The most interesting thing that happened Saturday was that I attended a half hour conversational Spanish class that just started. The lady leading it has spent 30 years in the Valley, on and off. It is very informal. She has a Power Point presentation. Each slide has some Spanish phrases in Spanish, then English and then the phonetic pronunciation of the Spanish phrase. She gives out copies of the file so that those who want can print out the information. She plans on the class running through late March or maybe mid-April.
The first phonetic spelling is from class, the second is from an online English/Spanish dictionary.
Bienvenido - Welcome – bee n vin
need doe – byehm beh nee doh
Aqui se habla espanol – Here we speak Spanish (Spanish spoken here) -ah
key say ob la s pan yol – ah kee seh ah blah ehs pah nyohl
Hola – hello – o la
Buenos Dias – good morning –
when ose dee us – bweh nohs dee ahs
The above is from 1 1/2 of the 7 slides from the first class.
My back was back to about 90% so in the afternoon I did 20 minutes on the campground treadmill. The day was cool and windy. The high was 70 degrees at midnight Friday night. By mid day it was in the low 60's. The wind was blowing 15-20 mph with gusts of 25-30 mph. We pulled in the slide with the ripped slide topper.
Sunday was different for us. After services the Cowboy Church was holding the final Buckle Series contests for the youth. The regular campground Pastor and his wife were back in Kansas for a week. The retired Pastor who led our coed Bible study last week was scheduled to preach at the campground. Kathy was leading the music. They were doing songs that I really like. I had planned on listening to Bill preach here and then going to the Cowboy Church and staying to watch the kids, it is great fun watching them sort cattle, barrel race, etc. Kathy put pork roasts on to cook at 6:30 AM and needed to tend to them during the day. Also, she was not interested in sitting out on open bleachers watching the kids on a cold windy day. The high for the day was forecast to be a cloudy, windy, 59 degrees. I intended on going to the Cowboy Church service and staying for the event. I got up around 7 AM and didn't fell well. I felt better and went to the 9:30 AM campground service but did not go to the Cowboy Church.
Kathy stayed after church to tend the roasts, came home for lunch and then went back to the clubhouse. We had a football game on the TV and did some reading. I spent a little time looking at the Spanish slides on my computer. A little before 4 PM I went back to the clubhouse for the Christmas for the Children fund raiser. A pulled pork sandwich, a bag of chips, desert and a drink for $7. They served 40-50 people from 4:00-5:45. A singer came in and provided entertainment from 6-8. He sang mostly older country & western. By older I mean I knew at least some of the words to every song he sang, and I don't know any country and western singers newer than George Strait/Alan Jackson/Vince Gill/Garth Brooks/Josh Turner. His voice reminded me of Josh Turner when he sang Long Black Train. Kathy even liked him. We stayed for the first hour. He had quite a few old folks out dancing. I counted 12 ladies out on the floor line dancing during one song.
By the way. Bill delivered a very good message, about prayer.
God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours. He has blessed me.
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