Farm and culture

After exercise Evelyn and Rosalie went to the Weslaco Museum but there was no children’s program as we had thought. They stayed a short while and went to the Chamber of Commerce and watched a video on sugar cane farming. After a trip to the grocery, they came home for lunch. I had practiced the sermon and order of service for Sunday and discovered a mistake I had made. I was thankful that the Lord showed it to me. Rosalie wanted to swim a bit, so I took my computer to the hall while she did. I wanted to upload some pictures to the blog but couldn’t get the Wifi there to do it. It should have since it is much faster than my aircard. We played a few rounds of shuffleboard before coming home. The girls dressed in some western garb for going to the stock show while I uploaded some pictures using my humble aircard. I was surprised. We went to the stock show to see Don and Janice’s grandchildren show their heifers. We enjoyed visiting with them and watching them curry and blow dry their cattle. They have to be as sleek as they can make them for judging. The 4 grandkids had 6 to show. The eldest boy didn’t do well. He was 3rd out of 6 in his class. The cow was unruly and dragged him on the floor of the arena after the judging. The next class had the next boy and the younger girl. The boy, Robert, won the blue ribbon. That is his heifer did. The girl was 3rd. We had to leave before the older girl could show because Joe Winston was coming to get us at 5 to go for dinner at Macaroni Grill and then to the concert featuring French Chamber music. We had a delightful Italian dinner. I went to the restroom and was surprised to hear recorded translations of English into Italian. I didn’t learn much in a short time. The chamber music group from France was unable to come to McAllen but was replaced by a similar group. The performance featured mostly strings with 1 flute and 1 piano. They performed a Mozart and a Tchaikovsky piece. The talent was amazing but we 3 adults drifted off to sleep at least once during the show. We came home for dessert and to watch some of the Purdue game I had recorded. Purdue was slaughtered, killing any chance for them to be the number 1 seed in the NCAA tournament next week.