Days of more fun

Sunday was worship day. We went to Bible study and saw a lady that reminded us that Evelyn had forgotten another thing yesterday. She was supposed to meet a lady at church to help learn about altar guild. We also sang in the choir today. The selection was one of my favorite most powerful hymns: It is Well with my Soul. I was especially moved when we warmed up and was asked to pray for our performance. I could hardly make it through the prayer. Unfortunately, Evelyn and I both agreed that the rehearsal was better than the church singing. It was fellowship Sunday so we stayed for the lunch provided. We stopped at the Wal-Mart on the way home to buy another DVD player. The one we bought six months ago quit. I will take it back to where we bought it to see if we can get a refund. We came home and rested before going to a neighbor’s house to pull weeds for her. She has vertigo and can hardly stand up not to mention bend over to pull weeds. We walked the lake and tried to think of a couple who might go with us to Chimney Rock tomorrow. We are still thinking. We returned home for popcorn and a movie.
We wakened at 6 AM! We couldn’t sleep for some reason despite trying for another 45 minutes. We finally gave up and went to walk the lake. We returned home and prepared to leave for Chimney Rock. I also wanted to get a wireless “card” from Cingular. We looked for the store in Asheville and found one. There was a very nice young man who explained many things to me, but he didn’t have any of the items. He sent me to an “island” in Asheville Mall that had one. We went there and waited for the clerk to serve another customer for more than 15 minutes. He then began to help me. I was ready to buy the thing and subscribe for the service, but many things went wrong. It was closing in on one o’clock with no end in sight. It had to be installed and it took longer than I was willing to take, being hungry so I walked out. We had lunch at Chilis and took half of our lunches with us because they were too large to eat there. We then proceeded to Chimney Rock. On the way we got so tired that we had to pull off the road and take a nap. We went on to what was a beautiful park, costing $14 each for entry. We walked to the top of the rock, took some pictures and walked to the bottom of Hickory Nut Falls. In short we walked ourselves into quite a tired state. We came home and had hot dogs for dinner. We went to bed a bit early because I have to go back to work tomorrow.
Up again at 6. Evelyn dropped me at work and went to walk. I did my cleaning but didn’t have to wash windows because the professional comes on payday. My check was for $200 because I had missed the day we were in Georgia. It was a normal day with a steady line at the drive through but there were some small breaks unlike last Thursday. I also poured rain around 2 so by the time 3 came it was still a drencher. We went to the golf course and found Shirley just leaving. We couldn’t play. We came home and rested because the Casterline’s were coming for dinner. They came and we played Kings on the Corner until 8:30. They left and I went straight to bed. I turned on the TV to watch the Cubs but went to sleep immediately. I brought to degreaser home to try to eradicate some of the oil spills that are on the carport floor. I seemed to work well last time.
Wednesday was off to work again. It was a normal day but I told the manager I would likely quit around October 1. I had all my outside work done in plenty of time to help put some of the supplies from the truck away. One of the male assistant managers had heard me talk about playing golf yesterday and wanted to talk to me about it. He is thinking about taking up the game because his “girl friend” works with us and he has nothing to do on his day off. I told him how to get to our house and that I would give him my old set of clubs, a bag and perhaps a pull cart if he would go get them. When we returned home, they were still here. Evelyn went to the Christian Women’s Club luncheon and heard a quasi-nutritionist. E questioned her qualifications but had to miss talking with her because of the line waiting to do the same. She picked me up and we went to Wal-Mart to see if I could get any type of refund on the DVD player I bought last year. It quit working after only 6+ months of use. We didn’t use it all winter. There was another line but a manager implied that they could look for a price on the computer even though I no longer had the charge slip. I tried the degreaser on the oil spots and it helped but the spots will likely always faintly be there. We ate our leftover hamburgers from Monday’s lunch at Chili’s and went to choir practice.
Thursday was a normal day at work. I sometimes have fun especially with the older people (20-23). Most of the people there seem to like me, but I don’t join in much of the sophomoric fun. It does hurt to know that none of the mothers there is married. After work Shirley and I played golf and I played much more consistently than before. I shaved 5 strokes from previous scores but that is not enough to make me record the score. I don’t know whether my “new” clubs had anything to do with it, but Shirley thought so. We came to our house and met Paul. I took a quick shower and off we went to Canton. We shared a marvelous crown salmon dinner stuffed with crab meat with 6 shrimp on top. Even sharing it was too much to eat and we brought some home. We then went to a concert by a David Holt and the Lightning Bolts, a band from western North Carolina. It too was outstanding. We then came home for coffee and dessert.