Sunday, June 1, 2008

My computer is driving me nuts!

My dumb computer only works for Travis! I'm not kidding! I have written down step by step instructions that work beautifully when he is here watching me and I'm able to post pictures just fine. The minute he leaves my luck walks out the door with him. I have some pictures from this past week but who knows if I'll be able to post before he returns with my good luck! My bet is........No, probably not! Sooooo, in the meantime, I will just tell you about the phone call we got this morning at 8:30. The phone rings, I pick it up as Gary is still asleep. (Church doesn't start until 10:00) I hear some confusion on the other end and then a male voice says, "Diane, this is Bob Bigler." My response, "I heard you were in Jerusalem."
"No, at the moment I'm on the Sea of Gallilee in Israel."
"Are you kidding me?!"
"No, really, I'm on a fishing boat on the Sea of Gallilee with Gerry Kirkland and we were just thinking about Gary. Is he available?"
"Sure."
I wake him up, hand him the phone with a curious explanation: "Bob Bigler calling from a fishing boat on the Sea of Gallilee."
Those two characters weren't kidding. I heard Gary yell, "You Hot Dogs! Living my Dream. Deep Sea fishing on the Sabbath."
Bob's reply, "Yea, and the sun is shining, there's not a cloud in the sky and the fish are biting! We just wanted you to know!" In the next breath he did admit that in the Holy Land, yesterday was the sabbath. Actually, this is an inside joke. Bob is a former bishop and Gerry is the second counselor in the bishopric. A few months ago Gary got called up out of the congregation to bear his testimony when a speaker didn't show up. His first comment into the microphone was, "Diane I told you I should have gone fishing today!"
I don't think there is a soul in the ward who doesn't know where Gary would rather be on any given Sunday!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I didn't think dad would EVER step foot on a deep sea fishing boat after the last time.... remember???:)