Beautiful fall foilage

We slept in Friday and then began cleaning the house for the LME meeting here tomorrow evening. Evelyn dusted and cleaned the refrigerator while I vacuumed the floor and worked on the chirping smoke alarm. I can’t get it to stop but will try once more by buying a new 9 volt battery. I have one but it seems to not work because it still chirps. We had lunch and then went to town to get some of the supplies for tomorrow’s dinner. It had gently rained all morning and was not very warm. We went to BiLo for the pork chops we had ordered, and I found some Killian’s Irish Red for a good price. I bought two 6 packs. We went to the bank to cash our rebate check from Pepsi and then on to Big Lots to try to find a square table cloth for the card table we will have to use tomorrow. I also bought a 9 volt battery that fixed the chirp. I am not sure why the smoke alarm needs a battery because it is hard wired to the ceiling. It was late in the afternoon and Evelyn went to work making the pork chops. I chopped onions and celery to mix in with the stuffing and washed the dishes. We had pizza left from the dinner with Paul and Shirley Wednesday. It was still good. We also had some more of the apple cake made at the same time as the muffins. We then retired to the living room where we watched the biography of Carolyn Jones, star of the Addams Family television series. We were tired and went to bed a bit earlier than usual.
Saturday was the men’s breakfast, and Evelyn went along so she could prepare the altar for tomorrow’s worship. We finished the Max Lucado series, He Chose the Nails. It is truly a wonderful representation of the love God has for us. Afterward we went to return some books to the library and check to see if the flowers for tonight were ready. They weren’t so we decided to get them at the BiLo grocery. We got them and came home to continue preparation. We had lunch, and I began gathering some items we want to pack for our return to Texas. I also listened to the sorry excuse for a football game between Purdue and Penn State. Purdue’s offense could not score a point. We were able to rest for awhile before the guests came. When they came, we had hors doerves and then watched a segment from the Lucado video to provide a question for us to discuss. We then enjoyed the pork chops and the other items the other couples brought. We had a very nice visit with them. After they left we loaded the dishwasher and hand washed the things we didn’t think were dishwasher safe. I changed the clocks in the house because tonight is the last day of daylight savings time. We relaxed and went to bed. Oh, yes. We talked with Stacy and Tom and told them we plan to leave Wednesday or as soon as we are packed. Tom has been working hard on a project that he finished Friday. He can enjoy his birthday and Halloween night without pressure.
After an hour of extra sleep, it was off to worship at church. Our choir sang and this will likely be our final participation this season. We came home after church for an all vegetable lunch--squash and sweet potatoes from Saturday. We they started the dish washer and went to rest a while. I watched some football and napped while Evelyn read in the bedroom. We then went to walk at the lake and came home to change clothes and go to the choir concert at the Methodist Church in Waynesville. Our choir director, Rosalind, was in it and had a couple of short solos. We had invited she and her husband to come over for popcorn and Bailey’s Irish Cream that we had forgotten to serve when they were here earlier in the summer. We visited and played one round of Protestant Poker before they left. We went to bed at an earlier time.
We slept late again and began gathering items to load into the motor home when we got it. Around 10 we went to walk the lake and then went to volunteer at the Open Door soup kitchen. We always get a blessing from working there. I almost gave the devotion, but Perry, the director, did it instead. We left there and went to Maggie Valley to get the motor home. I went to the office while Evelyn went home. I was shocked to receive a $75 dollar bill for just learning that the marine batteries were low, causing the refrigerator system to malfunction. This on top of the $50 storage fee they had charged. I was livid but tried to keep it inside. I did, however, throw the signed charge slip back at the women. Her husband followed me to the coach, telling me how “as a minister, I should be ashamed.” I apologized to him and came home. We began taking things to the coach but received a phone call from the woman saying someone had found my credit card and had turned it in. I will have to go get it. I guess the Lord wants me to return and ask forgiveness from the woman. I will do that tomorrow. We had much wine, more than I could drink, so I went to our neighbor, Anna, and asked her to come for a glass of wine. Eventually, we went to the Rogers and enjoyed not only the opened bottle of wine but another that I needed to get rid of. We enjoyed their company especially since Kathy had her 53rd birthday this past Saturday. We celebrated with her and stayed there for two hours. One of her suppliers who was raised in Canada but now lives in Black Mountain. We had a good time there. We came home and had some cake and ice cream before watching Glenn Beck on CNN. He is quite concerned as I am about the Islamic Fascists. We are in a fight for the western Christian lives in this country. I just thank God for giving us faith in His power through our Lord, Jesus. We can go to bed with confidence in Him and His control of the world and our future.