Tuesday, October 31, 2023

 Happy Halloween! It is going to be a cold, cold night for the little Trick or Treaters this evening. I guess “the Monkey will ride” again this year though. Or maybe I’ll just sit out there on the John Deere and wait for them to come along. I’m not actually sure I know where I put the “monkey mask” that I have been using for the past decade. But, I’ll have on my warm wear stuff for sure. I think it is supposed to be around  30 degrees at at Trick or Treating hour. My guess is that there will be a lot of “Taylor Swifties” running around out there tonight. She is all the rage  theses days. I saw that she just made “Billionaire” status with her music and concerts. And me —- don’t know that I have ever heard of a song she sings. 

Yesterday Ms. Kate and I made a couple of apple pies because Julie, Jim, and their friend Karyn were coming over. I must say that the pies were absolutely delicious. Kate had been wanting to make some earlier but her health had kept her from it. So I went to Schnucks yesterday morning to get some Golden Delicious apples. Kate wanted a couple of bags of them. Well, they didn’t have any bags of them and they were priced at $2.00 a pound for them. That amounted to approximately $1.00 an apple. So, I went to the IGA and found 3lb bags for less than $5.00. I brought them home and we got to work on them. We have one pie left and I’ll be starting on that one today. 

31st of October! I have two months left in the job or only nine Sundays left. That’s not long is it? I have to admit that I’m nervous for the parish because we have not received except one profile of an interested person in becoming the pastor. But I can’t let that be my concern. As my mentor and friend, Art Christmas tells me, It’s God’s parish; God will handle it as it needs to be handled. I know our profile is out there. I reckon they will have an interim for awhile. 

Today we are doing some laundry; actually just changing and washing the bed clothes. Sure glad we are in the days of indoor drying and not like it was when Kate and I were kids and our mothers had to hang the wash outside. Although, there is a lady that lives just across the block that always hangs her was outside. I don’t know why; maybe she just like that fresh air smell on the clothes. 

So, have a great Halloween, don’t eat too much candy, and then let all start thinking about Thanksgiving and counting our blessings. Peace. 

Thursday, October 26, 2023

 Thursday, just past noon: I’m sitting here with a face, mouth, gum, and tongue all numb on the right side. I just came home from a dental filling.  For what ever reason, it always seems to take extra novocaine to prep me for dental work. Then it takes an extra hour for my face to return to normal again. So, I’m sitting here hungry and thirsty but I don’t dare try to eat or drink just yet because I will either spill on myself, or bite my tongue or jaw or something. So, I guess I will maybe try to drink something from my left side and hope it goes well. 

I spent the afternoon yesterday at the churches as I had told you I would be doing. I got the bulletins run and placed for this Sunday and I had time to run the bulletins for next week. As luck would have it, today I got a text from the choir director asking if we can move the date of the quartets song to a different Sunday. They were supposed to sing next week and I have that in the bulletin, —- but, —- what ever. Of course we can move it. Are you kidding? I’m just thrilled that we have a quartet that wants to do a number. Now, I wonder if I can convince them to sing at both churches???? I know the folks at St. Paul’s would enjoy them singing and I love the song they are going to do: “Amazing Grace, My Chains Are Gone”. Well the worst they can say is “no”. 

I need to get on the JD and mulch leaves again today. They are really coming down now. My Tulip Polar in the front yard, the one we call “Harley” is almost totally devoid of leaves now. The two in the back are losing their leaves fast too. Yesterday, Kari, (our cleaning lady) and did get the potted plants brought in to the sun porch. It’s supposed to drop temperatures really quick this weekend. Halloween is going to be miserable for the local kids as the high for the day is supposed to be 48 and we may be having rain. Speaking of which, I have yet to buy any candy for Halloween. I better do that in the next couple of days. 

That’s it for today. I’m going to get a cup of coffee and see if I can “side-drink it”. Peace. 

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

 Wednesday again — already. It’s a warm morning @ 62 degrees and little to no wind. I watching more and more leaves fall from the trees. Across the street, Dan’s Maple trees are starting to turn. They will get to a nice red before they suddenly fall. All of that could happen within the week. Cold weather is coming in this weekend. I thought our cleaning lady was coming yesterday but I had my calendar wrong and she came today. She and I will get the porch potted plants in today because next Tuesday they are predicting first frost and first freeze. When the temperature dumps, it dumps quick. At least there is no prognosis of snow in the forecast. However, the north third of the country cannot say the same. Friends of ours are already posting snow pictures on Facebook. It’s messing up their golf games. LOLOL. 

Being Wednesday, that means I have to go to the church to run my bulletins for the week and then stay for choir practice. I hope this week we have a better turn out for choir. We only had enough for a quartet last week and I was the lone male singer which is never good. I rely on those young guys to cover up my mistakes. “There was a day” when I could hold my own in choir and even did a few solos and duets. These days though the voice is weak and I have a difficult remember the note “sound”. And then I get so focus on the tone of the note that I sing the wrong words. I’m an old mess and need a keeper I think. LOL. But I enjoy singing, whether anyone else enjoys my singing can be debatable. 

Ms. Kate and I decided to go to Chipotle for dinner last night. They have a new place on the east side of town and we thought we would give it a try. Actually Kate wanted to try it. We have another one also on the east side of town but its location is terrible. One can hardly get in and out of their parking lot because it is on the corner of a very busy intersection, and when you do manage to get in the parking lot, there is hardly any parking. I wouldn’t be surprised to see that location close now that the new place is open. Any way, we went and I got us a couple of Carne Asada bowls to take home. It was “okay”. What surprised me though was that the young kid running the cash register actually did not know how to handle a cash transaction and had to ask someone to help him. I guess they are so used to people paying with their credit or debit card. I mentioned this to Julie and Lisa last night and they said that wasn’t unusual. Lisa and her family just went to Kings Dominion Theme park last weekend and she said the entire park was “cashless” and card only. Julie said that people are surprised that her bookstore still takes cash because the rest of the university only uses cards. Amazing. What are we going to do when the electric grid goes down and people can’e use their card? Do we just not buy anything?? Or what do we do when entire networks get hacked and accounts stolen?  Technology is great for a lot of things, but it can’t become the only solution. Artificial Intelligence use is becoming an actual worry to a lot of the nations leadership. The Jetson’s world is not going to be all we thought it would be in my opinion. 

Notes from the Sunporch —- we had four Bluebirds at once here yesterday in the backyard Buffet. Obviously they are migrating to somewhere. But it was a beautiful sight. 

That’s it for today. I need to go out and clear the leaves out of the patio plants so we can bring them in. Have a blessed week. Stay in touch with God. God certainly will stay in touch with you. Peace. 

Monday, October 23, 2023

 New day, new week, and it’s a beautiful day out side. 

It wouldn’t be normal if we didn’t start the week out with a morning round of doctor’s visits. I am glad too report though that these were very good visits. Today we had Kate’s six-month check-up from both her radiologist and her oncologist. Both gave her good reports and said that they will follow up. Back to the radiologist in six months and to the oncologist in a year. In the mean time she will have her mammogram of course, some time in January and an ultrasound next fall. But —- that doesn’t mean the calendar is clear of doctor’s visits any time soon.  We still have her annual Heart doctor’s appointment, her infectious disease consult for her diverticulitis, and her colonoscopy and endoscopy exams, and family doctor visit all before Christmas. Medicare and Tri-care must love us. It just leans credit to what I’ve heard for years; — you know you are getting old when the only numbers in your Rolodex are doctors. Although, I guess today’s Rolodex would be speed dial on your IPhone. 

Yesterday was another great day at church. I had the pleasure of doing another infant baptism. In fact this was most likely my last baptism. I only have ten more weeks on the job and there are no prospects out there that I know of. I’m really going to miss that. 

Tomorrow our cleaning lady comes and I am going to ask her to help me get the patio plants brought in for the winter. The night are getting cooler and we have had no threat of frost so far but I have babied these dang plants for two decades and I don’t want a sudden drop in temperature to catch me off guard and it maybe kill my plants. Somehow — those pots seem to get heavier every year. What’s up with that???

Well. I have writing to do and my computer doesn’t seem to want to do it for me. I guess I better head down to my basement office and get to work. 

It’s a brand new week with all kinds of opportunities to be kind to one another. Peace, my friends. 

Friday, October 20, 2023

 What a beautiful morning! It’s bright and sunny, about 60 degrees and a breeze of about 10 mph or so. Later today I am going to jump on the John Deere and square up the yards again. I have a lot of leave that are coming down and I down’s want to get behind on that chore. The female tulip poplar has maybe 15% of it’s leaves gone already. The male tree won’t start falling for probably another two weeks or so. His leaves are much bigger than the ones on the female. (I’m only guessing that they are male and female.) She leafs out first in the spring and drops first in the fall by maybe three weeks or so. And she is the one with all of the pods. 

We’ve gotten the majority of our “chores” done for the weeks so we can take it relatively easy for the weekend. Kate will be making Christmas cards, I’ll get the yard mowed and a little other yard work and then work on another sermon. Kate hates for me to work on writing sermons and stuff when I am supposed to be taking a day off, but I enjoy doing it. I suspect once I retire, I’ll end up actually doing some writing that may or may not lead to a book, but we will see what happens. 

Kate made french toast this morning for breakfast and of course it was just perfect. I bought some bananas yesterday when I went to the grocery so we each sliced up a banana to out on our french toast. 

So that’s it for today. I hope you have a great weekend. I hope where ever you might be is going to have perfect fall weather and you can get out and enjoy the beautiful changing of the colors on the trees and breathe in so crisp fresh air. Peace

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

 Wednesday, Wednesday, —- where do the days go? It looks like Fall out there and at 10:30 am it is only sixty degrees. I think it is supposed to get to about 71 and if it does, that will make for a beautiful afternoon. 

My job today it to make some parishioner calls and run my bulletins for Sunday, then stick around for choir practice this evening. It equals a busy day and a long day; but a satisfying day. 

Nothing else much is news around our house. Well, Kate’s surgeon did have a consult with the Infectious Disease folks concerning the lesion/abscess on her colon; and they want her to come in for a consultation. That won’t be until mid-November though. Nothing like dragging all of this out. The good news is that she is feeling so much better though. Maybe this will all just pass. That’s what happened when I had Diverticulitis, but then I was never diagnosed with an abscess. But, they have now put her on Omeprozole pills which is what I was prescribed and has kept me in check for two decades. Who knows, maybe that is the answer. It would be wonderful if the remedy was that simple. And that’s more information than you ever wanted about my wife’s internal organs; LOLOLOL. 

I’m looking forward to the weekend. Julie and the pups are coming over on Saturday and spending the night. I love that they live within an hour and a half drive from us. We don’t make it over there very often because we never know when or what that girl has on her plate for the day. She is always working it seems. She does five and a half days at work and is doing something that keeps her busy. I’m just glad that she inserts time to come here. It’s great to have one of the girls within reach. With Heather in California and Lisa in North Carolina —- it’s a long way for a drop-in. 

So that’s it; I need to make a couple of phone calls and check on my home bound folks. Have a great day. Peace. 


Monday, October 16, 2023

 Monday morning and October is officially one half over. It’s a chilly 48 degrees and thee sun has yet to be seen even though it is daylight. I think the forecaster said that these clouds may break up this afternoon for awhile. 

How was your weekend? We had a good one around here. This is the first weekend that Kate has felt well enough to to get out of the house go do some things. It was also her first theme back at church in some time. Everyone was happy to see her and she was really happy to be back. Being with our parishioners is the main thing that we will miss after I retire. For the past almost 20 years we have built a lifetime bond with them. Protocol dictates though that we not involve ourselves in those two churches for a lengthy period of time after we retire. It tends to interfere with the relationship that a new pastor is trying to build with the congregations. I understand the reasoning, but it isn’t easy. I wouldn’t want to interfere at all with their progress “post-me”. And —- they need to be open to new leadership and maybe even new ways of doing things.  However, many of these people have become very personal friends of ours. That will not change. 

Yesterday was a great day at my St. Paul’s church because we had an infant baptism. The church was pretty full. This event was actually a generational event. I knew the great-grandparents of the infant and even did their funerals. I confirmed the child’s father and his brothers, I married all three of the boys and now am baptizing their babies. Long pastorates will give you those opportunities occasionally and I have had several of them between the two churches. God blesses me every day with things like this. 

I’m looking over our calendar for this week and it is void of doctor visits this week with the exception of a dental cleaning for me tomorrow afternoon. What will we do for a social life???????

With that, I’m done for this morning. Have a blessed week. Stay in touch with God; pray for peace in this world. 

Thursday, October 12, 2023

 Happy Thursday afternoon. Another busy day for us today but today’s adventure had nothing to o with going to a doctor. It has been a long time since I have been able to say that. 

Last evening I had choir practice at the church after I had spent the afternoon running the bulletins for Sunday. After choir practice, I asked one of my smart Tekky guys about something to do with my computer and printer. Well, unfortunately, when I left the church, I forgot to take the flash drive out of the computer and bring it home with me. My “church world” lives on that flash drive, all my services, all my sermons and programs I’m currently working on. That meant I had to go back up to the church this morning  and retrieve my flash drive so I can continue my work. So, I proposed to Ms. Kate that we get ourselves ready, go to breakfast, then up to the church and pick up my flash drive. Then, I needed to get a haircut and she wanted to go to the Dollar Tree store to look for some flowers and decorations for the cemeteries,.

So, we went to Sunrise Cafe for a great breakfast and then up to the church. I got to the barbershop and it was packed. I guess it is “Fall Break” for the school kids and every kid needed a haircut. Okay, it wasn’t that bad but, —- there was a long wait. There are five barbers in the shop I go to and I have a particular barber named Mary that I like to cut my hair. I signed in and it looked like there was only one call for Mary. But, I was wrong. There were three guys waiting on Mary, so it took a while. When I get my hair cut, I like to just sit there and let the barber cut my hair without a lot of conversation. Other guys seem to think they need to have a relationship between them and their barber and want to jabber on forever. All three of these guys were takers. In they meantime, Kate is sitting out in the car waiting. I finally called her and told her that if she wants to come in — there is a bathroom that she could use if she needs to. She did come in about the time Mary called my name. But, I got a nice haircut and will be good for another four weeks or so. We never made it to Dollar Tree. I guess we will do that maybe tomorrow. 

The great thing about all of this is that Kate felt well enough to do all of it. She is doing so very much better. Her surgeon called her today and said that her CT scan show that she still has two either abscesses or lesions on her colon, so she isn’t healed. But he is doing a referral for her to Infectious disease people to see if they think it is a problem and if they have something they can do to treat it without going back on the antibiotic pills that have been causing her all of this trouble. So, it is still a wait and see, but they are not seeing anything that requires surgery at this point. So, we will relax about it until told not to relax about it, and we will continue to give all praise to God for the care she has been given. 

That’s my report for today. Have yourself a blessed day. Peace. 

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

 Good morning on a crisp 57 degrees morning. The sun is shining and it is just a beautiful autumn day. 

It’s going to be another busy day. First thing this morning Kari will be arriving in a few minutes to clean the pace up. She does such an excellent job. One of the smarter things we have done is to have a house cleaner come in a couple of times a month. She does the vacuuming and dusting, cleans the bathrooms, and cleans mirrors as they need it. Basically she does all of the things that require a lot of stretching and reaching and bending that Kate and I just don’t seem to be able to do anymore. And, she’s a great person. 

We’ve spent the last two days doing doctor’s appointments. We don’t have the results back as of yet so we’re waiting patiently or maybe not so patiently on those. Kate read the results on her “My Chart” page but unless you speak “doctoreze” who knows what they are telling us. One would think they could have put in a simple statement like; “it’s better than it was” or something like that. But no, they put all of these medical terms in the report so you still have to guess what is being said. 

I finished my October services and sermons last night. Wow, —- it’s beginning to be real. This morning’s email contained the official announcement from the Evangelical Association asking for resumes for a new pastor for my churches. I have to admit, it gave me a twinge of sadness. I love being at the parish but it is time to cut the cord and bring in a young person to do God’s work in the parish. I just pray that whoever comes in will love those folks as much as I do. I think God and I have an agreement that it is time for me to step down. 

Today I have to go to the parish and run the bulletins for this coming Sunday. I’m going to have to run extras because we are having an infant baptism this Sunday at St. Pau’s and the mom told me that she expects a large crowd. I love a full church. Next Sunday, the 22nd, I get to do another baptism. It’s my lucky month. Everyone knows that infant baptisms are my favorite part of the job. I’ll miss doing that.. 

I reckon that is about it for today. I hope your week is fully blessed. Peace. 


Monday, October 9, 2023

 It’s October 9th, Columbus Day, — and I’m wondering if anyone cares. It is a Federal Holiday which means that banks and post offices and government offices are closed; —- however, the rest of the world moves on. It’s also known as Indigenous People’s Day thanks to President Joe Biden. Anything for a vote. I do remember my elementary school days where we would participate in little skits and have an assembly to honor Christopher Columbus based on a lot of errant history. But, I’m not going to start a political argument. I’ll just ignore the “holiday” and carry on. 

I think I told you that my son-in-law John had had a mild stroke last week. He is now home from the hospital and isn’t too much worse for the event. He still has some peripheral vision problems and must be cleared by the ophthalmologist before he can drive. I can see where it would be a problem because it is his left eye and that is the side that cars and people pass you on when you are driving. Hopefully this will clear up for him. But he is extremely lucky if that is the worst that he comes out with for all of this. Don’t drop him from your prayers just yet. 

We’re getting our selves dressed and ready to take Ms. Kate for her consult with her surgeon. I think this is a “follow-up” from her hospitalization she had here but he is going to have to also look over the records from her hospitalization in Texas. I just hope he doesn’t try to suggest that she take any more antibiotics. I suspect he will ask for to go take another CT scan, but maybe they will have gotten her results from the one in Texas by now. She didn’t go to church again yesterday because of the nausea tat comes from taking the antibiotics. She has two more days of them and I just hope that Dr. Roberts will say she can just stop them, period. The lady is worn out from being sick and nauseous every day. We have to make her “gooder”. 

I think I will stop and buy a Powerball lottery ticket while we are out and about. I stand as good of a chance of winning that $1.5 billion dollars as anyone else. Even after taxes, there would still be enough to fill up both gas tanks and go grocery shopping. My mind can’t even comprehend what I would do with that kind of money. 

Time to get in the car. I hope you have a blessed week. Peace.  

Friday, October 6, 2023

 Friday, Oct. 6th —- which means that next Friday is Friday the 13th!!!

It’s been another one of those days for our family. We got notified by middle daughter Heather that her hubby, John, had a mild stroke last night. Kate and I were just vacationing with them a week ago. What in the world. What is amazing is those two are the most health conscientious people in the family. They eat well and they exercise well. He rides 100 mile bicycle trips in the Idaho mountains and Grand Tetons. One never knows what life is going to bring. The really good news is that they caught it early in the process and got treatment for him to start dissolving the clot. I just heard from her a few minutes ago and they had him in for a MRI. She said he is doing well so far and his most notable complaint was some messed up vision in his left eye. So, my friends, please add John to your list of prayers. 

Today started with Kate going to the beauty shop to have her hair trimmed and fixed. She was going to cancel they appointment but I talked her out of that. I felt that as bad as she has felt, she needed something to make her feel a little better. From there, we went to the churches and got things ready for Sunday services. Then came back to Evansville, went to Walgreens to pick up medicine for Kate and then to the bank to deposit some checks. Now we are home and have taken a snippet of a nap. 

Yesterday I wrote my sermon for Oct 22nd and got the bulletin prepared for Oct 29th. This month has just begun and I’m already prepping for the next month. I will say it again, —— it will be really strange to not have this stuff to do come January. I’m still not sure how I will fill my time. But I don’t intend to just sit on my butt and do nothing. 

The West Side Fall Festival is going on and Kate and I will miss it once again. It all ends as of tomorrow night. Tonight there will be thousands and thousands of people down there just walking around and finding their favorite Fall Festival food. There are people that literally take a weeks vacation during this annual event and have every meal at the festival. This the second largest street festival in the country, second only to Mardi Gras. They expect over 200,000 people to attend this week. There was a day that it was so much fun to be there in the mix. But I was a teenager in those days. I sole contribution is to but $20.00 worth of “Half-pot” tickets. Last night the half-pot reached over $1,000,000.00. I’d be glad to share that with them. LOL

That’s it for this Friday. Have a blessed weekend. uncle up, it’s gong to be. Chilly weekend. Peace. 

Thursday, October 5, 2023

 Happy Thursday to you. I’m hearing rain drops the beginning of the rain-drops hitting the roof of the sunporch. The forecast calls for rain most of the day until maybe around 1600 today. We can certainly use some rain to settle the dust. I went out an mulched the leaves again yesterday and there was a cloud of dust filling the air. So this will be nice. The rain is slow enough at the moment that it is neat to watch the large drops as they land in the birdbath and make a splash. I’m easily amused. I cleaned the birdbaths out again yesterday. There was more leaves than water in them. The leaves lay in there and get gnarly. But, the birds still drink the water and take baths in it. 

I have one cardinal that is being a bossy bird this morning. He doesn’t want to share a feeder or a birdbath.  If other birds come near, he runs them off. But I have all-of the feeders full so no one is doing without. But he doesn’t have to start the morning off by being rude. I may have to have a talk with him about manners. LOL. 

Yesterday was another doctor appointment day for Kate. It seems that we have one every other day. I know she is so tired of it and really tired of taking all of the antibiotics because they keep her nauseous. She has an appointment with her surgeon on Monday or Tuesday, I’m not sure which. It’s hard to keep up without my calendar in front of me. 

Besides doctor visit yesterday, it was also laundry day. We had all of our post vacation laundry to get done. It always takes Kate days to get everything put away when we return home. I generally have everything of mine put away within the first hour and my suitcase carried down to the basement. Probably my “stow and go” mentality left over from the military. 

Today I have to “get back on the job”. Prior to vacation I worked extremely hard to get ahead so I wouldn’t have to rush when I came back. But today needs to be a writing day and since it is going to be a rainy day anyhow, why not make use of it. Tomorrow I will go to the church’s an make sure everything is in order. 

So, that’s it for today. Have a blessed day. Peace 

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

 Happy Tuesday morning. It is 62 degrees and sunny this morning, little to no breeze out there. The neighbor’s “rooster-beagles” as I call them are busy barking to make sure everyone in the neighborhood is awake. 

I thought that maybe by this morning the birds would have discovered that I have filled the feeders but so far, —- no one is around. That’s alright, they will discover it soon enough. One squirrel did just come through the yard and was carrying something in its mouth. I don’t know what that might have been. I don’t have any acorn bearing trees so it couldn’t have been a nut. It might have been a small tomato. What ever it is, the squirrel is looking around for a place to bury it right now. They are entertaining little critters. I do love watching them despite the fact they cost me a a lot of money in Black Oil sunflower seed. But, when one puts things in perspective; I guess it isn’t bad. I spend a little over $800.00 a year for the sunflower seed, and then about $400.00 for the other kinds of bird seed. That’s about $1,200.00 a year for my peace and comfort and relaxation and enjoyment. Some people spend that much for seats at the Super Bowl to see a game that I watch for free on my television. It’s all relative isn’t it?

According to my Google calendar, I should be heading home from vacation today yet. So, I guess tat means that I am still on vacation today. Maybe I need to review or make another chores list for today then.  There is certainly always something that needs to be done around here. Maybe today I could tackle my garage and straighten things up out there. Or, maybe today we could go put fall decorations on the family graves if Kate feels like it. I don’t know, we’ll see what the day brings. 

In the mean time, I hope you have a blessed day. Peace. 

Monday, October 2, 2023

 Here we are, at the end of the second day of October. I made good use of it. I had a long list of things to accomplish today and I managed to get through all of them. That makes for a satisfying day. 

We started off the morning by taking Kate to have her blood draw that she gets every six weeks to check on her Coumadin levels. Her surgeon last week had altered her schedule so we don’t know what  Dr. Jackson is going to say.  I’m glad to say that she is still dong fairly well since we have been home. Still has bouts of nausea but that is due to all of the antibiotics that they have her on. 

So, I got my front and back yard mulched and mowed today. The leaves are starting to fall in earnest. In a month they will be bare. I also put away some yard still and I filled all of the feeders in the Buffet. Everyone of them was totally empty. I won’t get a lot of takers this evening but by morning there will be a crowd. 

Even though Ms. Kate didn’t get out of the house while we were in Texas, (until she was hospitalized), Heather and Joh and I did do a couple of fun things. We went to a winery tat was called the “Rhinory” because it was also a rhino sanctuary. The rhino’s name was “Blake” and we got to eat up close and personal with it and give it “pets and scratches”. That was a first for me. We also did a wine tasting. My son-in-law John found some red wine he really liked. I’ drink white wine and what I tasted was “okay” but not as good as some of our local wines here in southern Indiana. Oliver wine will out pace it any day. 

But —- the most fun I had was going to Lukenbaach, Texas. I’ve heard the song for years and I actually thought that Lukenbach might’ve a rather large town in Texas but had no idea where it might be. It turns out that Lukenbach (pop-3) is just a privately owned wide spot in the road out in the middle of nowhere. BUt, they had a stage with a live band playing good country music, and a couple of souvenir shops, lots of picnic tables and a dance floor pavilion. I could have sat there all day, having a brew or two and listening to the music. It was the highlight of the trip. So, It so ever get to hill-country in Texas, put Lukenbaach on your bucket list and be prepared to sit back and relax and enjoy Cowboy Americana. 

That’s it for today. Have a blessed evening. Peace.