Our first worship of the summer.

Friday Marty and I went to Weaverville to play golf at Reems Creek golf course.  We played once last year and liked the course.  We had to start at 9:30 and found the temperature to be cool.  We dressed for the temperature, but it began to warm up around noon.  The wind was somewhat strong keeping things tolerable.  Unfortunately we played terribly.  Both of us.  It was so bad that we didn’t even bother keeping score on the back 9.  We were home around 2, and I showered, dressed and we left for Asheville.  We had planned to go to the baseball game, but Karen had called and backed out because she thought it was too cold.  I wanted to look for another suitcase at the big Goodwill store in Asheville.  We found nothing until after going to the Lifeway Christian bookstore.  Evelyn spotted a Goodwill store where we found a very nice large International Traveler model.  We had completed my mission and drove south to Fletcher to find the Blue Sky Café.  We used the GPS but found it took us to an empty field.  We asked a few people and finally found it.  We had a supper that was very good and had to take out a 3rd meal to meet the spending requirements.  I bought us a Blizzard on the way home.  We were tired after a good day.

Saturday we began serious packing.  I had to gather up our items to take to the dump site because my containers were all full.  On the way back I went to the flea market looking for another suitcase.  I couldn’t find one with wheels and just came home during the afternoon we gathered some twigs from our yard and cut the dead wood out of our knockout roses.  We put them into our galvanized barrels and tried to take them to Bollinger’s but couldn’t get our hatch closed.  Michael had offered his truck to use for our transport but didn’t want to do it today.  I left them at his house across the street from us.  We then went to Lake Junaluska and walked a short while before coming home to continue packing.  We also watched the Kentucky Derby.  I don’t really know why, but we enjoy horse racing.  Perhaps it is because we were able to to the the Oaks races a few years ago.  These are the races featuring the fillies in the race before the Derby.  It is held the day before and is much less expensive.

Sunday we had a meeting after worship to finalize some items related to the calling of a new pastor for our church.  We were then off to Bridgett’e Bistro for a brunch.  I had a coupon for $25 off the meal that I had paid $4 for.  (read that aloud) We went with a couple from the church that is very active.  We went to the HART area theater to usher for a performance of “To Kill a Mockingbird”.  The play was well done and the set was great as always.  We only stayed until intermission because we had invited Gary and Linda for popcorn.  We had a good time playing dominoes with some ancient tiles we didn’t know we had.  We thought we had a good set but couldn’t find them.  We will look further.  We spoke with Emily twice today and sent Rosalie pictures of some masks we will take for them to use in a masquerade ball she and Andrew will attend while we are there.  We are gearing up for our trip next week.