Maters and Christmas

Saturday we went to the flea market at the fair grounds very near here. We found a couple of things we could use and then went to walk. We bought a relish tray for Shirley. I also found that we can not return our old Dish network items to the place we bought it. We will have to mail them back when they send boxes for that purpose. I wanted to change oil in the Saturn so I drove up onto my makeshift ramp and crawled under. I could barely get my drain bucket under the oil pan and could not get the old filter loose. I had no oil filter wrench but tried a channel lock I borrowed from a neighbor. Still no success so I asked the young man from across the street to try. He couldn’t get it loose either. I called the local Grease Monkey for an appointment and drove to Waynesville. I was told it would be $31.95 to change the oil and filter. When the shock wore off, I asked how much to loosen the filter. The young man just went into their pit and took the old filter off and put my new one I had bought from Advance Auto Parts on. They didn’t charge me anything, so I drove home, drained the old oil and put new oil in. What a blessing that was! We had lunch and rested in the afternoon since we had not slept well last night. We then went off to a gospel sing at a church near Canton. We arrived a few minutes before 6 but no one was there except one of the singers. He said the sing started at 7, but we were not willing to wait an hour so we went back to Canton to the Mountain Mater Fest. We listened to 5 groups in the “Battle of the Bands” but didn’t like many of them. They were not bluegrass bands. We bought some fried green tomatoes and then came back home. I made popcorn and then we went to bed.
We were up and off to Franklin. We arrived at church at 9:30, I robed and led the worship. I thought I made too many mistakes in the liturgy but had many compliments on my sermon, one I had given to my interdenominational group in Texas. I thank God for using my message. We then took some of Dave’s Ultimate Insanity, the concentrated habanera sauce that will melt plastic to one of Tom and Luann’s friends we meet at their parties. We then drove to Roswell where the kids were excited to celebrate our Christmas in July a month late. They had assembled their artificial tree and put up many Christmas items. It was a blast. We all received many wonderful things and enjoyed the celebration. We then visited the rest of the afternoon of which there was not much left. Stacy made a bean dip/taco salad for dinner that was even better than those at Taco Bell. I went in to our sleeping room to check on the computer that was charging and sat down on a blanket covered glass topped coffee table to work a bit. The glass broke and we spent half an hour cleaning up the slivers of glass from the carpeted floor. The glass had been glued back together before but I still broke it. I hope they let me pay to have the glass replaced.