"Are You For Real????"

Today a fellow church member and I went to a small suburb of Des Moines. She recently put her house up for sale and wanted to check out Indianola, Iowa as a possible place to relocate. It took us approximately 35 to 40 minutes to get there. By the time we reached our destination, she had already decided against this particular move. Afterward she wanted to try a couple of other areas around town. She is not originally from Des Moines; but is from the islands, and has lived here for only a few years, so I was more or less helping her to find different areas to check out. We came to one really nice area on the South West portion of Des Moines. There were several houses for sale, and a few open houses. We went into one really lovely home, got the paper work and looked around. It was so funny because after we checked out the house and walked out, I told her ("what if they think we are gay; two women looking at a house). We cracked up laughing. It's funny how people can come to the wrong conclusion about situations. After we left the house, we discovered another "for sale" sign just around the corner. As she backed her car out of the parking lot, and turned the corner, we discovered some people standing on the porch of one of those houses. They were staring at us as if to say "oh no, what are they doing out here?" "Are they going to buy a house in our neighborhood and make the value go down?" We chuckled as we passed by and watched them as they seemed to stare us down as we drove by. We teased -- what if they were thinking that these two women who are probably lesbians and Black ones at that, are thinking of moving out here and corrupting the neighborhood? What can I say? Of course we are not lesbians, but two friends who work in the Children's Ministry Department at our church.

Another incident happened just the other night as I visited yet another church member's home after he lost his aunt of whom he was the care taker. Not only are we just friends but we kid and joke a lot with one another. He was a little buzzed, apparently from the whatever he had been drinking, and was joking around with me, as he always does. The next day i took food to the house and was basically there to give my respects to him and his family. My 85 year old dad, bless his heart, asked me if that was my boyfriend? "NO, I blurted out, we are just friends." People can certainly come to the wrong conclusions about things they think they see. *chuckle*

All in all, it turned out to be a beautiful day with a walk at Gray's Lake which is 2.6 miles around. It was rather warm even if the wind was blowing. Beautiful weather, beautiful! What are we in for????