BEHIND

I thought that when I finished Kiwanis president and got someone else to do the Flame that I would have time to work on my creation science project, but I can't seem to find time. Does everyone feel the same way? My blog is not letting me access the dashboard so that I can go to my other blogs and that is frustrating. I found that I could use my desktop computer to post to my Creation blog today but when I tried to defrag this computer it told me I didn't need to and refused to defrag. Sometimes I think computers think too much.

I have invited Nancy to be an author on this blog. We will see how that works out.

FUMC 125TH CELEBRATION

The Cross Plains First United Methodist Church celebrated its 125th anniversary October 16. When we went to the Texas State Fair, it was the 125th year for it also. They asked us all to wear 1886 costumes. This was as close as Nancy and I could get to the costumes. My suit is a cowboy suit I bought for our wedding. I bought a string tie at a Western store at the Fair that Nancy tied for me. On the Methodist Facebook site there are a lot more photos of all of the congregation who came to the Fellowship dinner in their costumes.

CELEBRATING NANCY'S BIRTHDAY

Nancy asked me to post this photo of the bouquet from Tim's Floral celebrating her birthday. We are looking forward to more celebrations with her children and grandchildren tonight.

STATE FAIR OF TEXAS

Nancy and I went to the State Fair yesterday. We got off late and it took longer than we expected but we got there about noon. We started at the livestock exhibits. I intended to look for examples of computers being used at the Fair, but also wanted to see what the farmers and ranchers were exhibiting. We saw the cattle and boer goats. I asked where the milk goats were because I raised them as a teenager. They said that they were here last week. Later we found the Angora goats being exhibited and I was surprised at the ranch from Boyd showing their multicolored Angoras. I asked how many colors they had. All of the colors of the rainbow was the answer. I told the young lady to read THE TIME IT NEVER RAINED especially the last chapters on how the Angoras saved the ranch.

It was a day of eating. By 2 p.m. we were starving. First we ate Southern Fried Chicken. Each of us had a large portion, Nancy the thigh and me the breast. It came with french fries, pickles and jalapenos. Then we had to have Nancy's favorite, funnel cake. Then I found me a chocolate ice cream cone (like frozen yogurt) and went in search of the number one pick of fried foods at the Fair. Hans Fried Kraut balls. They were good. I ate all of them but Nancy tried one. I am not big on fried food. I sure didn't want fried bubble-gum. They also had fried cheesecake, pb&j, #2 autumn pie, pineapple upside down cake (one couple said that was to die for), walking taco, buffalo chicken in a flapjack (rated 6th but the choice for the best tasting, why that isn't the best baffles me), 7th was El Bananarito and 8th was Deep Fried Texas Salsa.

We then went to the creative arts and looked at all the quilts as well as jillions of creative art work, listened to the Marine Corps Drum and Bugle concert at 4, went thru part of the automotive displays, visited the Texas Hall of State, watched the parade at 7:15 and left during the light show and fireworks about 8:30 and got home at 10:30 and to bed by 11. The weather was perfect for the day. It was Senior's day and we got in free and rode the tram free. There were jillions of old people with a lot of powered scooters, wheel chairs and walkers. The Marine Corps concert was full of veterans, many older than me. It was a perfect day for the Fair, and we both were satisfied with our ability to walk that much and enjoy everything.

A DAY FOR PRAISE

Today we went to church to thank God for his blessings in the form of rain. It started raining here yesterday at 4 in the afternoon and came some good showers. My electronic rain gauge quit on me and I never could get out in the rain to look at my rain gauges. It quit raining at 9 as we left for church. This morning the one at the garage was leaning and was full. When we got back from church I looked and all three gauges are 5" gauges and were all running over, so over 6 inches is a good guess. Others at church reported 6 inches or more. I even had a little water running down the creek this morning. It had stopped when we got back but I am hoping it will keep running out of the hills. However the ground was so dry it absorbed most of the rain. But this is a great answer to our fervent prayers for the last several months.

I was devastated today to read that one of Lou's students at Levelland who came to her funeral died of cancer September 17. He had been in chemo since Lou's death. I thought he had beat it, but he had throat cancer and it kept coming back.

Winding Down

Like I said in the last post we have been too busy to post to the blog. As we enter October we are looking forward to winding down. September was really busy. I was in the Library play MURDER AT THE BARBARIAN FESTIVAL, where they cast me as Doc Rodentburger who is experimenting with guinea pigs to produce more meat for my McRonald's franchise I am going to open in Crossed Plains. The murder victim is found with one of the napkins from my booth at the fair and I had made a threat against him so I was a logical murder suspect, as were all the other cast members. Four of the Library Directors had fun writing the script. Nancy enjoyed painting the scenery for the play, but we were tied up for months. That was Saturday Sept. 17. I was serving my last term as President of Kiwanis and officers change in October. We moved the last meeting Sept. 27 from noon to 6:30 at my house with Eva Fleming catering a BBQ supper. We had 20 people attend and Nancy did a great job of decorating tables. Bob Pipes brought 16 folding chairs to seat everyone.

Saturday Sept. 24 was the wind-up of the Cross Plains Centennial. We had a Kiwanis float, a FUMC float and the Library float had Nancy's scenery for the back drop. So we decided to watch the parade and were fortunate to find Sue who had brought Ike from the nursing home to watch. He had had a pharmacy in CP for over 50 years before he retired so he had a place there. We were sitting across the street from his old pharmacy. I forgot to bring my camera and video so don't have anything to post.

I also could have worn my American Legion vest and cap and participated in their flag raising ceremony. Instead we went to Lawrence Farm and Ranch Supply looking for parts for Nancy's cabinet construction project. We then came back to town where they were celebrating the opening of the new Clinic, had hamburgers prepared by Amber Thomas for the Senior Citizens Center, visited with friends, bought one of the Cross Plains history books that I had submitted info on the Halsell family with photos. We then went to the church parking lot where we gave Roy Hunter all of Nancy's old fishing gear to help develop a "fishing for men mission project".

Then that night at the Chamber of Commerce dinner, I again acted in the Centennial Players reconstruction of the 1911 auction of town site lots. I played the part of one of the Township committee members, H. J. Cureton, who was a real person. I wrapped up the play with my little speech about making CP the most prosperous town on the Central Texas RR.

Getting back home they delivered the scenery to the Halsell House where Nancy plans to dismantle it and take it to Granbury to decorate her garage.

To spend more time working on my project on showing how God created matter from light I asked to be replaced as the Flame editor, and now that I am not Kiwanis president I plan to get back to work on the research.

And maybe I will be able to post more often.