July 24 – “Captain America”

We saw Captain America yesterday.  No, not in person.  He's a comic book character.  And it's from the Marvel Universe, which everyone knows is not really real.  Now if you want to experience a real universe in comic book form, check out the early DC stuff.  You know, your basic Superman, Batman, Green Lantern.  I did like the movie, though.  And I recognized the really rich guy with the little mustache that turns into Iron Man.  But that's another movie.  Since I never did read the comics I had no prior image to be shattered by Hollywood's poetic license.  We did stay through the credits to see the preview of The Avengers.  I must say that was a waste of time.  The only somewhat recognizable character I saw was what I think was supposed to be Thor, but I haven't seen that movie yet, so I'm not sure.    Before the movie we did some sweat work.  Chris finished weeding the big flower bed in the back yard.  I fixed a footstool.  It was in Mom's room and one of the legs fell off.  I made wooden dowel to hold the pieces together.  Hopefully that and the glue and the replacing the two finishing nails it already had in there will do the trick.  Once I finished that I started on the front flower bed.  That would be the one with all the periwinkles that showed up uninvited after Hurricane Ike.  They have been quite the tenant every year.  Once again, in spite of the drought, they have taken over the area under the sycamore tree.   I had a rehearsal at five for a wedding tonight.  Unusual situation there.  The wedding will be at the Lyceum, a chapel or something like it associated with the big Lutheran church downtown.  They couldn't get in for the rehearsal, though, so we did that in a random room at the San Luis Hotel, where the reception will be.  The room was pretty small, and they have eleven attendants … each.  Plus two ring bearers and a flower girl.  I have to hand it to them, however.  At least everyone except the flower girl was there and ready to begin.  Of course the door to the room was locked.  The front desk told us they had been moved to another room, but when the wedding coordinator arrived she knew nothing about that.  We ended up in the room we started with.  It was a little chaotic getting twenty-two twenty-somethings to calm down enough to go over the ceremony.  We finally finished the run-through and the practice exit and everyone was hanging around waiting for instructions about the rehearsal dinner, when the flower girl arrived.  They had been all over the hotel looking for us.  And they had two hotel employees as escorts.  I managed to get everyone's attention one last time, and we did one last run-through for the benefit of the little girl.  After all that Chris and I still managed to make it to some friends' house for dinner.   Proverbs 20:11 says, "Even a child is known by his actions, by whether his conduct is pure and right."   Father, guide my actions to be pure and right.  Help me remember someone is always watching me and seeing you.  Amen.