Today has been a good day. I have had a cold the past week or so, but seem to be getting over it. My wife and I went to church. I really enjoyed the service. The youth from our Parish put on the worship service. A young man played the guitar and we sang "My God is an Awesome God" and three familiar hymns. The youth put on a puppet show entitled a "Cowboy Christmas." It was quite enjoyable and had a good message. After the service we went to lunch with two good friends, Elmer and Edna. A lot of the conversation was about blogging, my latest interest. Elmer is the one who helped me get started. He is extremely computer literate and helps me with all my questions and problems with cyberspace. We are trying to figure out a way to use the weblog concept with the Parish Website which Elmer and I handle. Neither of our wives seemed too enthusiastic about the weblogs which is surprising since almost every idea we have is a good one.
Early in the afternoon my friend, Fernando, called and wanted to go out for coffee. We went to a local coffee shop and discussed many important topics. Fernando and I have been friends for over thirty years. We met in the mid-70's at square dance lessons. We were both recently divorced. I enjoy visiting with him as he is an excellent conversationalist - well-versed in many areas and has great listening skills. We both try to practice the Navajo way (we read about this in the Tony Hillerman novels) of not interrupting and being sure the other person is done expressing his idea before speaking.
When I arrived home, I discovered that my wife was out having coffee with her good friend, Nicolette. They have been friends since high school. Nicolette is an extremely intelligent, well-read person and also an excellent conversationalist - traits that she and my wife have in common.
I worked on the prayer requests for our church. I e-mail them to all members who have computers, but mail them to fifteen members who don't have e-mail. I enjoy doing this as I think it is important and the members appreciate receiving the prayer requests. Later we took them to the mailbox and took our Schnauzer, Gromit, for a ride. We stopped at the River Walk and let him out for a while. He is quite spoiled.
I am excited because my son and his girlfriend are coming tomorrow. They live in the New York City area and aren't able to come very often. We have been out there twice this year.
It's almost time for the Bears game to start, so I guess I'll quit for today.
More tomorrow.