Awake: 6:28am Temp 41 sleep 6+25 rain overnight @ Indiana, PA.
After coffee in our room, K & I drive (5 min) to the Comfort Inn &
exercise for 45 min in their hotel’s small exercise room. Our hotel is a
sister of the Comfort Inn. There were only (3) machines but it’s a start.
Back @ our hotel we have breakfast in our room…..then Kathy leaves with
(3) rather small bags of laundry. She will be picking up Katrina & Eriko &
then it’s off to the Laundromat. I have another freedom morning to do as I
like; read newspaper; crossword puzzle, computer, etc.
Early afternoon, she calls from the Foote house; the laundry is finished &
now she’s prepping the dinner meal. “Am I ready to be picked up?” she asks
me. I question her on the current activities & the condition of the Foote
infirmary & patients. The retired nurse reports that Jerry & Nick are much
better but Matthew has a 102 degree fever; Katrina & Eriko complain of
having sore throats & Melissa is also nursing a sore throat. So far, Zack
continues to have a clean bill of health. “Hmmm, maybe you should pick me
up next month; oops, I mean mid afternoon.”
Kathy hits the Wal-Mart for more groceries en route for my pick up; on our
return to the Foote house, Melissa had another request for things @
Martin’s. It was then that I finally confessed to my nurse: my throat is
feeling funny. Oh no! Vitamin C & A she prescribes.
The Foote house is rather quiet. Bodies lying hither & yon; Christmas 2005
memories suddenly return. Since my technical buddy Matthew is temporarily
out of service for any repair assistance, I feel it necessary to finish
work on the Playskool toy & fix it up properly before Jerry gives me the
evil eye. 30 min or more on some critical surgery & the Playskool machine
is working normal again + Eriko is happy that her heavy investment was
well selected.
5:10 dinner: Chili-mac with corn chips & homemade corn bread.
After the young boys are all in bed, Katrina introduces the game of “speed
Scrabble” to us adults. With the girls playing, the game went supersonic.
With just us guys playing, the jet plane simply taxied around the runway.
How did these ladies get so smart!
Today’s high=53 Lights out: 12:04am
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