Thursday 30th May

Our Kiwani's speaker this morning was quite interesting.  She has a degree in urban planning and works for the Center for Community Development, and talked this morning about the regional resources for the community, and the different community organisations.   Her husband is the City Manager.

Later I went to Communion, then six of us went to lunch.  I was given the choice of restaurant and suggested the new one, where I'd had the buffalo wings I couldn't eat because they were too spicy.  I got a dubious look, and an "are you sure?".  But the fact that I didn't know buffalo wings are spicy was my fault, not the restaurant's, and I was impressed at their readiness to give me something else.   So I had plain, battered pieces of chicken, and the lunch and the fellowship was all very nice.

We are still having severe weather with tornadoes in Oklahoma.

 Broken Arrow is over in the north east of the state, about 100 miles away (or less if you're a crow and flying). 

 I haven't been on tornado alert today, but the severe weather is still about; from Dallas to Chicago. 

 These are what they call golf ball size hail stones.  They might not be the biggest but you wouldn't want to be out while they're coming down.

You see the stop line in the foreground, on the right hand side of the road?   Opposite, the pavement juts out doesn't it, so crossing over that intersection one has to make a slight swerve to the left to avoid it.   That's how I got my very flat tyre and bent wheel yesterday,  I didn't swerve enough and my wheel caught the edge of the pavement.   I had to have a new tyre, and if it had been any other auto engineer they would have put a new wheel on as well, but Terry's Dad said they were able to straighten out the wheel for me.I am so grateful to them for what they do for me.

I had my eyes tested three or four months ago and was told they were alright, but I am thinking I should perhaps have my peripheral vision tested again.  Perhaps by another optician.

From the holiday snapshots....

Davina and Miranda with friends, at the lunch Tim kindly hosted for me.