riding the bull

The Lord blessed us with another wonderful worship service today. I told the congregation about the communion ware and the $100 part that the park board would play. The park contributed $100 and one of the members contributed the remaining $72 for us. She didn’t even hesitate a bit. The message concerned the touch of Jesus hand on those He encountered and on us. We had our Bible study and then we came home to await our friends from IN. They came at 11:30 and we went to a local Chinese restaurant for lunch. They said they couldn’t accompany us to the bull riding because they had to have their trailer washed and waxed. I thought that was a lame excuse but feel blessed that they even took the time to visit us at all. I think I am becoming paranoid after losing our good friends of 5 years. The Lord’s will be done. We still had 4 tickets so we called the people we had worked with at the stock show, and they were happy to go. The rodeo was also somewhat lame in that only 8 guys ever rode the full 8 seconds. In addition, they had to run through the riders twice to get those. We saw something absolutely insane. It was called bull poker and featured a table in the middle of the bull ring with 5 men seated around it. A mad bull was turned loose and the one who remained in his chair was to win $100. The bull immediately charged the table knocking 4 of them over. The fifth could have won, but he also ran from the bull. The split the money 5 ways. What idiots would do that? I didn’t get their names. Some little boys and one little girl rode sheep in the mutton buster event, and two of the rodeo clowns performed a comic routine involving a live camel. They pantomimed the recording “Ahab, the Arab” by Ray Stevens. It was funny. We came home and rested. Preaching takes some wind from my sails. Evelyn decided to make microwave caramel corn in a paper bag. It was a large amount so we invited the Reddels to come to play dominoes. Don won every game. We have a very busy day tomorrow with Dr. Appointments, lunch, auto welding and motor home repair.