Thursday

This is Erica. She works at the Consistory. She is my nephew's cousin and her folks have the Firkin N' Fox Pub in Des Moines.

Last night I went to a meeting there for the Scottish Rite Membership. It was a good meeting and while I did not contribute much of anything worthwhile I did enjoy myself. Kurt's wife's car died so I picked him up so his wife could have his car while he and I went to the meeting.

Erica was there with her mother and a bunch of her friends. I took pictures.







This is Marsha. She is my ex-brother in law's sister and my nephew's aunt. I have always liked her and her family. It was really neat to see her and visit with her.






The group. Very pretty. They were having a lot of fun.












Shane and Kurt stopped by to say hello as we were leaving.


Now on to my news.

A couple of weeks ago I had a lot of work done on my car. Part of what was done was the fixing of the passengers side window which had stopped going up and down. Last night we rolled it down and when we parked it quit going up and down. So it had to be pulled up and we (Kurt) could not get it to go up.

So this morning I called Denny's Automotive and they had me bring the car in to be fixed. While it was there I had them look at the brakes. They were vibrating and I wanted to make sure they were all right before I drive to Oklahoma in June. It did not cost anything to have the window fixed. But the brakes which needed rotors and pads cost about $400. Fun!

Then at Lodge tonight it was a case of "suppose you gave a party and the guest of honor did not show up. The Brother who was to get his Fellowcraft Degree was called in to work overtime and he did not let us know about it so we were all at Lodge and no candidate. So we made lemonade and had a practice. It was a good thing. You can always count on Masons to enjoy the time they have together.

Tomorrow we have our Specialis Procer stated Meeting. I am looking forward to going down to be with my Brothers.

I cannot believe that it has been 50 years since I graduated from High School. I graduated in 1959 from Gilbert High School. There were only 17 of us in our graduating class. We went to New York City and Washington DC for our High School Trip. I will post pictures of the trip sometime.

Thanks for stopping by. ARTYAL. Hugs, J-bear