Fantastic guitarist

Sunday was an exciting day.  We had 43, most of the season, worship and be blessed by Holy Communion with us at Trail’s End.  We then rushed to Llano Grande to bring the same message to 260 people there.  We came home to watch both Tim Tebow’s Broncos and the Packers lose their playoff game.  Many of our friends from Wisconsin will be sad for a week.  They are probably the most devoted fans in virtually any sports town in the country.  We intended to invite Joe and Bonny over to talk about the concert tomorrow and play a game.  The final result was that they invited us for a salad supper and a game of Sequence.  We learned that they cannot go with us tomorrow because of a voter’s meeting at church.  They gave us their tickets to sell o give away.

Evelyn went to exercise this morning while I mowed our grass, the neighbor’s grass and his mother’s grass across the street.  I also rode to the pharmacy to get the prescriptions I had left Friday, but they had expired and the doctor’s office was closed because of MLK day.  I had planned to go to the bank and some other drug stores for bargains in the afternoon, but Evelyn decided I should go Wednesday.  I just rode around the park asking about a dozen people if they wanted the tickets.  Finally I found one man who was interested.  We drove him and our 2 widows to dinner and the concert.  We left at 4:30 and drove to McAllen.  Evelyn tried unsuccessfully to enter the address of the restaurant, so everyone in the car decided to give directions all together.  I decided not to take the abuse and stopped the car and gave the wheel to Evelyn.  We have 3 more concerts to attend, but I will never drive that bunch anywhere again.  We found the restaurant but were quite early.  We ate and then walked around the mall.  We went to Best Buy and found a deal on a TV and installation.  I may go back tomorrow and buy one.  We went to the concert featuring Edgar Cruz.  He was phenomenal.  I have seen few artists with more talent.  He played many styles of music on his 2 guitars.  He was anything but humble but “If you can do it, it ain’t braggin’”.  He could do it!  I saw something I have never seen.  He played with both hands.  His right hand played most of the bass notes and his left played the treble.  I always thought the left hand only shortened the strings, but he played with both hands.  I seldom give the performers a standing ovation but did this one.  One of the songs he played was “In the Mood” and he offered a free CD to the first 2 couples to come forth to dance.  We had seats near the front and were the 2nd couple.  We won one of his early recordings.   We were home shortly after 10.  Tomorrow we may go dancing in the afternoon.