playing with elk

Saturday we walked early and then went to the UPS store to see if they could tell me the cost of shipping the putter from CA. They could only give me an estimate, but I bet it is close. We came home and Evelyn was still feeling a bit woozy in the tummy so she lay down while I cleaned some coffee stains from the back floorboard carpet. I also transplanted our three tomato plants into a larger pot and tried to stake them up. I watered them and took them to the south side of the house for optimum sunshine. Evelyn got up, better, and made us a sausage with sautéed onion and bell pepper sandwich. It was after noon but we had to meet our friends at 3 so we had a time constraint. During the time after lunch, Emily called and we talked about their visit. They are now planning to arrive here June 26. We will be together with all of them 4 days or so before we leave with the boys. We packed our picnic basket with a strawberry pie she had made this morning and some other supplies. I brought in a cooler, packed it with some sodas and ice packs, and we began to leave. Suddenly I realized that we might need some chairs so I put 2 and a roll up table into the hatch and off we went. We went to the Monteiths, Mickey and Frances, and from there to Bo Jangles to get some chicken for our picnic. We drove up to a place called Cataloochee, a meadow where elk that have been introduced into the area come down to eat near dusk. The site is 10 miles up a curvy road, some of which is gravel. We got up there and looked at a house and school built by a family that settled in that area in 1903. By now it was near 6 (and still no elk) so we took our goodies to a picnic table right in the meadow. We prayed and ate. Just as we finished the long awaited elk arrived. We weren’t very close then but did see 11 in the meadow. On our way out the elk mosied over to where we were very close, close enough to take some pictures. We drove slowly down the mountain and took our friends home. We had planned to go in for coffee but were all too tired. We came home and relaxed during the evening. I wrote checks for the shipping and for the set of Ping clubs I had bought from our friend in Texas.