought 10 gallons of gasoline because they have to drive almost everywhere we go together. After we trade cars, we might be able to drive more. I called Joe Winston to ask him to send me the scripture verses from the marked Bibles so we can use them for our Sunday morning Bible study. We watched TV and went to bed. I have to remember the breakfast tomorrow; I have forgotten it each month we have been here.