A “lost” check and bike ride.

Monday was a bit of a relaxation.  We went to work out: Evelyn to Sneakers, and I to work out independently.  We were home by 10:30.  The wind was extremely intense, nearly 50 MPH but warm.  We chose today to wash the car and our golf car.  I have had the isinglass curtains down for a long time.  The dust here just collects on everything and had done quite a job on the inside of the curtains.  Evelyn worked on that.  I also worked off and on with the next message.  The vehicles look much better waiting for the next dust storm.  We took a bike ride around the parks in the evening.

Tuesday began with a look at the door closer that had ripped from the door jamb yesterday.  I got advice from the man in charge of the wood shop in our park. I took items to be recycled and stopped for some plastic wood on the way home but was told it wasn’t strong enough to hold the screw into the jamb.  I went to the Bible study as usual while Evelyn went to ride with the bike club in Port Isabel.  There is a neat, high dollar living area there that is fun to tour.  They all went to lunch at Pelican Station where they serve delicious shrimp among other dishes.  She brought me some fish covered with crawfish etouffee.  I hadn’t goe with them because I had to lead the AARP driver safety class.  There were 22 in attendance, and I finished right on the 4 hour mark.  I came home and began to figure the checks and attenders.  I came up $12 short.  I thought I had lost a check.  I didn’t have time to track it down because we had planned to go to Alamo Country Club for what we thought would be a woman acting parts of some women of the Bible.  Instead she sang a series of Christian patriotic songs.  It was very good but not what we had expected.  John and Sue had gone to an Elvis revue and called on their way home.  We planned to meet at the Wisconsin Synod church before going to dance.

Evelyn went to exercise while I rode to the other RV park connected to this one looking for the lost check.  2 women had come with cash only yesterday, so 2 people included them in their payment checks.  I thought perhaps a check had blown away or accidently not been removed from the checkbook.  After further review I found I had misadded the checks, realizing I had not lost any.  I also had to hunt around our park looking for a woman who had not signed her check.  I found her in the afternoon.  I also rode to Leisure World to pay the tuition of our adopted Mexican student.  The cost for the year is $240.  That is his college tuition.  We went to worship in the afternoon and learned that John was exhausted and could not go dancing.  They had bought a new car yesterday before going to the Elvis tribute and not getting home until 11:30 last night.  We decided to skip dancing until tomorrow night.  We had chopped and cooked gumbo in the morning, so we enjoyed it for our supper.  It was delicious.  Evelyn makes excellent gumbo for a Yankee.