January 1, 2005

New Year's Day, 2005

C.A.R.E. Centre

DAY 197

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR !

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Today was hot and humid, partially cloudy.

We slept late, then did some maintenance and housekeeping chores this morning. After lunch, I took a nap, then went to the e-mail room to do some online work. Lorri phoned as I was driving from the C.A.R.E. Centre over to the Rainbow's End main registration building, where there is an e-mail room with phone jacks for modem connections. I was too lazy to walk over. Joanne went over to Helen Farrell's to check if she had remembered to take her new medication today. She had. Then Joanne went over to visit with Arley. She was going over to offer to take him for a walk, but he said he didn't want to go out for a walk. He did want a visitor, though, so Joanne spent much of the afternoon visiting with him.

Joanne and I reunited at 4:00 P.M. social hour. After social hour, we took Ginger for his afternoon walk. We take Rodney Elam's Ginger out three times a day for a few minutes each time. Ginger is ten years old, so doesn't take too long to get done what needs to get done. Not like taking a young dog like Bo out, who gets distracted from the matter at hand by every leaf that blows by. After walking Ginger, we took Bo out, and for the second time since we've been over here at C.A.R.E., Bo found something crunchy to eat while we're walking him. I don't know what he's picking up. Maybe gum balls from the gum trees we walk under. All of a sudden, he'll be chewing something crunchy, and when I yell at him and try to grab it out of his mouth, he just chews fast and swallows quickly ! Great ! Now we have a stupid dog to go along with our stupid cat !

We had a bit of a New Year's celebration dinner. I had crawfish étoufée, Joanne had boudin, and we shared a bottle of wine from the Ozarks. The crawfish étoufée and the boudin were bought at Poché's in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. Boudin are spicy pork sausage balls. The bottle of Ozarks wine was a gift from Sharon and Jack Board, other WorkCampers at YMCA Of The Ozarks. Thanks, Sharon and Jack. < whispering and rolling eyes > Now we know why Missouri wines are not particularly well known throughout the world.

After supper, Joanne returned Lorri's phone call, and had a long chat with her sister. I did a teensy bit of year end accounting. Not much. I feel really lazy today.

DSK