guests, plans, and blessed memories

We slept pretty well even though Evelyn coughed some. She slept entirely through the night. I did well too. We went to worship and had 44 attending. My sermon was exceptionally long, but we still finished early. We didn’t stay for the Bible class because I knew Evelyn had more preparation to complete and I wanted her to have some time to rest. Everything went just as planned. The guests from Manitoba arrived a bit early but we were ready. We had wine and then spaghetti. Unfortunately, Evelyn had turned up the fire a bit too much and scorched some of the sauce. The guests were served the unscorched from the top but even the bottom was not inedible. They stayed a couple of hours and then left. We made arrangements to go to the golf fun day next Saturday. It had been postponed due to cold and rain yesterday. Evelyn went back to bed, and I called Bonny to cancel our visit this evening. We rescheduled our soup meal for Tuesday. We both napped a bit while I watched the NFL playoff games. There is a large contingent of Green Bay fans in the Valley. We spent the evening reading some things about travel in Buenos Aries in preparation for our trip next February. Our friends, Tom and LuAnn Jones, are making the arrangements for our trip. They are currently in Boerne, TX but will come to the Valley around February 20. We have a bit of down time scheduled for the first of next week. Somehow we don’t get much anymore. Being retired and old wears us out as you can learn by reading previous blog entries. 47 years ago today we were blessed with our first daughter. It was an icy cold night in Hazelcrest, IL. We remember "skating" to the hospital door and our firstborn arrived about 6 hours later. We had hoped to talk with her today, but she was out celebrating with her husband.