The 74th RGV stock show

Monday was the first afternoon that we volunteered to work at the Rio Grande Valley Stock Show.  It was the most pleasant day we can ever remember for that job.  It was not windy, cold and rainy as it has been in the past nor hot, humid and still as on other occasions.  We were paired up with a couple from Thompson, MB who has been worshipping with us for 3 weeks but missed yesterday.  She is the most unhappy, grumpy woman I have met in a long time.  She is in a wheel chair or a walker, but her husband is very patient.  We enjoyed the afternoon with them despite her attitude.  Somehow I am able to entertain her without ruffling her feathers.  We just came home after working and relaxed.

Tuesday we were back at the show, this time with the son of yesterday’s couple and his wife.  They are younger and a bit more fun.  We tried to visit George and Sally Erchinger, old friends of ours and deliver them lunch.  Unfortunately their son was visiting, and we didn’t get to visit much with them.  John had come around 10 to get some facts straight for our deductions on this year’s taxes.  He has volunteered to do them for us, but I think he is going to charge.  He has done our amended returns for 2010 and 2011 before beginning this year’s.  The day was a copy of yesterday in the weather department.  We took a walk around the show grounds and saw more things than we ever had.  There were white tigers, an aviary for kids to enter with parakeets, and an alligator show.  We had thought we would go to a dinner for Relay for Life cancer survivors, but I had misread the announcement as to the date, so we just stayed home for the evening.  We learned that our neighbor has sold his mother’s unit.  She died earlier this month.  The new owners will not move in until next fall, so I will still have to mow the grass there at least 1 more time.  Rats!