Two More Weeks of Less Than Exciting Events

We did a few more things these past two weeks, some in preparation for leaving.  I worked one more shift at the Thrift Store and that will be it until October.  

I attended our Senior Pals meeting at church over one weekend.  I helped start this group back in 2003 but got involved with Newcomers and Forum, people more my age back then, but now we fit right in!  

Ted made a trip to Dallas to check on their paper supply and how it is running at Dow Jones.  All was good.  

We joined Senior Pals for lunch at Olive Garden and started meeting some new people.  It is very heavy on women, light on men, but we sat with a couple and enjoyed ourselves.  

Our friend Tommy who we have known for a long time from Texas Boomers, had a heart attack and needed a stent put in to clear a 99% blocked “widow maker” artery.  He was very lucky.  They are one other couple who had sold their motorhome last year when he was put on the liver transplant list.  I don’t know if I mentioned their friend we got to know while camping, was diagnosed with brain cancer and died in six weeks.  They too sold their motorhome just before he died. Our friend Tom with bladder cancer, is doing well after chemo, surgery and now radiation.  He and Eileen have been our best friends back to 1996 when we all lived in DeBary, FL.  They were frequent summer camping trip companions, but alas, they too sold their motorhome!  Ira and Lee who we vacationed with at Gulf Shores last year, lost their motorhome in the hurricane right after our trip, decided at age 80 not to replace it. 

We drove an hour to Deer Park to visit Tommy and went to lunch.  We left by 3:00 to avoid rush hour traffic but it still took 70 minutes to drive home.  

Marena invited us over to play Mexican Train one evening.  Her family has all returned back home so she was lonely. We are playing this Friday night too.

One fun thing we did July 3 was to attend the Red White and Blue Houston Symphony performance at the Mitchell Pavilion.  It is a free Performance of the Arts and there was a full house.  We were in the second row aisle seats, stage right.  The best part of that was the occasional roll of AC drifting down from the stage.  It was still 96 at 9:30 when we went home so that bit of occasional relief was most welcome.  The Sweet Adelines performed before the symphony started.

On the 4th I did some laundry, we watched the Astros win, grilled some burgers and then went to the fireworks.  They were being set off in 5 different parks and we chose Town Green and sat around the basin where the duck

boats are kept. A band was playing, families were eating food from vendors and there were bubbles galore from wands that must have been for sale somewhere. We had no trouble with traffic getting home. Ted cut up our watermelon and we settled in for the night.