Canadian guests

Thursday is sermon tweaking day. I walked around the park and stopped after at the coffee table. Another Bob had put a 5th of vanilla liqueur on the table and was encouraging each of us to have some. I added it to my coffee and it tasted like cappuccino. I liked it. In fact I had two coffees. I walked home and worked on the sermon. For some reason my internet connection failed and by 1 PM was still not running. I wanted to check to see if my credit card payments had been taken from the credit union. I can’t check it off line. Between checks on the internet, I kept at the sermon and prayers for Sunday. I think I have them done. The bad news is that I need to plan sermons and worship services for upcoming weeks but need to be on line to do that. I must keep trying. I also put new batteries into the wireless indoor/outdoor thermometer we brought from NC. We had leftovers on the porch because it was a pleasant 80 degrees. Of course it was cooler in the shade. At lunch Evelyn decided she would like to have another pad party. She named three couples so I set out to invite them. Two of the three were not home when I looked, but the other couple will come at 5. Perhaps the other two will be back soon. As I took a break, the internet decided to work again. Evelyn finished her preparations and laid down for a rest. She gets tired easily and we thank God we are at the period of our lives that she can take a nap almost at will. I went around the neighborhood looking for people to come since one of the primaries was having visitors themselves. I went to get the mail and invited three people there but am doubtful that they will come. I returned and on the way found another couple from Manitoba to invite. He is a vegetarian and we have wanted to invite them for dinner but never knew what to serve. All the snacks we have tonight are meatless so I grabbed the opportunity. I came home and checked on the charge card payments but none had been made. At 5 our invited guests arrived and we enjoyed the hors doerves Evelyn had made. We also served beer, wine and pina coladas. They left before 7. It was a beautiful evening, mild and calm. We thank God for allowing us to live here in the winter.