September 18 2011

            I just re-read the post from a year ago.  It made me smile because it told of taking our (then) two year old great granddaughter to an RV show and how much she enjoyed it – much to my surprise.  We did not go to the RV show this year and great granddaughter was in preschool so she could not have gone with us.

            This being Sunday, Ella was scheduled to work from 8 to 2.  I went to Sunday school and church and then stopped on the way home to pick up some pizza.  I took the pizza over to the clubhouse and we ate lunch together.  About 1 her relief showed up.  His wife and told him that he needed to be there at 1.  So Ella came home an hour early.

            This was another gray day with constant sprinkle of rain.  So we lie on the bed and read the Sunday paper and took a nap.  Slow raining and gray days are great for napping.

            While I was at church this morning I picked up a CD of the service I preached yesterday.  I listened to part of it on the way home in the truck.  After my nap I tried to play it on the computer.  Windows Media Player would show that there was an audio CD in the player but would do nothing with it.  I tried playing, copying and everything that I could think of.  Nothing worked.  I was finally able to play it using a different player but was unable to copy it to the computer.  Bummer!  I wanted to load it from the CD to the computer so that I could move it from the computer to my Droid X Smartphone.

            I just looked up from typing and notice Ella sitting in the near-dark cutting out coupons.  I asked if it wouldn’t be easier if she could see.  She said she had thought about it.  Then she turned on a light.

            This has been a nice day of rest.  Thank you, Lord.

September 17 2011

            Yesterday I found out that my sister, M.A.C., had been taken to the hospital.  That sounds simple, right?  It was not simple to find out.  We stopped to visit her at her apartment and were told that she was not home.  When I ask where she had gone, the reply was, “that’s all I can legally tell you.”  When I pressed for a better answer I was told to call her daughter.

            When we tried calling my niece, K.A.H., she did not know anything about it.  She said to call her sister, G.A.C.  Every time we called her number we got a “the circuits are all busy, please try again later.”  We tried leaving a message on Facebook for her but received no response.  When K.A.H.’s husband returned from work, he knew what was going on because he works in the same place as G.A.C.  Niece K.A.H. called when she found out where her mother was.  So, after a very twisted route, I finally found out where my sister was and why she was in the hospital.

            This morning, after dropping Ella at work, I went to the hospital and visited with her.  This is the same complaint that has taken her to the hospital twice before.  They have not been able to find anything wrong (at least nothing new and nothing that would cause the symptoms).  Sis’ thought that they would send her home today.  I hope that they don’t send her home without discovering what is causing her the pains in her chest.

            After I left the hospital, I stopped at Hammer Medical and bought a knee brace for myself.  Amazing! I spent about $40 for an elastic tube with a hole in it.  But, I have it on and my leg feels about 80% better.

            When I got back to Cutty’s I was just a couple minutes late in getting to the “Cutty’s Hall Meeting” (town hall meeting for a non-town community).  This will be the last monthly meeting until around Memorial Day of 2012.

            After the meeting, I came home and boxed up more knick-knacks.  These will not be moved into the new trailer.  What I envision happening is:  When we are notified that the new trailer is ready, we will unload a bunch of stuff from the old trailer onto the patio.  Then I will have the old trailer moved to storage.  While our site is empty of trailers, I will have a load of gravel brought in to level the drive.  Once that is done, we’ll set the new trailer on site and haul everything in from the patio.  We’ll see what the reality turns out to be!

            We are waiting for oldest daughter, L.A.B. to come and pick up Ella for the bridal shower this evening.  Shortly after they have left, I will head off to church where I am preaching tonight.

(insert pause here)

            I’m home from church.  We had a very small turn out tonight.  But we had fun!  Since Pastor Lee and Cathy were not there to sing in the Praise Band, they ask me to sing with them.  I did.  I’m sure that the people who stayed away did NOT know that I was going to sing, so I am not offended by their absence. (Grin)

            Ella has not returned home yet.  I have no idea when this bridal shower will be over.

September 16 2011

            I awoke about 5 o'clock this morning. 

            It was very warm in the trailer.  So, I went down to check the electric fireplace/heater and found it was 82 degrees. I turned the heat down and then went back to bed.  When I got up later this morning and found it was now 85 degrees.  As it turned out, I hadn't turned the heater down all I had done was to turn down the intensity of “flames”.
            There is a large RV show at the Iowa State Fairgrounds this weekend.  Normally we would be part of the crowd climbing in and out of trailers and motor homes.  However my legs are hurting and not up to the task.  Also, we just bought one.

            This being Friday, we had breakfast with friends on Des Moines’ eastside.  Since we did not go to the RV show (also on the east side), we stopped and picked up a card and gift for the bridal shower this weekend.

            That was the most that we did all day. 

            This was a sit home and vegetate day.

            (If you think that this was boring to read … you should have lived it)

Addendum

I had just finished typing this when the church secretary called to say that she could not find the music for one of the hymns I selected for the Saturday service.

So, I went on line and found the sheet music.  I gave the secretary the URL and she will print it for the musicians in the Praise Band.  There, now I have accomplished something today.