Improved conditions

Things are looking better so I will try this again. The hiatus found things the same at work. The family problems seem much improved during our visit yesterday. We also got a couple of cases of wine and a loaf of delicious Kroger hazelnut/poppy seed bread. The bad thing was that I received a speeding ticket just inside Georgia. Driving in the mountains is difficult because of the coasting downhill, causing difficulty in maintaining speed limits. Worse, however, was learning my driver license had been revoked. I had received a speeding ticket last year and paid it, but somehow the money order I sent was not registered at the court house. I am still quite angry about that. (This is being written Saturday but the ticket was “earned” Friday.) The blessing was that the state trooper was supposed to take me to jail for driving without a license but didn’t. We returned home last night and I went to the post office where I bought the money order, and put a tracer on it. We will likely have to go to Franklin Monday and pay the fine again. I can’t wait for the tracer to find out what happened to the money order. We have to drive to Texas shortly. Evelyn worked on the church altar this morning, and we spent the afternoon watching Purdue’s version of football. We laid around the rest of the afternoon until time to go to the trout dinner at the Methodist church. The dinner is always delicious. We came home for the evening. Evelyn did water the flowers, and I will water the new grass tomorrow. The drought has been so bad in the southeast that one of the big reservoirs around Atlanta will dry up without substantial rain within the next 90 day. There are severe restrictions on water usage. It is not as bad here but certainly not good. I will sing a short solo at church tomorrow morning.