Blessings galore

Thursday was the day Evelyn had been hoping would be over. She began by exercising as usual but then readied herself and went off to Harlingen for lunch and a tour of a historic bed and breakfast. She brought photos of the rooms, and they were old and rich looking. They had a nice lunch included in the trip and tour. In the meantime I went to the house of a couple who was going to Mexico. I gave them a note to my dentist telling her that I would not be able to make my appointment for 12:30 today. I asked her to call me but never heard from her. I also asked the couple to buy some Kahlua for our friend Shirley from Indiana. She is a black Russian addict. I will mail the booze to her. I had lunch and then rode around to get the mail and look for some people to invite for dinner tomorrow or Saturday. Tom Crouch and his wife are entertaining her brothers so they couldn’t come. I did see the Derrs who had just arrived and they accepted. We will go to the parade of lights in downtown Weslaco after dinner. I also began packing clothes in case we had to go north for Mom’s funeral. Evelyn got home around 2, and we took a bike ride around the park after she took a short nap. To my surprise, the couple had brought the Kahlua. We rode home and made dinner. After dinner we went to the HEB again to get more food to put into the chicken casserole for tomorrow night. We came home and finished making the casserole and cleaning the kitchen. I am the souse chef as I cut up and chop up all the ingredients. We added one drop of Dave’s Ultimate Insanity to the dish. We may have added too much because it is quite spicy. Perhaps baking the casserole will cool it down. After 9 Evelyn called the hospital to check on her mom. She was told that she was maintaining her health and might be moved from the ICU into a room or even back to Swiss Village for therapy. We had received an e-mail from Stacy saying she would be going to visit Mom on the 9th. She may be blessed to visit her in her home. We stayed up far too late and went to bed tired. I have neglected to mention the weather here which has been wonderful: high 70s and low humidity. It is usually humid, but has been more temperate this year. I keep commenting on how disgusting the weather is, especially compared to the weather in Indiana and Ohio. We are truly blessed to be here.