Awake: 5:52am Temp 54 sleep 6+43 rain…heavy @ times overnight @ Nicktown.
This rain is remnants of Hurricane Fay & will probably be with us for a while. There goes our plan to finish the painting job we were working on.
K & I attend 8:00am Mass & afterward, Florentz gives us fresh corn on the cob & tomatoes. We thank him profusely for the fresh veggies & plan on inviting him over for a visit when schedules permit. Then we join our KK meeting for nearly an hr.
Next, to the post office & pick up our mail; about this time, we hear a car horn alarm beeping; it stopped briefly & then continued for a longer time. We couldn’t see the vehicle that was beeping due to other cars blocking the view in the post office parking lot. It was raining fairly hard @ this time & we were both hiding under our umbrellas ….here comes this lady with only a babushka asking me to help her with her car….it’s Rosemary. “Certainly I will help” I told her. First I ask her for the car’s owner manual & find it in the glove compartment; going to the index, I find the alarm section, read about it & then ask Rosemary to give me her car door key. With her door closed, I lock it with the key & then unlock it with the key; the alarm beeping stops. Whew! Rosemary thanks us & we are both on our way.
Today is Rotary; I hope our new caterer will be our cook today. I told Al that I have other plans for after the meeting & ask if he could drive his own car; “no problem” he says. Before leaving, K & I watch & listen to the recorded Senator Biden’s speech of yesterday.
Lunch was terrific: pigs in a blanket, corn, potatoes, buns & (2) pies; cherry & apple. We like this new caterer already. After the meeting, I top off our Suzuki’s fuel tank with 12.6 gal @ 3.60 per gal. Then drive to Spangler & pickup my ole classmate buddy Charlie & bring him to our motorhome. Kathy needs to use the car so Charles & I will play catch up on each other’s lives.
Charlie & I hung out together quite a bit during our high school days & we always had fun. His good sense of humor, casual approach to the young girls & dancing skills helped me, in a way, to overcome my shyness & to tell bad jokes. Today, Charlie is retired, married close to (40) yrs with (4) children & several grandchildren. We have no problem talking so our (2) hrs go quickly; Kathy returns with plenty of groceries & I return Charlie to Spangler & his homestead.
As we pull into a parking spot near the homestead, his older brother, John, joins us & invites me to go next door to visit Danny, another close classmate who graduated a year before us. I hadn’t seen Danny since his graduation; now I see him recovering from an operation. He tells us he’s been healthy all these yrs & now all of a sudden, trouble. I let him know that he’ll be in our prayers for a quick recovery. Then Charlie & John lead me next door to visit briefly with their mother, Betty. She’s just as quick & sharp as in the ole days but her knees & legs are troubling her. Next month she will turn (94). Because it’s past dinner time, we don’t talk too long & I return to Nicktown.
Our dinner tonight: BLT’s and were they ever good!
We watch the O’Reilly Factor while I clean the dishes & then, watch the Obama Democratic Convention @ the Investo Field in Denver, CO with 84,000 people attending.
Lights out: 11:46pm
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