Sunday, Feb 12th

A bit overcast today, the forecast was for a chance of rain.  Don't get too excited as rain here is not as you would generally understand it.  Usually it does not produce any measurable precipitation at the valley floor, but some may occur at higher elevations, like the mountain tops around here that are over 5,000 ft.  Even when we do get rain, often it evaporates before reaching the ground.
  I went to the church service this morning and it was very well attended.  It was nice to see and there were some people who could sing and do justice to the selections this morning.  Don delivered a thought provoking sermon and prayers for those with health challenges.  After when I arrived back home there was some nice monkey bread and coffee for breakfast.  Marg took a piece over to the neighbour, she has sort of taken under her wing.  Later on lunch today was ..... wait, I never got lunch today, probably something to do with those buns between 10:30-11:00. 
  I had mentioned to one person at church this morning that our plans were to leave early this year, pretty much the end of the month and within a couple of hours, the whole place seemed aware of it.  Seems to work better than the notices they hand out on events here. Her fiend stopped in to tell her the baby shower would be OK for Feb 28th.  This was a bit of a surprise as they originally thought mid- March, but the new parents and grandparents were excited at the prospect of the shower.  Marg's shower parties and cocktail receptions are legendary, so I suspect they made changes to be available earlier.  It will delay our return home a couple of days, but worth it.
  Marg went out to pick up a few things as she decided to make taco salads for supper tonight.  She invited Kenny & Doris to supper providing they liked taco salads and it appears they liked them just fine.  I worked on posting a bunch of old pictures from here to a memory stick.  I think I have 3 years about done now and have probably copied 4 or 500 pictures to it.  That probably is about 2/3rds of what I have, but I never copied many scenery pics, nor any of the personal [family] ones.  The next two will be more challenging as there are many more pictures to choose from.  Now we just have to work out the DVD player, they are still using ours at the hall.
  We made a stop at happy hour and it was a good sized group today.  Must have been something in the air: both happy and church were well attended.  Noticeably absent were two of the guys from last night and the third was drinking vegetable juice.  I was the only one having a beer, so it seems I still have what it takes.  LOL
  Supper was good, bot the food and the company were just right.  Marg had a great assortment or variety of things to fill the taco shell and then we had some of the flapper pie from last night.  It was still good and I don't believe either of them had ever had it before.  It also seemed to go over well, so we were a little full going into the ice cream social.  They had a pretty good crowd as well, but we both settled for a dish of ice cream as the splits seemed to be too much tonight.