Half a day off.

I got up early to go to a sale at the local Borderland Hardware. I only went because a friend of our from Canada called and told us of it. I found some things I thought I needed such as a paper shredder. I went to Trail’s End to post announcements about our worship and saw one of the men who attends there. I also talked with his wife but could not work up the nerve to ask them to help set up on Sunday. They did last year, but the man complained so much I didn’t want to ask him again. I also need someone to announce the services in their park meeting. They didn’t want to speak in front of the group. He did give me three tomato plants and sold me a pound of pecans he likes to pick them out of the shell in the evenings. I brought the items home, and we immediately began planting the gardens. We planted the tomatoes, cilantro seeds, onion sets, brussel sprouts, and some squash seeds we brought from NC. We had bought the squash in Indiana. We also cut back two Aloe plants in decorative plants. We ate lunch and decided to loaf the rest of the afternoon. I did work on my first sermon while Evelyn took a nap. I also watched A&M nearly upset UT on national TV. When Evelyn got up we worked on some cleaning and Christmas decoration although the big decorating will be tomorrow. We had a light dinner and then went to Dairy Queen so Evelyn could have the pumpkin blizzard she has wanted for two weeks. We shared it and then went to the grocery to get ingredients for the making of our hazelnut/poppy seed bread. We came home and watched Family Man, a movie we had seen before that we liked. I asked the man at HEB if the new Wal-Mart had hurt their business. He thought it had but more damage has come from the economy here. Gasoline prices had hurt people’s income. It is interesting to think that since the prices here are lower than any place we have found on our travel to get here. We will work on decorating tomorrow.