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.