Disappointment: no rain

Tuesday is Bible study day.  We walked earlier and attended the study at 10.  Reddels are using a DVD from Focus on the Family of a tour of the Holy Land led by Ray Vanderlan.  We always learn much Biblical history from his talks.  Evelyn had declared this no cook day, so we asked Don and Donna to go to Border Barbecue with us.  They are very picky eaters: they don’t like barbecue and don’t eat fish.  We did find something they could eat and had a good visit.  They had chicken tenders.  We were home by 1 and took a nap.  I was in the process of retyping a sermon from 1999 that I will use in Sunday’s worship, so I had plenty to do.  I like to bring the older messages up to date by including some current illustrations.  I have measured our carry-on suitcase and find it to be too large.  I called Bonny to see if they had any we could borrow.  She had one 9X14X22—the correct measurements.  I ended up inviting her and Joe and their son Randy to meet us at the Blue Onion for supper.  I had a coupon and wanted to try their chicken and sausage gumbo.  It happened that it was on the menu only on Tuesday, but they were all out of it.   We had a salad and a sandwich.  We watched Purdue lose there before coming home.  Evelyn has gone into her no sleep mode again and is always tired.  She is unwilling to just stay in bed without sleeping, so she walks around in a partial daze.

Wednesday is the German dinner day for this year.  We met John and Sue for the dinner but later than we thought.  He was shuffling and winning, so they couldn’t make it to the happy hour festivities.  I had played golf during the late morning and early afternoon, so I worked on emails while Evelyn was able to catch about an hour’s sleep.  We met Hamels and 10 other couples from Ranchero Village at the dinner/dance.  Our friends, the Bauknechts, came with the big group.  They are trying to sell their unit and don’t plan to return next season.  They are from Winnepeg and likely will never be in our presence again.  We didn’t have much opportunity to talk with Heinz and Alice because theywere seated at the other end of the table.  We didn’t dance much after dinner although the band was quite good—Bellows and Brass.  We were both tired and Evelyn’s leg is hurting again.  We were home by 8 and in bed by 10:30.  At least I was.  Evelyn went down about 8:30.

 

These are our friends, Paul and Betty Volkmer, who we stood up for lunch. They came to visit for lunch at our house.

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Here is the set of the play, Star Spangled Girl that we attended with John and Sue at the Tower theater in Weslaco this past Saturday.