I plan to update more often, but feel compressed by other obligations. I got behind on publishing the Flame and worked until almost 11 p.m. Friday night and felt that I did a poor job. Saturday I thought of other things I should have added to the news of the church. We came home yesterday and I printed copies of the Flame for those who don't have internet. Today we had our new pastor, Kevin Morton, preach and I served as worship leader. Nancy made beans for the Fellowship dinner to honor the new pastor and his wife, Lee Anne, who joined the church today. She also attended my SS class.
We have had interesting deer interactions. A couple of days ago we were driving down the highway in Eastland County when a doe and fawn were in the road ahead of us. The doe was in the road and the fawn on the East side. I slowed and the doe ran back but the fawn decided to cross the road. The doe followed and vaulted over the fence, but the fawn had to find a hole that he struggled through. And then here at home Jeff Ramey planted two new roses on either side of my walk. A pair of young bucks with little mossy horns came to eat corn under the feeder and one came up into the yard and started eating the leaves off the rose bush. Because I was watering them, the grass was green and I first thought he was just grazing the grass but then I watched him eat leaves from the rose bush. I opened the door and scared him off, but now there are virtually no leaves on either of the new bushes.
I let the cottonwoods go without water until they lost all their leaves. I normally don't irrigate but I gave in and now run a little sprinkler water on the trees and the leave are coming back. I will have to keep watering to keep them alive. Last Tuesday we went to a meeting a Judy Luter's. She invited us to a special presentation at the Callahan County Historical Commission on the WWII places in Texas. I was familiar with some of them having been in the Army Air Corps where I took basic training at Wichita Falls after starting in San Antonio at one of their air bases. Later I came back to SA to be assigned to a base in Utah where I was separated because I had qualified for aviation cadet and wasn't sent to training. A lot of veterans came to bases in Texas as well as a lot of prisoners-of-war and Japanese and German internees. I hadn't realized that Germans were interned along with Japanese.
We drove to her house into a rain storm. It was raining with pea sized hail as we got there. We got a little wet even though we drove up close to the house. It rained and hailed for at least three hours while we were there. We drove back 5 miles north to my house and we had had almost no rain. Cottonwood got 2 inches and I got 0.3". It helped my grass a little but I am having to water my roses and new crepe myrtles.
Nancy volunteered to help paint the scenery for the Library play MURDER AT THE BARBARIAN FESTIVAL that is scheduled for September 17. I play the part of the mad scientist. Nancy is working on large background scenes and of course I have to help with that So we will be busy the next many weeks.
I had gotten off Facebook but our new preacher plans to use it and Twitter for communicating with the church so I got back on today. I still have trouble navigating the site. I would rather use blogs but realize I need to post often.
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