FRIDAY, 8/31/12
Greg Boutwell’s surgery went well and the family got a good initial report. The surgery was short but the wait time was long as the surgery did not begin until somewhere around 3:30PM. (Folks, when you are stuck in the hospital waiting room with Greg’s daughter, Kim French, it makes for a long day! Her husband, David, needs our prayers!)
Art Elliott remains hospitalized. There was a new redness and swelling in his leg so they decided to give him another round of antibiotics. I will no longer predict when Art will be discharged from the hospital.
I have to give props to Charles, Soy, and Rita as they were picking up limbs whenever I got home late yesterday afternoon. As a matter of fact, they had a lion’s share of them picked up already. You thought we had already picked them up? We had a worse night on Wednesday as far as the weather was concerned than we did on Tuesday so there were “millions” of limbs on the ground. Had I known they were picking up limbs I would have waited at the hospital another hour or so – no wait, I would rather pick up limbs than be stuck in the waiting room with Kim! Pray for Soy as he was bitten by two ants and he whined the entire time about how much it hurt!
Joe David offered to send Jason Bowling to help and Eddie thought Jason was covering for him. Folks, having Jason Bowling work with you is like losing three good men! I am serious! Josh Schlehuber is coming today and the same principle applies!
I used the phrase “lion’s share” earlier in this post. I am now being told that such phrases cannot be used as they “may” offend others. Example – one can no longer use the phrase “Dutch treat” as it may infer that Dutch folks are cheap. I know several Dutch folks (Tom Compagner comes to mind) and in a word they are – cheap! LOL!
The Danville Hawks started the season with a win last night. Rumor has it that the new assistant volunteer coach is already paying huge dividends.
Ross Genzink, Rusty Suthoff, Soy, and I are leaving today headed to Arlington, Texas for the Bama versus Michigan game that will be played tomorrow night. I have every plan to be back in time to fill the pulpit on Sunday morning and evening. (I “may” not make the first morning service but should be home in time for the second service) Pray for our traveling mercies. By the way, I can assure you that it will not be “Dutch treat” when we stop to eat as Soy & Rusty will just look at me when the server asks if the ticket should be split! Ross will claim he forgot his wallet (my girls tell me that it is old school to use the word wallet) and complain about how much it cost him to fly to Mobile. (Bill Kendrick has basically begged to join us on this trip as he absolutely loves Bama football but we do not have an extra ticket!)
I pray that you will have a great Friday with Jesus.