Arizona City friends

By email and phone we had reconnected with Arizona friends, John and Margie Cartwright and they invited us to their Wednesday Bible study at their house with a couple of friends of theirs.  They were waiting out on the front patio for us. Since last winter, John has added a hot tub to their Arizona City home. And just last week, he added these tiles for the chiminea.  He's always got a project going. An intimate group of four couples spent an hour in God's word and had a wonderful time of sharing.  Afterwards, we all went to Chris's for lunch. Here's John and Jim giving their orders to the waitress. Margie, Cheryl (Jim's wife) and Cheryl (Gary's wife). Gary and Cheryl. We had such a wonderful time together, that they moved their Bible study day to Thursday so we can come...  Don has men's Bible study here in the park each Wednesday morning.

When we arrived back at Sunscape we went to visit Mary, who we had heard had fallen on Sunday at the Golden Corral.  When we got to her house, she was very uncomfortable as she had cracked her tailbone when she sat down on the floor. (her chair slid away from her when she sat down... ouch)  She needed a "doughnut" cushion in a bad way, so Don and I went back to Casa Grande to get her a cushion.  For a little background:  Mary has been a widow for six years; she lives alone and she's on oxygen, which means that she mostly gets around on a scooter or golf cart.  Don and I came home and decided to sit out on the patio and enjoy the beautiful weather.  In just a few minutes, here comes sweet Mary on her scooter AND her "doughnut" cushion, with her oxygen, to give me this  pretty cross that she made: Slim and Pat stopped by on their bicycles while Mary was here and visited a while.  After they all left, Pat came back and invited us to go to dinner with them.  So we jumped into their van and went to Barney's buffet style restaurant for dinner.  They are great folks and we have made plans to play cards with them at another time.

Tonight, we watched OU Sooner's almost get beat by Texas A&M in basketball.