Sunday

Well it was a cool morning to start the day; when I say cool I mean it wasn't hot and muggy and actually very pleasant. It was get ready to head to Tampa for worship at Element Church with son, Bobby. After my quiet time and a lite breakfast of fruit we got ready to carpool with neighbors Dan and Carol. Bobby had an awesome message on "forgiveness" using several analogies that Jesus used to demonstrate what real forgiveness was all about. The music was very inspiring as well with a great ending song sung by our sweet friend Esther; what a great time of worship. The blood drive was there but I opted out as I'm playing a pickle ball tournament Monday morning and thought better of donating this time around. The blood folks say to not do any real physical activity for 24-48 hours as you build your reserve back, anyhow we headed home.

We just watched tournament basketball throughout the afternoon until it was time to head out for a buffet supper being held at my old country club where I played tennis for years. Seem SFBC was having a building fund drive and they were recognizing daughter Amy as she was born into the church and has remained there raising Ava and Sam in the church as well. Very little has been done to upgrade the children's area since she and Bobby were children there so they used her as a poster child who was now raising her kids in an inadequate and outdated facility. We were invited as well and it was great to see some of the long time friends and members we were associated with for over 30 years. We have never moved our membership but have no desire to go back with the current pastor, who has been there nearly 13 years. There were probably a couple hundred folks there and the food was decent although this facility is outdated as well especially the a/c system which had everyone a little warm.

We headed home around 8 PM to watch USF Bulls lose in their round of play to Ohio but Florida won big and FSU was still playing when I cut the lights out around 11PM, LATER.