International parade day

Evelyn was unable to sleep through the night. She prepared sandwiches for today’s lunch at the parade. She took me to work on time but no one came with a key until 8:35. They always pay me for the time I am there but it is discouraging to get there and just sit on the concrete tables waiting for someone. I knew I had to leave an hour early today, so I walked around picking up trash without any tools. I normally won’t do any work until I clock in but knew that after waiting this long I would be paid from 8. Evelyn meantime went to the new hairdresser in Clyde to have a wash, cut, color and set. She also took our lawn chairs and lunch down to Laurie to put out for us to save a spot at the parade site. Evelyn picked me up at 11 and we went to Kathy’s to change clothes. This way we could more likely get a parking spot. We went to get our chairs and moved them to directly in front of the courthouse where the groups perform after the parade. We took an extra chair for Jim, Kathy’s husband, because they don’t have any lawn chairs. It was hot but the parade was just like other years. We could see most of the performances until the camera people began standing in front of us for long periods of time. The countries not mentioned yesterday were Philippines, Peru, Hawaii, Mexico, and Macedonia. We came home and cleaned up while watching the end of the Cubs game. Then we dressed and picked up Jim and Kathy to go to the street dance. We danced three round dances and listened to the Bluegrass music. We came home before it ended at 9 and worked on making a peach cobbler for Frieda’s family visiting for her husband’s funeral.