rain and forgetfullness

Thursday was an interesting day. First the assistant manager with the key to the store was more than a half hour late. He did promise to clock us in at 8. We began working and did get most things ready by opening at 10. I finished my work and began filling the small salsa cups that go with the taco salads. We got so busy that I could not finish the job for three hours. There was a continuous line at the drive through and the dining room was full most of the time. The line workers were swamped making food orders. Everyone was pretty tired by the time I left. One amazing thing happened during the day. One of the teenage girl workers asked if I could add very well. I was a bit apprehensive but said yes. She said I have fried two groups of three baskets of chips and am supposed to make 8. How many do I lack? This high school student and another did not know how to add 3+3 and subtract 2 from 8. I think 6 of our 7 grandchildren could work that problem. These are high school juniors! How frightening. We came home and rested until going to Casterline’s for an elaborate hot dog dinner. The side dishes were green beans, macaroni and cheese, deviled eggs, relishes, jello and apple pie a-la-mode for dessert. We then played Farkel, a game we had played with them last week. They obviously loved it because they asked us to bring it with us. We came home and went to bed, ready for tomorrow.
Friday allowed us to walk. After the walk we ran several errands. Our main objective was to find some packing materials to use for sending the bi-fold back to California. We found some bubble pack at the Rexel lighting place although our neighbor, Kathy, was not there. We came home and packed the box and took it to the UPS store near here. Things went smoother than we thought. Before this on our errand run, we found a set of golf clubs, bag and cart at the Open Door. Shirley and Evelyn have been suggesting I get a new set of clubs so I did for $10. Now I must discover some place to dispose of my old ones. We ate and cleaned up. We tried to find someone to go to the Pickin’ in the Park at Canton but couldn’t. Kathy’s husband, Jim, had spent the night in the hospital suffering from dehydration as a result of diarrhea. We wanted to invite them for lunch tomorrow but he thought he should not eat much. We went to Canton by ourselves and enjoyed the evening despite the threat of rain. It had rained many times during the day and the previous night. We needed the rain.
Saturday it rained all morning. It had rained last night and a tree had fallen across a nearby power line and left us without power for an hour and a half. Since we couldn’t walk, we worked on cleaning the golf clubs and bag. I discovered that there was one set of Jack Nicklas clubs and another set of irons. I think I made a good buy. We entertained some friends we had met at Stonebridge a couple of years ago. We served the last of the Jambalya; we had served it to three groups of dinner guests. We talked with them for a couple of hours about their cruise to Alaska this summer. We were both tired so we took a nap and decided to chance the weather and go to the Shindig on the Green in Asheville. As we were dressing, we got a call from some friends from church who had gone to Marriage Encounter last fall. We thought the meeting at their house was to be tomorrow evening. We rushed to their house and had a dialogue followed by a dinner. We had brought nothing because Evelyn had not made anything, thinking it was tomorrow. We met a new couple and planned to attend another “spiral” next month and be a prayer couple for the next M. E. Weekend.