Keeping things on the move

It is well that I rested more Tuesday because I worked hard Wednesday morning at church.  Brent had asked Neil and I to help him spread mulch around the shrubs.  It was not too warm but work increases the heat.  Evelyn came to get me to take her to the hospital to volunteer.  I drove her there and returned to finish our work.  I started to leave at 1 but couldn’t start the car.  It occurred to me that she had the fob in her purse, permitting me to start the car to take her there, but she had forgotten to give it to me.  Brent took me the hospital—just across the expressway—and brought me back to the car.  I came home and cleaned myself and vacuumed the carpet before I picked her up.  We came home for a snack and returned to church for choir practice. 

Thursday Gary picked me up and we headed for Whittier and the Smokey Mountain Country Club.  It is about 40 minutes away, so we left about 7:30.  We had time to hit some range balls before teeing off.  We both began poorly because we were rushing.  We only improved periodically and both finished over 100.  I must confess that is only an accurate score.  We play with both an accurate score and a legitimate score.  We often don’t remember the legitimate score.  Oddly enough, I  beat Evelyn home from her Bible study by half an hour.  That was at 1:30.  She had gone to the library to renew a book by Dr. Ben Carson, the man I hope carries the Republican nomination for President in 2016.  We were both tired and rested in the afternoon before walking around the Loop here several times. 

I thought of going to Asheville for a movie today.  We went to exercise in the morning and then showered before leaving for the east.  We went to the Grovewood Inn for lunch.  I had a Groupon for $20 that I had paid $11 for a few weeks ago.  We had eaten there a few years ago and liked it.  We shared a trout entrée.  From there we went to buy Karen Norris a plant when we visited her.  She is recovering from surgery and we wanted to visit and pray with her.  We visited for half an hour and went on to a place to see if we could get Evelyn’s purse repaired.  The shop here in Waynesville has closed, and the nearest one is in Asheville.  The proprietor promised it by Thursday.  We went on from there to see the movie, The Hundred Foot Journey.  Evelyn thought it moved too slow, but I loved it.  I recommend the movie for families and Christians who like good character studies.  I decided to make it an entire day out and took us to the Indigo Hotel where I had another coupon.  We had to spend $37.50, but the coupon was for $25.  I had paid $4 for it.  We ordered what turned out to be a huge plate of nachos.  They were different and good, but we couldn’t eat all of it.  This meant we had to take our 2 entrees home.  We did enjoy the dessert of rhubarb/strawberry tort but took the rest home.

Saturday allowed us to sleep late.  We did have orange juice before we went to the r rec center at around 11.  We had a pretty good workout before coming home for lunch around 1.  We had half of the flatbread entrees we had brought home last night.  We liked one but not the other.  We ate half of each and have the other 2 halves left for another day.  We are just lazy and demonstrated that during the afternoon.  I did call our friends, the Oefingers, and John and Sue Hamel.  We had over an inch of rain yesterday and an 80% chance today.  So far we have had a sprinkle.  I plan to go to a local square dance to visit with some friends and invite them for dinner during the next 2 weeks.   I spent most of the evening watching the Cubs.  I am really encouraged by some of the young players they have. I just hope they can pick up some better pitchers during the off season.