A great time at Biltmore

Thursday Evelyn went to Silver Sneakers while Marty and I played 18 holes of golf.  I played better than I have played for some time.  Both she and I broke 100.  Evelyn had a great day too, especially after she came home.  Thursday evening we watched a movie from the library called something like “Running Mate” starring Tom Selleck.  It was pretty good. 

Friday we went to the Rec center to work out on some of the machines and walked.  We are not infatuated with the workout classes any longer.  We went on to take 2 pillows to be reupholstered with the same material we used to recover the couch.  We can get them done for $22 each but not for 3 weeks because they are covered with work.  We had invited Gary and Linda for supper of spicy chicken chili.  They had been forced to eat sandwiches all week because Gary had been working all week to remove their kitchen counter.  It has been a terribly difficult job that eliminating doing any cooking.  They really appreciated the chili.  We visited for a while before they left.  Linda gets up at 4 AM every morning.  We walked 3 times around our loop and then watched some of “Ring of Fire”, the movie about June Carter Cash.  We were tired and went to bed a bit earlier than usual.

Saturday was the flea market for June.  It is held at the fairgrounds 1/2 mile from here.  We didn’t get there until around 10:30 but didn’t find anything we wanted to buy.  Actually we went to buy some strawberries but were too late.  The vendor had only 1 gallon left, but another person bought before us.  We went on to the local farmer’s market and found a farmer with many gallons of berries.  We bought 1 and brought it home.  Evelyn cleaned them and prepared a strawberry pie to take to Dallas and Karen’s in the afternoon.  They had invited us to go to a barbecue dinner at a local church.  We did that and then we got into their 1966 Mustang convertible and drove took the Blue Ridge Parkway to the Vanderbilt mansion for a wine tasting and some music.  We also found some cheese ball mixes for some future parties.  There was a jazz duo playing in an outdoor pavilion and we danced a couple of numbers.  The patio was rough making it difficult to dance, but I don’t like to dance to jazz anyway.  We had to drive on the Expressway on the way home, causing the girls in the small back seat to get windblown.  Evelyn said she loved the ride.  We went back to Norris’ for the pie and then came home for a good night’s rest.