An Uneventful Week During Which a Lot Happened

It is high time that I caught this little diary up for this week. For an uneventful week, a lot has happened. Ha! How is that for an oxymoron.

I'll start out by telling about the February Christian Women's Club meeting. On January 18th I wrote about our disastrous January meeting. We were trying out a new location, Flagship Enterprises. The luncheon was very meager and not very good. Besides, the caterer committed the ultimate sin: no dessert and no coffee for ladies of a certain age, namely my age.

So last Tuesday, we traveled to Edgewood Country Club for our February meeting, and to see if it might be an acceptable meeting place. I am happy to report that our meeting and luncheon were both a huge success. The meeting rooms are lovely and our food was delicious. The servers did a stellar job, and we had lots of dessert, and all the coffee we could drink. Mary Jackson presented her program about the Ukraine. She is always so entertaining and interesting. Her son, Scott, is a teacher and his Ukrainian wife are both teachers in the Internation School there, so Mary and Bob have visited several times. They also have two grandchildren there.
Mary reports that the family will soon move to China to teach in the Internation School there. Soon, Mary may be giving programs about China. Although Russian is Mary second language. She majored in Russian in school, and is licensed to teach Russian.

We had several lovely days of sunshine and warm weather last week. By the week end our streets were completely clear, and grass was the only thing in the yards. Hallelujah! WE DID sit on the porch one afternoon, and it was totally comfortable in the sunshine. I think it was Wednesday, when the temperatures went to 60 and there was no wind. The next day was warm, but cloudy and windy, so no porch sitting that day.

Over the weekend, I visited the funeral home. Two friends passed away, and their calling hours were at the same time, and at the same funeral home. Sister Carmencita, who served as the liason between the Victoria Guild and St. John's Hospital, passed away after being in intensive care with pneumonia. She was such a beautiful person with so much common sense, such a voice of reason, so loving, and possessed a delightful sense of humor. She was just the perfect person to work with the hospital volunteers. She will be SO missed.

The other death was Don Cook, one of our high school class officers who always worked on our class reunions. He was still actively running his own business, and was very active with many community groups. Sadly, we keep losing many class mates.
This can be expected, since we are all in our mid seventies. I just keep forgetting, in spite of my stiff joints, that we are not still kids.

Daughter-in-law, Debra, celebrated her birthday on Monday. We planned to take them out for dinner. But their lives are SO busy. Debra runs their business, DeCapo Enterprises, Rod teaches full time at Ball State University, and together they write a food blog call Smithbites. They are co-planning a bloggers workshop or convention in Savannah that will happen in a couple of weeks. The blog just keeps getting better and better. They have several sponsors now, and have become acquainted with well known bloggers, food writers, cook book authors from all over the country. They now have our granddaughter, Avery, a student at IU, writing some of their blog entries. Avery is an exceptional writer, and hopes to make writing her life's work.

Anyway, this evening they found the time to come over for dessert, and for Debra to open her birthday gifts. It was great to see them, and we did enjoy the visit. It is always good to hear the stories about their lives, their pets, their work, and their friends.

Menta met today for lunch at MCL. It is Norma Spear's birthday, so we all brought cards for her. Last Friday while Norma, Ginny, and I were working at the library, I had selected a couple of books to bring home, and had set them aside on the table.
One of them was a decorated cupcake cook book that I thought granddaughter, Lydia, would like. When I got ready to go home, I couldn't find my books. Norma had packed them up to take to the hospital for their book cart! So Sunday when I saw Norma who was also visiting at the funeral home, she said she had my cook book in the car. Later, in the parking lot, she gave me the book and said that now I had to make cupcakes for our break! Well, today I took cupcakes to Menta for her birthday.
The were decorated to look like fried eggs. ( That was the easiest decorating idea in the book.) I also gave her a card with a duck on the front that quacked when opened. I wrote a birthday poem with a lot of poultry references. Needless to say, Menta had a very fun birthday party today. We even lit one candle that Ginny brought, and sang "Happy Birthday." I'll bet MCL and its customers are happy when all those noisy, yakking women leave. We stay about 2 hours. However, they are all very nice to us, and seem to love having us meet and eat there.

Whew! Long entry. But that about brings me up to date. See - a lot did happen during this uneventful week! After this week of premature springtime, I won't even mention tonight's winter storm forecast for Friday.