Contemporary worship with friends

The alarm served us again. We were up much earlier than we needed to be. I dealt with some computer issues while Evelyn did some of the stretching exercises with the video. We left around 10 to drive to Asheville to worship with John Greene. I needed gas and was shocked to find gas at $2.459 at the station normally the cheapest in the area. I only got 4 gallons and drove on to worship. The contemporary service is held in the Lutheran school gymnasium. It was very cold in there and the attendance was down about half, probably due to the holiday weekend. Afterward we went with John, his wife Lisa (an optometrist) and their son Adam. We enjoy being with them. We left them and went to K-Mart to get a radio headset for my birthday--a month away. They had none so we went to Radio Shack and found one. I didn’t want to buy it so early but the price was right. We left there and drove on to Hancock Fabrics to get some apron material for the granddaughters to sew into aprons for their dresses. We found things at half price. Thanks be to God. We then returned home and tuned in to the Cubs game. Their run production is not any better. We were grieved to receive a call from our friend Bill Oefinger. He told us that his wife Shirley had a kidney removed in April and is thought to have a slow growing lymphoma. We used to camp beside them at the Purdue football games and have visited them at their home several times. We may make a special trip to Indiana to visit her. We ate some leftovers and then went to walk around the lake. We returned home, enjoyed some popcorn, and tried to watch a movie from the library, “ Landscape in the Mist”. It was in a foreign language with subtitles. Evelyn can’t read very fast and the plot was too slow moving. We gave up on it and found a movie on the Gospel Music Channel called “Solomon” We have also been preparing for tomorrow’s party by cleaning and arranging furniture.