Nice sunny day again... more below for this day .
This will be a summary of the highpoints of Joe Vaughan activity for May 2016. I know that you have been waiting anxiously for this report, so here it is.
May 1st... May Day... Elaine and I danced around our May Pole in the afternoon. Sunday morning is always spent by devouring all of the New York Times puzzles.
May 2nd.. A batch (actually 130) "Joe Vaughan Fan Club" pens showed up. In all of the colors of the rainbow.
May 4th.. In the morning I was one of only two people to show up for our Retired Federal Employees Board meeting, so we got a lot done.
In the afternoon, I got a long needle stuck in my right eye by Doctor Goldman. Yes, it hurt.
May 5th.. Elaine and I celebrated Cinco de Mayo by eating tacos..
May 6th.. Elaine and I got soaking wet visiting the Montessori School that her granddaughter, Lily, and grandson, Luca, attend. The school fed us lots of junk food and coffee, and the kids gave us flowers in clay pots to take home. Very nice, except that Elaine got sick from the soaking..
May 8th.. Mothers' Day. Elaine got nice flowers from her daughter and her family and also from my Christopher and Kathleen. All I sprung for was a card and a promise.
May 9th.. Time to buy beer.
May 11.. Our housecleaner lady showed up and scrubbed and dusted. She vacuumed a couple of cat's worth of fur from our living room rug.
May 12.. Morning.. lots of fun at the AARP Board Meeting.
Afternoon.. a friend from the Maryland States Attorney's office talked to us Retired Federal persons about scams, and how to avoid them.
May 13.. I thought about my half-brother Joe, who lives in Ohio. Today was his birthday.
(Friday the 13th?)
May 17.. Our friendly hairdresser tuned Elaine's hair and sliced a lot of mine off. It's funny, I didn't realize it, but apparently someone had dropped white hair all over the floor under where I was sitting.
(Joke time: Have you heard about the big accident on Route 32? One of those trucks that picks up the shorn hair from beauty shops overturned... and police are still combing the area.)
May 18.. Elaine and I went to the Olive Grove Restaurant for the Social Security Alumni annual luncheon. We were directed to the back of the place.. but none of the attendees looked familiar except for Stan W. I asked him why he was there, and he said it was for the SS Bowling League luncheon. He asked why we were there, since the SSAA luncheon was on May 19th. OOPS!
Well, I thanked Stan and gave him some "Joe Vaughan Fan Club" pens. Elaine and I decided to stay and eat as long as we were there. However, later, Elaine's wheelchair got stuck in the ladies' room, and the management had to keep the women out of the room until I could get her free. We decided then that she would not want to get into that situation again, and would stay home tomorrow.
May 19th.. At ten AM, I conducted our monthly TRIAD meeting. Nice attendance. The Westminster Police sent another guy to take Keith B's place. Keith just retired. More about this guy in the future... very interesting person.
At eleven AM, I raced to the Olive Grove Restaurant again and enjoyed the SSAA luncheon. An author spoke to us.. and I bought one of her books. I also suggested that she write a story about the famous museum heist in Boston. (You know... the one where Whitey Bolger might have been involved.) She said she might do that.
I gave out a lot of "Joe Vaughan Fan Club" pens.
May 20.. this was Elaine's daughter, Emily's 40th birthday.
May 21.. We attended Emily's surprise Birthday Party in Aberdeen. We relied on Internet directions and got hopelessly lost. Finally we got there when the party was almost over... but we still had a good time.
May 23.. Our cleaning person, Dinah, showed up again and scrubbed the kitchen floor and vacuumed the rugs. Yes, once more, she vacuumed up two or more cat's worth of fur. No wonder our allergies bug us. How can such a small cat have so much fur to shed?
May 24.. Elaine visited Karen, her nurse practitioner. It seems as though every other day we are going to doctors.
May 25.. 11 am... I went to my "Train the Brain" class. Elaine wants to know when my brain will be completely trained.
12 noon.. I went to the CLV Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon. I received a "silver" award and a letter from President Obama for having more that 100 hours of volunteer service in some period of time. Also, the servers forgot me when they put out the dishes of food, so when I finally got served everybody else was finished. I had to leave before they dished out the yummy strawberry shortcakes.
2:50 pm.. I took Elaine to the eye doctors for an examination. I hope she doesn't get glasses that are too good.. because she may not want to keep me if she finds out what an ugly dude I am.
May 30.. Memorial Day.. I cooked ribs... turned out great.
May 31st.. (today) I planted the two rolls of tomato seeds in too large yellow pots on the deck. If all goes well, we should have lots of grape tomatoes by the end of July.
I also put up the two-way mirror seed feeder on one of the windows. I'm hoping that a squirrel or a big old crow will not knock it down and break it. One of the hazards of bird feeding.
Our chickadee family is still peeping a lot in their hanging birdhouse. The mama and papa continually bring bugs and worms to the wide open beaks of their little children. I wonder how the babies will get out of the house when they are supposed to... do they suddenly fly? Time will tell.
Tonight, we spent an enjoyable supper with our friend, Rosemarie. Scallops and asparagus. Lousy beer though. They ran out of "Flying Dog."
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Now, I know... this has probably been a boring time, reading this summary, but I wanted to try it.. I like to experiment with the writing of different types of information. It's how I get my exercise.
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