TEN DAY UPDATE

I can't believe that I have let 10 days go by without publishing. Last Wednesday I went to my PA for a blood pressure checkup. We are trying to find a new BP med that has less side effects. She gave me a new formula that I will start 4/1. My pressure was down and looks good. She wants me to take it in both arms after she got a 20 point less reading in the right than the left. Since then I am getting various readings but the last check had both arms exactly the same. So that shoots her theory that I had a blockage in one arm. I also had an appointment with my lawyer to get her to finish the new will I had asked for several months ago. She got the info she needed.

We had a lot of fun at SS last Sunday. Reading Joshua 4-6 we sang Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho every time another person came in the room and had a lot of fun with repeating "the walls came tumbling down" in our men's bass voices. We had a record attendance of 15. We got the Israelites across the Jordan river on dry ground in the flooding season with Jericho destroyed but saving Rahab and her family. Jewish tradition holds that Rahab was one of the most beautiful women in their history.

On the way to church I was driving faster than normal and hit a cat crossing the road. It knocked the lower right fog light loose and it was hanging by the wire when I got to church. I replaced it but it kept falling out, so I duct taped it. Tuesday when we got back to Granbury I took it to Nancy's mechanic. He called for the price of the replacement unit. $234 for the unit plus labor to install. I left it duct-taped. There were only four used units in the US and none near by.

Monday night we were very privileged to have dinner with Dr. Sylvia Grider before her talk at Hardin Simmons University in an invited lecture. Dr. Tiffany Fink had two of her students, a hometown Pampa friend of Sylvia's, Lawrence Clayton's two daughters and a two-year-old granddaughter to fill the table. One of the students sitting next to me had a six year career in the AF working on the bomb squad, defusing and blowing up bombs working with the Navy Seals, Special Forces and AF special teams in Iraq and Afghanistan. She demostrated using the axe for trimming logs when Sylvia gave her show and tell talk about early pioneers in Texas. Sylvia had a sold out crowd and they kept bringing chairs into the room until it was filled. The next morning Sylvia came by Halsell Hill for breakfast. Nancy made Nebraska special Eggs ala Goldenrod, which is the state flower of Nebraska. Lydia joined us for breakfast and we all enjoyed a good meal and visit with Sylvia. I went on to Kiwanis and stayed for a board meeting. We then drove to Granbury and met with the mechanic.

Today we planted flowers and vegies in Nancy's garden. Planted 80 onion plants, sweet peas on trellises, gardenias and morning glories around in the yard. Totally wore me out so I napped for 3 hours this afternoon. I am always behind. Don't know when I will find time to write my LW column. I posted the column printed last week to my Creation blog. I got one reply encouraging me from the column. I printed a copy for Sylvia who is an anthropologist evolutionist and we always have great discussions. I am reading a book Nancy gave me entitled: in six days; why 50 scientists choose to believe in creation. It is 50 essays by scientists with distinguished careers who tell why they can support the concept of creation in six days from every discipline.

We will return to Cross Plains for Maundy Thursday services at the Methodist Church and then go to the Hootenanny at the Texas Folklore Society in Abilene. We will make the Friday sessions and dinner but leave Saturday morning to go to San Antonio to celebrate Easter with Kathy and her family.