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Tuesday, Lois & I went to one of these retirement seminars that offers a free dinner. It was at Jersey Lily’s across from LGH. The speaker was very knowledgeable and put on a good presentation but the dinner was not very impressive. Wednesday was a Q&A session with RRB at work. It was very broad in an attempt to cover everybody because we all have different situations. I got an appointment to talk to them in person.
I didn’t drum at the café Wednesday but I saw my neighbor posted onto her FaceBook that she had had a bad day and “somebody please bring me a drink”. Hmm, that was only an hour ago. I poured 2 glasses of wine and knocked on her door, and we sat in her kitchen and chatted for about an hour. Thursday I cooked pot roast, bread, acorn squash, and lemon bars.
Friday, Carolyn & Chuck were coming through town on their way to a time-share vacation. I watched them on Waze when they were visible, worked through lunch, and took off work early to get home before they arrived. Lois was there already to let them in just in case. We all had pre-cooked dinner and Lois left. Chuck showed me some geneology documents and I gave them a copy of a family history booklet, then we played their game, Qwirkle. I lit the fireplace for the cozyness effect.
They left Saturday morning and I dashed out to a funeral at Oakey’s in Salem for Rodney’s mother. He spoke at the funeral and I sat with some of my pals from the convention. I drove in the (long!) procession to the cemetery and we stood in the rain under umbrellas. The whole bunch of us decided to go to Benny Marconi’s pizza place in the city market downtown and we paraded to that next. Mistake! The St. Patrick’s Day parade was earlier and the Celtic street festival was going on. Downtown was crowded but we found parking spaces in the garage. I got my pizza just before everybody else decided to go to Nawab for lunch, so I wrapped it to go and ate the Indian buffet instead. There were about 20 of us there with Rodney and we stuffed ourselves! I had to lie down and recover after I got home.
A lot of people at work have to move since they are closing our building, so I put up notices last week about donating stuff to the scholarship auction. One guy dropped off lots of books onto my porch Saturday, so I sorted them and picked out some sets to put into the auction.
Sunday was sunny and windy. I vacuumed, washed, waxed, Armor-alled, and Windexed Sue. I opened up windows and put the wind harp up; and even heard the big wind harp on the front porch. That one needs a good strong breeze to make it sing. I sat outside and read one of the donated books about the Tudors.