Catching up

Wednesday found us walking early again. As we walked we found Sharon, our builder, and talked with her a bit. She seems to be doing well without Joey but prays for him. He has very low self esteem. She also said she would come to look at our door problem but never came as far as we know. Evelyn left me to do computer work and came home. I spent much time looking for sites that would help us eliminate the smoke odor from the near disaster yesterday. I also made arrangements to pay our credit card bills. My computer battery weakened and I had not brought my power cord. I went outside to wait for Evelyn and talked to a nice young marine while waiting. He doesn’t think we can win there because the people in Iraq, etc. Are so steeped in hatred for each other that peace is impossible. We gave him a ride to the bookstore and came home for lunch. We then went to Clyde for strawberries. They were nice and tasted good for $8.50 per gallon. We bought two. We then handed out some Folkmoot brochures and saw a lady who teaches dance. She showed us a step we hadn’t known. We then went to the doctor to see if he would call some prescriptions in to our mail order service. He said he would so we don’t have to track down the doctor in Texas. We then went to the grocery to get some supplies for making freezer jam out of the strawberries. We came home and sprayed some Oust to work on the odor. We took a nap while we waited for the air to clear. We got up and she began work on the berries while I sprinkled some Glade carpet cleaner and vacuumed it up. I walked to Rogers to see if Kathy could learn about some sort of light bulb that supposedly eats up odors. She might be able to get it through her work at the lighting company where she works. We had a salad for supper and then rushed off to choir practice. The choir director invited us to her home for dinner next Thursday. We had thought we would go to see the Asheville Tourists, but we will go to dinner instead. We came home and watched the hapless Cubs. I don’t why people go to see them. They have dropped out of baseball!

Thursday we left to walk before it became to hot. On the way we took more pamphlets to some of the doctor’s offices and small businesses around. We went to the hotel because I wanted to pay some bills on line. It took nearly an hour to do something that should have taken 15 minutes. The computer ran slow and some of the web sites didn’t work at all. We finally got tired of waiting so we left and went to deliver medical records and brochures to our doctor. I left disgusted because I learned that one doctor of the 14 that work there has eliminated not only brochures but Bibles from the waiting room. I am going to talk to our doctor about that next week. We came home for lunch and then rested. We went to Lowes and bought some flowers and some deck stain. We brought it home and then went to play golf. I walk and Evelyn walks with me. The price has gone from $10 for walking 9 holes to $15 for 9. I think I will begin playing at Iron Duff for $20 for 18 and a cart. We did meet a former director of the Lake Junaluska and played most of the round with him. He knew our friends, the Bollingers, who live near us. I didn’t score well but was happy with my shots because they were in the air, straight and looked like golf shots. It showered a bit while we were on the course and it felt good. We haven’t had rain for a very long time. We came home and planted and watered the new plants before we had dinner. Evelyn then cleaned the second gallon of strawberries. We watched a movie, “The Producers”, by Mel Brooks. It was just as crazy as one would expect. We went to bed singing “Springtime for Hitler.”

Friday we walked early again. I had Evelyn drop me at the hotel so she could come back and get Anna, our neighbor who used to work with draperies, and go to Lowe’s to check into some valances for our living room windows. She found some things to look over but doesn’t think she wants them. Meanwhile I was disappointed because the wireless system was not working. I was able to do some work on the in-house computer but some is still to be done. She picked me up and we came home for lunch. We were blessed with a nice rain shower so we couldn’t do much outside. Instead we watched the Cubs “play” baseball. Why do I waste my time? We also dozed off a bit. Around 5 we got dressed to go to town for the “Art after dark” event. We asked our neighbors to go with us for pizza but they wouldn’t go. We went to Pizza Hut because we had a coupon. We met a man alone and invited him to eat with us. He was a salesman from Asheville and was sort of a flake. The waitress got the order messed up and brought the wrong pizzas to both of us. The good news is that we got a free pizza like we had ordered. We went downtown and brought the picture we had bought last Friday home. We visited other galleries to look around. In one of them I spilled some wine on Evelyn’s skirt and white sweater. We also bought a powerful candle, Archipelago, in an attempt to mask the still present smoke odor in our house. We also bought some olive salad for future Mefalatto sandwich. We stopped at the grocery on the way home to get some country style ribs that were on special. This is my favorite meat to smoke. Evelyn worked on removing the stains and was fairly successful while I put the groceries away. We watched the news and then went to bed.