Saturday turned out to be once again another beautiful day with no rain (which we could use a little), blue skies and bright sunshine. The temps stayed down in the low 70's with a cool start in the low 50's. Just picture perfect weather for being outside but we started the afternoon in the building at Cornerstone around 1 PM to start the pickle ball ministry. Four of us players met there and moved the chairs, outlined the court with painters tape, set up the new portable net and played for 2 plus hours then reset the chairs for the service this Sunday morning gathering. We had a few visitors come by but it was just the 4 of us; me, neighbor Gerald, Craig and Rick. Two of our other regulars; Steve and Ted were tied up for the day and weren't able to be there. There were a couple who said they would attend but were no shows. I think the facility will accommodate at least 2 more courts and be a good venue for an invitational tournament for the area in the future and Pastor B who came by and watched seemed very interested in the prospects of that occurring. He was delighted the building was getting some use other than Sunday morning and for concerts.
The morning started much the usual after an early wake up by me as I planned the layout of the court in my sleep. We started the morning with a large breakfast after forgoing supper on Friday night. We fried up a couple sausage patties along with eggs on biscuits and a tomato for me. Yeow good eatin' and that held me to supper except for a few sunflower seeds when I got back from pickle ball around 4'ish. We did get our daily morning hike in around 11'ish to the top of the mountain. We stopped and visited with the Browning's for a few minutes before heading on back to the cabin. I picked up Gerald a little after twelve as I wanted to stop by the library while we were in town for a book Nancy had ordered before heading out to set up the pickle ball court at Cornerstone.
After leaving Cornerstone with a wet shirt I lounged around for an hour watching a little U.S.Open tennis and college football before we got ready to head back to town for an evening at Kay and Gerald Luffman's house. Nancy made a baked bean casserole to take with us to go along with corn on the cob from their garden, pork barbecue and slaw as well as a Toffee pie made by Mechelle and then we settled into a few games of Sequence.
Well the boys spanked the gals ready big time the first 2 straight games which is usually the overall winner in the best 2 out of 3 games, but some how the rules were changed when the gals came back and won the next 3 games in a row after we declared ourselves the winners of the night, and lost our edge. Oh well it was a fun night and we( Gerald, Caleb and myself) played honorably despite the accusations by the gals in the first 2 games as we tore them up. It was a fun night with good eatin', great raucous fellowship and never a dull moment as it was after 9 before headed back to the cabin. Today is the gathering at Cornerstone for corporate worship with some really nice sweet people of the mountains, LATER
