An exciting weekend

Saturday is the day our neighbors go to Sam’s Club and have been bringing some Ice drinks home for us.  They get them cheaper.  We are struggling to stay on the low carb diet to lose weight.  We enjoyed an omelet for breakfast, packed some meatloaf for lunch/supper and took off for Asheville.  I stopped at the Cadillac dealer and had our tire pressure indicator reset before going to Bed, Bath, and Beyond to buy some new pillows that we don’t need, to a shoe repair place to have Evelyn’s purse repaired (it was closed), and go to the movie.  We had plenty of time so we went to Belk where Evelyn found a couple of blouses to wear on our upcoming cruise.  While she tried them on, I found a discounted dress in her size, and she liked it.  We bought it for 40% off.  She didn’t save as much as she did last year, but it was a good buy.  Then it was off to see America the movie.  We arrived on time but had to sit through 22 minutes of commercials and previews.  I don’t mind a few of these but thought this was beyond reason.  Regardless, the movie was terrific.  I would suggest to anyone still reading this blog to see it ASAP.  You will get to see history as it really was, not the way some Hollywood liberal or college professor, etc. wants you to see it.  The immigrant writer/director documents the material and fairly presents both critics and supporters of America the nation.  I remember when we taught the truths of history and even remember my college professors doing the same.  Things are quite different now.  We met Dallas and Karen at the entrance to Biltmore and drove to a lagoon where we ate our dinner.  We were able to have a good conversation, catching up on their summer.  We haven’t been together as much as usual.  We went on to the wine tasting area before going out to hear the music.  We did dance to 3 or 4 numbers on the cobblestone walkways as others sat on the grass and ate their picnic suppers.  We were home by 10.

Sunday was my turn to read the OT and the epistle during worship.  The Scriptures were 2 of my favorites, especially Romans 8:38-42.  Before that I caused a mild uproar in expressing my interpretation of the Gospel lesson for the day.  In the parable of Jesus concerning the merchant finding “the Pearl of great price”, I said the pearl he found was each of the people in the class because He (God in the parable) sold all He had (His only Son) in order to buy the souls of each of us by dying on the Cross.  The pastor and I came to an agreement that each of us is a part of God’s creation which makes us small pearls as well as the rest of Creation that He made in Genesis 1.  We were blessed by Holy Communion and then returned home for lunch of one of the steaks I had grilled.  Evelyn rested in the afternoon until time to attend one of our neighbor’s 90th birthday party.  He is in a nearby nursing home and was grateful for the neighborhood’s attendance.  I at only nuts instead of cake.  We went to Lowe’s looking for a castor for our dining room chair but found none.  We continued to CVS to use our 30% discount coupon before going to Lake Junaluska to take tickets for the Folkmoot USA closing ceremony.  During the second half of the show, a terrible rain/thunderstorm occurred.  There was quite a bit of damage in the mountains but only twigs had blown down in our neighborhood.  We did have a deluge that wet things down pretty well.  We left before the performances were over but still didn’t retire until 11:30.