Here I am posting almost a week later and supposed to remember what I did since Jim went to Lake Placid on Tuesday. I really think I need to reevaluate how I do my journal. It would only take me a few minutes each day to do this.
Jim had fun at their luncheon on Tuesday, there were 4 of them and 3 of the guys I think live here, I know 2 live here and maybe the other one just vacations here but I am surprised how many people live here year round, I know that makes me naïve but why?
It is funny, yesterday we were talking about me going on an airboat ride. Jim is being real encouraging because he would rather have his fingernails pulled out than go on an airboat ride. He was talking about the snakes falling out of the trees on me and fun stuff like that. What do you think, encouraging? It did make me laugh. For me I have horrors like, what if the motor stalls or the driver has a heart attack. I have no sense of direction. I don't know. Today we are going down by alligator alley and that is where we see the airboat places. I may have him pull in to one so I can inquire. Sounds good to me.
Can you stand it, yesterday I got up at my usual time about 5am and took the dogs out, I could see my breath. It sure makes good sleeping weather but really, I came here to get away from that kind of weather. That doesn't happen often.
I am typing without my glasses, they are somewhere but for the love of mike I don't know where and I don't want to wake Jim up. He likes to sleep in but in all honesty, my sacrum and only take so many hours on my back, or walking, or sitting or especially standing. Church about kills me, some of the hymns are 4 plus verses and go on forever. Whine, whine, whine.
Sunday we sure had a fun day, we started off with church, it was The First Presbyterian Church, now I know we would join that church if we moved here, we will never move here or stay more that 2 months if I can help it. They had the best female preacher. Pastor June Barrow. "May I Re-Introduce You" was here theme. She started off with the sweetest story about her parents and since they only live 2 hours North of here in St Petersburg she can see them often and how she is writing their memoirs. What a fun thing to do, she talked about all the things she is finding out about her parents that she didn't know. It was so interesting and she wove it in to the message. I love the message in Colossians. Out of the Lutheran Study Bible. "Because Christians of all ages have already been united with Christ through baptism, we therefore let Christ's love, peace and forgiveness guide our lives and our relationships with other Christians, with members of our family and with people who are not Christian." Anyway that is part of the message.
She also shared with us a story about a priest in Auschwitz concentration camp. It about tore out your heart. It's a true story about how a an SS officer decided to kill 10 men because one prisoner escaped. As he called the 10th man out, the man fell to his knees weeping and he cried, "my wife, my children, I will never see them again." A fellow prisoner, a priest offered to take his place and the SS officer allowed it and the 10 were taken off to a starvation room where they were given no food and water and over a two week period and everyone had died except the priest and the SS officer felt it was taking too long so they put the priest to death by lethal injection. Now that was a powerful story, the priest's name was Maximilian Kolbe, he died on August 14th 1941 and the Polish prisoner's name was Franciszek Gajwoniczek. He lived to be 92 and had a rock with the priest's name printed on it so he would see it every day and never forget what one man did for him. I looked up the story, needless to say - as Christians, we can make a powerful difference. To serve.
Back to Sunday: In the afternoon we went to Broadway Palms Dinner Theater and we saw "Funny Girl". I want you to know the lead star really carried the show. She did an amazing job. What a voice, it was probably the best show to date and we have seen some really wonderful shows.
We have one show to go, Dirty Dancing on our last night here.
We took a drive Saturday but for the life of me I can't remember to where. We do that a lot. I know we went Wednesday we went to Alligator Alley so Jim could fish and Thursday he went fishing with Frank to a new spot on the Ocean which we went to on Friday.
Wednesday night we went to The Barbara Mann Theater to see Broadway Big Bands, the two singers were ever so fantastic and the band was great and I loved the little quips the leader of the band shared with us. Loved it. Jim sneaked out during intermission and bought me a necklace and earrings, they match the beautiful enamel ring he bought me perfectly. What a surprise. I love it.
Brings us to today and we will have to walk the circle. I use the sticks and it helps. All the kids are back in the US of A. Just nice to have them all back from vacation.
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