Apples and eggheads

Friday I took Evelyn to exercise and went off to see the audiologist.  My aids don’t work satisfactorily even though they came back from the manufacturer just 2 weeks ago.  I met with the young doctor who adjusted them, trying to correct the crackling I often hear.  I pray this corrects things because my warranty expires in November.  I went to the local college to have my haircut, returned to the rec center to get Evelyn and brought her back for a haircut as well.  We were late for our Bible study but had brought pictures from our trip to Israel to show the group since we had been talking about Jerusalem.  We were 2 of 3 who had been there.  We brought our freshly cut hair home and took a nap.  I hadn’t mentioned we had both wakened at 3:30 and not been able to go back to sleep, so we were both quite tired.  We slept about 2 hours and then readied ourselves to meet friends for dinner at Maggie’s Galley.  They are Surfus and Koch.  We met them and had a common background in being from Indiana.  We had been hungry for seafood and had a great meal.  It was especially nostalgic in that the restaurant will stop serving at the present rustic location because the road it is on will be widened.  We left there shortly after 7 and went to a free dance at the rec center.  Evelyn had made a Mexican bean dip to share.  Others had brought things too, but we had just eaten and weren’t hungry.  The exercise leader played CDs, and a good time was had by all.  An interesting fact is that there were few men but at least twice as many women.  Evelyn and I may have been the only married couple there.  We came home and, thank God, slept completely though the night.

Saturday is football day.  I usually watch Purdue and had planned to today although I expected a big loss.  We were up early and went downtown to the apple festival.  It was another gorgeous autumn day, and everyone in the county must have agreed.  Evelyn had wanted to buy some apples to take with us so we went.  We arrived there at 10:30, and I thought we could make it home in time to see the 12 noon kickoff.  We bought our apples and then went to Mast General Store to look at some half priced shoes.  Evelyn didn’t like any but did find a gift for Andrew.  There were so many cars in the parking garage that we took 15 minutes to leave.  Therefore, we got home later than planned.  As it turned out, that didn’t make any difference: the game was blocked out in this area.  That was a surprise since nearly no one follows those teams around here.  I wish I hadn’t followed it on Gametracker either.  I have never seen a team throw away a game so effectively as Purdue did.  They led until 1:30 to go in the game and couldn’t tackle anyone.  I was bummed the rest of the day.  We walked 3 times around the loop before supper and then watched a movie.