FULL DAY

We have had a full week with normal activities including Sunday School and praying for our friend Teresa who was thrown from her horse and suffer extreme damage to her spine and rib cage that punctured her lungs. She has been operated on and is doing better but facing months of rehabilitation. Her prognosis is that she will have full recovery.

Today was full. We got up at 6 dressed, I drank a glass of orange juice, we read our devotionals and left at 7:15 to make my 8:15 doctor's appoinment because my bursitis was really hurting my right leg for the last couple of days. She gave me a steroid shot in the hip bursitis and sent a prescription to Walgreens and ordered X-rays of my hip and spine. I then made my 9:15 appoinment with my dermatologist who for the first time since I have been in his office did not spray me with liquid nitrogen. That gave me time to go back for four X-rays. I was out by 10 and Nancy drove us to Walgreens. They said they hadn't gotten the prescription. We stopped for breakfast at Subway and went back to Walgreens. Still no prescription so we asked them to send it on to Walgreens in Granbury and headed for the house.

I called Arlene on my cell phone to tell her I would be a few minutes late for the Centennial Play where I had a part. I got home and quickly changed into the new Western suit and vest that I bought on Monday when we went to Abilene for my Dental appointment. We ate at Olive Garden and bought the suit at Farm and Ranch Western Wear. They couldn't hem the pants so Nancy had to use her sewing skills to get the suit ready for the full dress rehearsal Tuesday night. I presided at Kiwanis Tuesday noon.

Back to today I got to the rehearsal at 12:08 and wasn't too late to run through our skit. Then at 1 the program started with the School Band playing three tunes. Then the mayor read his proclamation of the Centennial Year followed by our skit. We had about 20 people participate in a reenactment of the selling of the lots to start construction in Cross Plains on January 12, 1911. My role was one of the Directors of the Township Company formed by the railroad who owned the property and had built roads and a water system. Our local auctioneer acted as the land auctioneer with an assortment of costumed citizens doing the bidding. Then at a Freeze Frame I summarized the process of the bidding and what businesses came from the start. After the unfreeze I completed the program encouraging the citizens of Cross Plains to support the effort to make the town more than a small town but a center of commerce.

The program then had a performance by the Centennial Singers to complete the program. It was now 2. Nancy drove us to Granbury where we had the second meal of the day at the new Hoffbrau House in Granbury. She had a sirloin and I had a small ribeye. Very good and not too expensive.

I called Walgreens when we sat down to eat at 4. They assured me the prescription was being filled. At 5 I got to the store. The prescription was not ready. While waiting I used their photo service to print a couple of photos that Nancy made of me in a President Lincoln high hat that I borrowed from Rev. Ron White who wore it in the skit. I have posted one of the high hat photos. I had to wait until 6 to get the prescription filled. It was a mad house. The woman in front of me demanded that they give her all of her prescriptions so she could take them to another pharmacy and stormed out when they told her the prescriptions were sent in by the doctors and would have to come from them.

We got to Nancy's home in time to watch the memorial session on TV and are looking forward to a night of rest after one full day.