Family from GA and CA

Thursday is my last day of work for a week. I did everything I was supposed to do in good time. I know that I often slow down and have slowed down since I first started. I guess my energy is depleting. I posted my petition and got some laughs and some signatures. I guess Taco Bell doesn’t do that anymore. Besides: it was a joke. Evelyn had been gone from home all day. The morning was in Bible study and the afternoon was shopping for things for the visit. We came home and got the keys for the motor home, returned to Wal-Mart and brought the coach here to park it in the commons area. I had cut the small dead tree down and we pulled in being careful to avoid running over the drain from our neighbor’s driveway. We leveled the unit as best we could but were not really satisfied. We will have to look for more blocks. We came home and I cleaned up before going to the lake for a walk. We came home and had some more of the roast pork we had some time ago. It has lasted a long time but is still very good. Evelyn had been marinating some beef to make sauerbraten for the church dinner Sunday and had slow cooked it all day. We took it out of the cooking bag, she cut off some of the burned portions and then packed it into an aluminum pan that we will take to church tomorrow. A friend from church will slice it Saturday. We watched a weird movie and I tried to adjust the pull cart I have been using when we play golf. It twists on the hills. I think I tightened the correct place but failed to get the pull handle exactly straight. I will try it once more next week and decide whether I should just go back to my original one. We stayed up a bit later than usual but went to bed tired.
We arose on Friday and went to Taco Bell! We went so I could make a toll free call to Indiana. We then went to the lab for me to get a blood draw. It was there that my right lens fell out. From there we went to pay a bill at the hospital. Then to the church to drop off the beef we had marinated and cooked. From there we went to Wal-Mart to have my lens re-inserted. We weren’t finished. We had to go to Bi Lo for more groceries for the guests. We had one more grocery stop for bananas and oyster crackers. I also picked up some Estee Lauder Evelyn needs and had ordered last month. We brought them home and Evelyn began putting things together. I went to try to make the motor home more level and ended up knocking a spring off the right from jack. Now it is less level than before, and I can’t drive it the way it is. I will have to find some way to have someone come with a hydraulic lift mechanism and hopefully put the spring back on. I will worry until I think of someone who can come here and do the work. We had a good visit when everyone finally arrived, They were hungry so we ate almost immediately and then packed into the two vans and drove to Lake Junaluska so we could see it at night and allow the kids to burn off some energy. We came home and assigned beds and sneaked off ourselves.
We arose Saturday and showered quickly so we could be out of the way of everyone else. The final time of the last riser was 10. We had some oatmeal and bagels for breakfast in loose shifts. I came into the bedroom and watched some of the college game day predictions. I also called an RV place in Maggie Valley that said they could come next week and fix the jack. I sure will thank God if that is the case. We finally left here shortly before noon headed for Cherokee. We stopped along the way for some boiled peanuts that I thought some might like. As it is Stacy and I were the only ones that really like them. We stopped at Granny’s buffet in Cherokee for lunch that Pieder bought for everyone. We went on to the Oconoluftee Village, a working village of Cherokees reenacting life even before the Revolutionary war. We had taken the tour last fall, but this time it was better. Everyone seemed to like it. The kids asked many good questions and learned many things. It was 5 when we finished so we just decided to come home for chili and hot dogs. I had thought we were planning to eat at a restaurant in Maggie Valley where I have some discount coupons. Perhaps we will go there some other day. I also thought the four younger adults would want to go walk around Waynesville and hear some music, but we all stayed home and watched Polar Express. We were in bed by 10 which was fine with the older adults. Evelyn also had to start the sour kraut she volunteered to make for the German dinner tomorrow.
We were up and to church on time. Evelyn and the Beeli girls acted as greeters for LWML Sunday. I went to rehearse with the choir and we sang during the service. Everyone we talked to was impressed with our grandchildren. We came home for lunch and planned to go horseback riding but could not get a response to our call. So some of the kids went swimming at the indoor water park while most of the adults rested. They came home and we went off to the German dinner. It was a big success and quite good. The bad news is that we had run out of sauerbraten. We had plenty to eat though. I freaked out most of the evening thinking I had lost our digital camera, but, thank God, Rosalie found it. We watched a movie and retired. We were disappointed to learn that the Georges will have to leave early in the morning. They will not be able to go to sliding rock with us tomorrow because they have a conference with the teachers in their school.