We had the first beans out of our garden for supper last night and I’ll tell you – they were very good! We only had a few, because they are just starting and I am really looking forward to the next picking.

I was scheduled to play for a funeral up at my church today at 11:00, meeting with the soloist at 10:30. So I got to thinking, “What would happen if I forgot?” Well, I almost got to find out. I remembered when I got ready and I packed my change of clothes. I remembered when I was teaching tai chi and weight class. Then when coming out of weight class I saw a different group in the lounge than I usually see and realized I’d forgotten the board meeting starting in 2 minutes. I quick got my banana and scratch paper and headed to the meeting. It wasn’t until after the meeting as I was heading for my office that I remembered the funeral at 11:00. I looked at my watch, in horror, to see that it was almost 10 minutes to 11. AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! I ran in and grabbed my dress and ran to the bathroom to change and back to the office and hollered for the receptionist to call the church and say I was on my way. Miraculously I made it there by 3 minutes after and the funeral only started about 5 minutes late, but with no prelude and with me so frazzled that I started the first song’s introduction on totally the wrong notes on the piano. But I regrouped and finished that and it went fine, particularly since we hadn’t rehearsed AT ALL. Then when it was time for my first hymn, I’d forgotten to set the organ to the correct setting and I tried to do that while playing and it didn’t work, so the organ was too soft and the congregation kept dragging and dragging and I couldn’t do anything about it. But I figured it’s a funeral, so it’s okay if songs are slow. By the last song I had my wits about me and did a fine job on “Amazing Grace.” Then I played “It is Well” as the prelude and one lady even leaned over as she passed and said it was “just beautiful.” I apologized afterwards to the funeral director and he said it was no big deal – he’d even warned the vocalist that he might have to sing acappella. At least it was a fairly small funeral, because the woman was 98 when she died and people that age tend to not have many friends left. (one disadvantage of living to a very old age!) Anyway, I guess it could have been worse – I could have remembered sometime after 11:00, when I could have done nothing about it. I could have gotten picked up for speeding to Cameron, but I ended up behind a car going just a tad over the speed limit, so I couldn’t really pass, but I couldn’t really speed much either. I could have had people mad at me, but they didn’t really seem to be. I guess the prelude is mostly important to me. And to top it all off, this funeral home pays 50% more than the usual one, so I got more pay than I expected.