Bonz' Canine Social

During Father's Day after I'd gotten home from Ohio, we took Bonz to a "Canine Social". It was at our local Brusters Ice Cream Parlor. They had games, prizes, free ice cream in a cup for the dogs. It was sponsored by the woman who dog sat Bonz for us during the wedding in January. There were scores of dogs there. It was great seeing all the other kinds of dogs and they all got along very well together. Of course they were all on leashes, but Bonz seemed to have a good time.

Yesterday, Dee went to her exercise class in the morning and then we shopped for supplies for the 16 Bogmeisters who came over last night for rehearsal. We just had hotdogs and potato salad with iced tea and lemonade and cookies. Most of the meeting we debriefed our trip to Apple Corps and what we learned. By the time we started rehearsing it was getting dark out, but we rehearsed some anyway. Even in the dark for a bit. They all left by about 9:40 PM. and since most of the food was gone, I figure they had a good time. (We try to have one rehearsal a month at someone's home through the summer.)

My mom called during the practice and Dee answered the phone. Mom thought I'd called her. But I hadn't. It seems she hears my voice making the answering announcement on the answering machine and thinks it's me calling her. That's the third time she's done that. Next time I go to her place, I'll have to change the announcement answering calls to her voice.

Dee's mom is at St. Johns Specialty Care in Mars. She had a day or two when we was listless and not eating much. But when Dee saw her on Sunday she was doing better. She plans to see her today to see how things are going.

I'm in the process now of getting ready for my speaking engagement at FBC of Monroeville this Sunday the 22nd. That should be fun. I've never preached there before and I some of my former members at Wilkinsburg attend there. I also got call to preach at FBC of Aliquipa, PA on the 29th which will be interesting since I've never preached there before, although I have been inside the church on many occasions when I preached here in W PA. Looking forward to that too.