Awake: 7:04am Temp 67 sleep 7+03 sunny overnight @ Lake Kiowa, TX.
This morning, Kathy made Easter cookies for Matthew & Andrew in the shapes of bunnies, eggs, hearts, & letters to spell out: “Happy Easter.”
Then late morning, Harold volunteers to tour us around Gainesville some more & stop @ an express shipping store to send that package to PA. From here, Harold suggests that we lunch @ one of his favorite spots: “Metzers Café” in the town of Lindsay’s where the (3) of us have some good BBQ beef with sauce & coleslaw & no bun. It was quite good.
From here, we return to Gainesville where we visit (2) old churches in town. They are not painted so-to-speak as were the (4) we visited near Schulenburg, but they are old. 1st church, St. Paul Episcopalian, an English Gothic style building, was dedicated in 1885. Inside, the fellow I talked with (retired electrical engineer) was very happy to show us how he converted the gas lights on the walls to electricity. No easy task as he literally ran separate wires from below the floor level, notched a channel up the concrete wall to where the gas lamps were hung & pulled the wires through the conduit to make the connection. This task took many months & the priest + the congregation were very impressed with his efforts & the results. Kathy & Harold spent some time talking with the priest especially about a shrine to Mary in England.
The 2nd church, First United Methodist, is nearly as old; no one was inside so we simply walked around & admired the architecture & inside structure. This red brick Gothic style building with art Nouveu stained glass windows was dedicated in1893.The organ pipes were beautifully painted. Harold also drove by the modern Methodist church he & Clair attend in Gainesville. We make a quick stop @ the Home Depot in town where Harold talks with someone about visiting his home to give an estimate on some double pane windows.
Back @ the H & C home, we are introduced to Harold’s heavy weight attic lift platform in the garage. It’s remote controlled & is actually a boat lift that lifts a square platform & whatever is placed on that platform. Weight limit: 3000 lbs. The square platform is simply a part of the ceiling when retracted. I like it!
Our happy hr, though a little earlier, was great as usual with limited snacks; we have to eat early since Harold has to leave at 7:00 for his weekly poker game. Kathy makes a dinner of: stuffed peppers, salad & bread. We wish Harold “good luck” and return to our home on wheels.
Late movie: “Only Angels Have Wings” with Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, etc. A tale of professional pilots who fly the mail through treacherous weather & terrain in South America. 1939. Hey, it’s a good story & has airplane action; I’m all for it!
High temp=84 Lights out: 12:02am
Leave a comment