What have we been doing?

Life has been busy as usual. Evelyn had an LWML meeting to plan a zone rally. I also had our Lunch with the Lord Bible study. Once again, we had only 3 in attendance, and just the pastor and I at our prayer meeting. I enjoy going to the altar to praise Him. Before going to church, I talked with Gene, our neighbor, about buying a 22 automatic pistol from him. He let me fire it and gave me a booklet of instructions to read. I think a pistol might come in handy sometime if the drug cartels get any more dangerous in Texas. Friday was a productive day. I took my Groupon to the Interstate Battery store and learned that they had a better price on them than other stores. It rained in the morning but had stopped by the time we went to work at the hospital. Saturday was the big zone rally. I took Evelyn to church at 8:30 and went off to get more hearing aid batteries. I had bought 3 Groupons because that was the limit. I now know where to get my batteries. I returned to help 2 other men serve lunch to the ladies attending the rally. I always have fun serving our Lord. After cleaning up a bit, I came home to watch Purdue play Penn State. They lost but played pretty well. I wish their schedule was not so tough. I don't know whether they can win 3 more games to become Bowl eligible. Evelyn was tired so we just stayed home after the meeting. Actually, we are both a bit ill since we got our flu shots. Our neighbor first complained, and about a cold after the shot. 2 days later, I began to get sick. Evelyn followed me. She often has trouble sleeping and is often tired. She is doing even worse now. Sunday brought a wonderful worship and Holy Communion. We hurried home for lunch before meeting some friends from Sylva to go to a square dance to raise money for our caller. His wife had died Thursday. The benefit dance had been planned for several weeks. We didn't get to dance much because Emily called and talked for about an hour. At least we got to sit for a while. The Y where the dance was held had no chairs and the acoustics were terrible. We were happy to leave. We went to a type of oriental restaurant for dinner with Tom and Melanie, the couple we rode with. Evelyn was not very satisfied with the choice of locations. We came back to our rendezvous point, jumped into our car, and drove to Maggie Valley for the final band concert of the year. Our choir director leads a women's singing group that sang. After stopping for ice cream, we came home and retired early. It was a good thing because our colds forced us both to be awake from 2-4. We even slept late on Monday. Instead of exercising, we went to hook up our trailer and brought it to our house. I wanted to get the heavier items toward the front. It is a bit early, but we couldn't do anything until the heavy things were loaded. We took a rest in the afternoon before going to the square dance lessons. I forgot the time and we were an hour early. Then the dance was really a review because a substitute caller could not be found. One of the couples just had us walk through about half of the lesson's moves that had been covered. We will finish next week. Tom had brought me some wine to take south.