A narrow miss

Tuesday is geezer softball day, and I got up debating whether to go play or not. I decided to go despite the cold weather (not cold for those of you in the north). But, alas, the Lord had other plans. I started the car and the check engine light stayed on. Worse, it began to blink. I drove to the hall and parked. I looked in the owner’s manual and saw that blinking means see a mechanic quickly. I drove to Robert’s garage, where I have gone in the past, but there was nothing going on there. I went to my friend Joe’s office and was referred to Nunn’s garage. I called and they were able to take me right away. I drove there but the light had not blinked since the first time. They found that one spark plug was not gapped correctly and some strip on the side of the engine block was not connected properly. They reset the check engine light and seemed to correct the problem. The car ran well all the way home. It was too late for softball so I just came home. Evelyn had gone to the park Bible study. I worked on the computer until she came home and made lunch. After lunch we took a nap. For some reason we were both tired. I then cut the grass and rode to a widow friend of ours and asked her to go to the welcome back winter Texan party. We will take her. I also, due to the expertise of my friend Ray in Kansas, made a folder for my sermons, moved them from works to word and put them into the sermons folder. This will make it easier to find them and easier to write them. The weather forecasters keep talking about the weather getting colder and colder but discount much chance of rain. I am thinking of playing golf tomorrow morning before it gets too cold. I haven’t played since we arrived. We had a light dinner and picked up Fanny at 6:30 and went to the RGV stock yards grounds. There were many people there and we saw several we knew. One of the members from our church had a country/western band called Overland Express. They play music each year between the giveaways from the local merchants. Our friend with us won a set of four mugs from the local Texas State Bank. The party features free beer and pretzels and punch and cookies also. We didn’t win anything but we had a good time anyway. We went to the HEB in Mercedes to get some things for us and Fanny. We took her home and stopped at the Outback so I could sign up for golf at the Executive junk course. I will play tomorrow morning.