Eating out

Monday it was back to exercise.  I am not pleased with the leader for the same reason as last year: he doesn’t give enough advance notice as to what the exercise will be.  He is already on #2 or 3 before many of us can get started.  I will return if Evelyn wants to.  There other exercises we can do.  We spent the rest of the day settling into home.  I am not making swift progress on rearranging our small storage shed but will keep trying.  We want to invite our neighbor, Doris, for a showing of our Israel pictures, but she was too tired tonight.

We didn’t exercise Tuesday because I had a Groupon I wanted to use before it expired.  The restaurant was in Brevard, a small mountain town.  The drive is up a curvy road that is somewhat of a challenge.  It passes the Cradle of Forestry and Sliding Rock where we have taken the grandchildren in the past.  The town is quite lovely and artsy.  We thought it more attractive than Waynesville where we live.  We meandered around several art galleries until time for lunch.  The restaurant was upscale and the food was very good.  The problem was that we had missed reading that the Groupon was good only in the evening.  We had debated last night which meal we should use it for but didn’t notice the restriction.  We didn’t want to return before the expiration date—May 1—so I went to several stores trying to sell the Groupon.  I finally did find a storekeeper that wanted the $30 meal for $15.  So I got my money back.  We were home around 2 and rested.  I finally went to Gene’s to talk with him about parking the trailer and other small talk.  He is not well and must see the doctor on Thursday about some complications from his surgery last summer.  That reminded me to call our dermatologist for an appointment.  We see him July 19.  We spent the evening as we do most: watching TV and preparing for Bible study.

Wednesday we left for Cherokee in the rec center operated school bus.   We planned to have breakfast at Paula Deen’s new restaurant in the Harrah’s Casino.  Evelyn is always interested in new things in the food industry.  Just as in Paula’s restaurant in Savannah, we were unimpressed with the offerings.  What we had was good but not unusual and was overpriced.  We had a bit of a verbal scuffle with another Silver Sneakers member with us.  She is a staunch liberal Obama supporter and questioned Evelyn’s having a brain because Evelyn questioned the support for members of the Muslim Brotherhood in their search for jobs in the current administration.  Things were quiet thereafter.  The group went to the Cherokee museum, but we went to a local Cherokee Indian gem shop to look for a stone for Evelyn to put into a ring.  Shed had lost the original set.  She found one and left the ring to be repaired and shipped to us.  We were home around 2:30, and she went to bed.  She has been having severe pain in her left hip and leg.  She is tough and continues to walk but really hobbles.  She also didn’t sleep well last night.  I got our neighbor, Marty, and we went to play golf at Iron Tree.  The course is really in good shape now that the new owner has worked to improve it.  The greens are 100% better and the fairways are much improved.  My problem—aside from my skill level—is that the geezer tee boxes have been moved farther away from the greens than last year.  I jokingly complained to the owner about that.  I made it home just in time to quickly eat and go to choir practice.  We had a good rehearsal, and I was able to deliver 4 bottles of vanilla to Jo.  I told her she would have to will them to her heirs if she didn’t sell some to other people.  We had a rain shower and may have more tomorrow.  It has finally begun to warm up here.  Evelyn doesn’t like the cold weather.