Strange guest

Monday is park meeting day. We attended and were finished by 10 and on our way home. We had received a call from Alice saying she couldn’t make lunch for us tomorrow but could have coffee and cards at 1. We will go. Evelyn worked on baking cookies for Christmas while I worked with the neighbor to see why many of our icicle lights and rope lights won’t work. He checked the continuity of all of the strands and found then fine. So why won’t the lights work? We gave up. We went to the hall for lunch and listened to some of the jam. This must have been the worst group of singers ever assembled. I don’t know how any musicians could have followed them but they did. John Hamel had come to buy our tickets for one of the McAllen concerts when we will be gone on our cruise. We decided to go to Dillons to get some cilantro seeds and tomato plants. We have been friends with them since we came to the Valley. The son gave us a mixture of lettuce seeds for our garden as well. We took them some pecan pie. We came home and talked to the new neighbor. He wanted to play golf so we went to the par 3 course again. And again I played quite well. We were finished in less than 2 hours. Evelyn had planted the garden while we were gone and had invited the neighbors across the street for supper. They had just arrived this morning, and she wanted to help them since they had not been shopping. We had the jambalaya and they seemed to enjoy it. The woman is a true boor. We could hardly get rid of them. She just stayed and stayed. Even the husband couldn’t get her to leave for quite a while. I hope to never suffer through her presence again. We cleaned up the kitchen while she stood over our shoulders, carrying on about how nice it was that she didn’t have to help with the dishes. We then worked on what we wanted to do for the first class of the Bible study. Evelyn was very tired and went to bed early. I worked on a future order of service for my Sunday service.