4days at once--a new record

Wow! It is really easy to get behind. Thursday we were scheduled to play with the kitchen band at a local nursing home but couldn’t go because the institution had a conflict. We rested during the day and took naps. Thursday evening we went to the local Gideon camp Christmas party. It was held near Monte Alto on a huge farm owned by a corporation. The manager of the farm was our host. He had a house that was supplied by the corporation he manages for. It had been renovated 5 years ago and was beautiful.

Friday was hectic. It began with my arising at 6:15, driving the golf cart to the outback, rearranging the room and waiting for the people to arrive for the AARP Driver Safety class. 19 were signed up but only 7 came, and one of those was a walk in. I drove back with my supplies, grabbed a light lunch with Evelyn and off we went to the hospital for our volunteering session. This happened to be the day of the hospital Christmas party. There is always a nice meal and a generous give away of some very nice prizes. We have won some in the past but weren’t there in time to enter. We had finished our shift but didn’t have to on party day. It was all right. We came home, changed clothes and went to the dance we were to work. There were far too many scheduled to work, but we stayed for most of the dance anyway. We were the only workers there who had had any experience. By then I was wearing out and so was Evelyn. We came home, and she watched “The Great Gatsby”. I went to bed at 9, thinking I would get up and work after a nap. I didn’t move until around 3, went to the bathroom, and returned to bed until around 8.
I got up Saturday and made us omelets for breakfast. We went to the DonWes flea market to see what we could find. We bought a few knick knacks, including an American flag for our house. We came home without having lunch out. We began washing the golf cart which wasn’t easy because we had to roll down the isinglass curtains. They had never been rolled down before and were full of dirt that had been dampened by all the summer rains. We had to scrub them off with nothing hard to scrub against. We had some pizzas, so we decided to invite Rose and Armand for dinner. They came and we talked as we watched Purdue play basketball. They left around 8 and I went to bed early again.

I was up at 6:45 and working on the service before taking a shower and leaving for Trail’s End. We had 32 attenders, but I didn’t think I had a good delivery. The message was the last of the series. It began as Jesus is coming as Savior, as Lord and today as Judge. Today I emphasized that our God is a loving God whereas Islam’s god doesn’t care for people at all. We left there and went to visit Tom Kruse. He is now in a room with another man who had a stroke. The room reeks because that man doesn’t have his depends changed often enough. Both Judy, his wife, and his brother were there too. His brother comes to shave him each week. We came home, ate lunch and took a nap. Evelyn then went to walk on a treadmill while I rolled up the isinglass curtains on the golf cart. I began looking for our telephone but couldn’t find it. I went to Tom Crouch’s to visit with him, and he called the phone after I arrived home. Neither Evelyn heard it in the car nor I in the house. It has begun to concern me. We went to the park entertainment and asked our local computer guru who said ATT can locate the phone using some sort of GPS system. We will go to the store tomorrow. The entertainment was poor at best. The man tried to get the audience involved but was often off key, off note, and off words. (He couldn’t remember them.)