Awake: 5:55am Temp 69 sleep 5+47 partly cloudy overnight @ Nicktown.
K & I drive over to the church hall to have breakfast. Eating here is like having a short reunion with many of the town’s people & some from the suburbs; it’s a great meal with opportunities galore to socialize. This morning, we chose my 1st cousin Gloria & her husband Bill to sit with. As a senior in high school, Bill was my math teacher & he was good.
Later, Ken, who loans me his John Deere tractor, visits our table with his wife, Theresa & their college daughter, Veronica. Before we left the building, we also visited Aaron & Sara & their young daughter Madeline; during winter 2005, Aaron was the driver of the manure truck that pulled our motorhome out of the snow drift, made a path with his truck into our circular drive, enabling us to follow his tracks & get positioned close enough to our camping site for the remainder of the winter.
Back @ our coach, Kathy makes potato au-gratin & a big mixed salad & 3 different salad dressings for tonight’s dinner while I pick some more wild strawberries on our property.
@ 4:00pm, we drive to Lilly (21) miles to help celebrate my sister Corinne’s 61st birthday with my bro Don, his wife Josie & the Foote family including their (8) week old puppy, Kinley, who is part Australian sheep dog & part Border collie + Sister Jane, one of Corinne’s roomies.
Corinne asked me if I could get the upstairs TV connected to their cable source; (40) min later, I had to give up; trying to match a very old TV to a modern digital receiver without any extra plug in cables was getting me nowhere. All I could recommend was a much newer TV.
We socialized & ate dinner on the back porch facing east, which was very comfortable. Shrimp ka-bobs grilled by Corinne, potato au-gratin & a large salad made by Kathy; dessert: ice cream cake from Dairy Queen, brought by Don & Josie. Earlier snacks by Corinne: mixed nuts & potato chips. Our mini family gathering for Corinne’s birthday was very nice with lots of good chats & very good grub.
DVR movie: “Notorious” We watch (15) min tonight.
Lights out: 12:02am
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