Friday morning

It is sunny and around 80 at 11:00 a.m. I only work a half day on Fridays and this morning has been relatively quiet. I’ve updated the checkbooks and Quick Books; typed minutes of the latest committee meeting, caught up on the filing, answered numerous phone calls and checked on the people on the sick list.

Wednesday

We got a lot of heavy damaging rain yesterday and there is a 60% chance of more today, according to the forecast. Rain blew in the church in places that hadn't been leaking before and we've got water all over the building in different places. It's a real mess. None in the office, though. It even blew in around the edges of the stained glass window in the sanctuary and soaked the big Bible that was on the altar table by the pulpit.

When Sis was going home yesterday, she turned on a side street and there was a large tree down across the street so she had to turn around and go back to another street. Many trees and large branches were down throughout the city, and a lot of people lost their electricity. Ours went out at least long enough that we had to reset the electric clocks.

There were so many roads and intersections closed due to high water yesterday that the city ran out of the road closed signs and had to order 150 more brought in.

At our house we had some smaller branches down but nothing like I saw on TV and around other streets. We got more rain with thunder and lightning during the night, but I didn't go out and check the back yard before I left for work this morning, so I don't know if we have any more down.

One lady I was talking to on the phone a few minutes ago said they got 3 inches at their house yesterday and another 3 inches overnight.

The Methodist church in LaVernia, Texas about 20 or 30 miles from here, lost its roof in 70 per mile winds overnight. It stripped it right down to the wood framework. It showed pictures of it on the internet news this morning.

We did have a sunny afternoon, but more rain is forecast for tonight and it has been thundering.

Sis bought a flag today and hung it on the front of the house.

We went to the park and walked several laps around the walking path. I walked a total of a little over a mile.

Then we went to IHOP and had breakfast.

We did have the administrative council meeting at church yesterday. I left early because Sis called. She had walked to her church and got bitten by a dog on the way, so she didn't want to walk back home. I went and picked her up. Fortunately the bite didn't break the skin. It was a little Shi Tzu that ran out in the street as she was passing and bit her.

I went back to church until the meeting finished; then she and I went to the Little Red Barn for lunch.

We had sweet potato pancakes for breakfast..from a mix. They were very good, with some of Nancy's fig jam on them.

We went to Wendy's for lunch and I had the apple-pecan salad.

This afternoon we went to the ice cream festival at church. It was very nice, although the turnout wasn't as good as we had hoped. Since it is the Labor Day weekend, a number of people were out of town or otherwise engaged.

While we were there, we got word that one of the older members had fallen yesterday and broken his shoulder cap. He is home but won't be able to come to church tomorrow. His daughter will take him to see the orthopedic surgeon on Tuesday.

We had planned to have an administrative council meeting tomorrow after the morning church service, but this man is the chairperson of the administrative council. I don't know if they will go ahead and have it anyway. I'll just have to wait and see.

I traded in my cell phone on the "new every 2" plan. The new one is black; the old one was red. Other than that, it doesn't look a whole lot different than the one I had before. Of course everything is different, from the ring tones to the way to add or edit contacts and how to assign pictures or ring tones to different contacts.

We ate supper at Luby's in the mall, then came home and I have been "playing" with the phone ever since, trying to get it set up.

Monday, Aug 30, 2010

I went to the lab and got my blood drawn before going to work this morning. The doctor sent me to a different lab than last time and I didn't realize it until I got to the one I usually go to. Fortunately it was practically next door.

It was a fasting blood test, so I had to wait until I got to work to have breakfast and take my medicine. I had taken a peanut butter sandwich and a can of grapefruit juice along to have for breakfast.

It was quiet at work, but I had the usual Monday paperwork to do.

For supper we had cornbread and beans and watermelon. I didn't eat any beans since they affected me so badly the last time.

I got the car filled with gas after I got off work. It was 11 cents per gallon cheaper than when I last had it filled on July 28th. It was 2.44.9 per gallon this afternoon.

Saturday afternoon

We had to run an errand on the other side of town this morning. On the way home we ate breakfast at Jim's Restaurant. I had scrambled eggs with biscuit and gravy and coffee. It was delicious.

We stopped at a yard sale also. They didn't have a lot that we were interested in, but Sis did find a small ceramic water fountain.

For lunch we just had bagels with cream cheese.

This afternoon I made a loaf of sourdough French bread in the bread machine. It isn't quite done yet, but is in the bake cycle and is smelling delicious. The big challenge of baking bread in a bread machine is not to eat the whole loaf at one sitting. It is so delicious, hot with butter.