Lawrence 150 Years

|Saturday was a “Lawrence Birthday Party” to celebrate its 150th birthday, as a city, I guess. Things started off with a parade through downtown.||

|After the parade there were activities at South Park including various performances. There was a shortened version of Ballad of Black Jack, some dancers, some singers and, of course, some Indians.||

In the evening was a concert at South Park. It was dark so I didn’t get photos. The main event was Kelley Hunt and she was totally amazing. We grabbed up her new CD “New Shade of Blue” and got it autographed. I mean, she was fantastic. I was trying to figure out what kind of music it was. It was some sort of blues-boogie-R&B. Whatever it was, it was great. I gathered she was either born in Lawrence or lived here sometime.

Closing Out Another Weekend

|Today was the Lawrence Parks Department Fall Arts Festival at South Park. Being another perfect day, we went downtown to check it out. A very pleasant Sunday afternoon. But I thought it wasn’t fall until Sep. 22.||

|The park itself was beautiful. They’ve done some great landscaping, lots of flowers.||

Evelyn was released from the hospital on Friday and is back home at the Christian Care Cottage in Ottawa. We visited her there Friday evening.

Becky worked yesterday on account of the KU football game. KU beat Toledo 63-14. Unreal. Oklahoma beat Houston 63-13. I washed and waxed the Miata.

Update on Evelyn

Becky’s mom finally had hip surgery around 5:00 p.m. yesterday (Tuesday). Becky and Judy went to the hospital yesterday morning and stayed all day. A couple of pins were installed. Supposedly it went routinely and well, but they kept her in intensive care overnight ostensibly on account of low oxygen absorption. Hopefully, when we visit this evening, she’ll be out of ICU and won’t have pneumonia.

ADDENDUM: Evelyn’s doing pretty good. Out of ICU, in a regular room, sitting up in a wheelchair when we arrived, and lucid. Had a nice visit.