Awake: 6:30am Temp 63 sleep 7+19 fog….then sunshine overnight @ Nicktown.
K & I attend 8:00am Mass & then join the KK for a mere (15) min. A lot of us @ the meeting have a volunteer job to attend to this morning; Kathy will be reporting for work @ 10:30; my report time: 9:30 & we want to eat a healthy breakfast before starting.
Like last yr, I join the group that spreads out the awnings, which will shade the hungry customers who are standing in line for dinner. It sounds easy; but 1st a healthy rope is zigzagged diagonally between the Pavilion & the church hall, a distance of approximately (30) ft. Then (4) large plastic awnings are fastened & laid on those diagonally stretched ropes; next, another zigzagged rope is fastened & laid on top of the awnings, preventing any awning to practice flying maneuvers. This took up most of our morning.
Next, I helped move tables & chairs into outdoor seating positions; after that, we moved & hid the carts that we used to move the tables & chairs. My last job today @ the picnic was: stacking hot dog buns, hot sausage buns & hamburger buns onto shelves. I liked this job the best, for when finished, I made & ate a double hamburger on a bun filled with fried veggies….as a test. I approve of this café.
Moments later, Kathy shows up; she too tests the grill, bun & burger & highly recommends this place. She has finished her job of preparing chicken wings for the beer tent and chicken breasts & legs for the shut-ins. We both return to our bus by 1:15pm.
@ approximately 2:15 pm, I was just finishing up my shower when Mark & Joan rang our doorbell; our guests who drove in from Navarre, Ohio have arrived. We gab for some (3) hrs having a little wine & healthy mixed nuts & then, walk to the community center, do a fast but efficient tour & then, attend the very crowded 6:00 pm vigil Mass.
After Mass, we stand outside & introduce M & J to some of the locals & gab for another (20-30) min. Next we walk down to the picnic grounds & give M & J a sneak preview of what will be happening tomorrow….for us, starting @ 10:30am. For some of the workers, their start time: 3:00am.
Back @ our motorhome, Kathy serves dinner for (4): stuffed peppers, cucumbers in cream sauce & whole grain bread + some of M & J’s homemade wine they brought with them.
What a coincidence; it’s Joan’s 39th birthday. Kathy knew it so she baked a pie. We sing the birthday song & devour half of a chocolate cream pie in a pecan crust. We sit & yak for awhile & then watch a slide show that Mark has on his memory stick of pictures from his summer activity around their home; travels to Anacortes, WA visiting their daughter, Molly, & across the Atlantic to visit another daughter, Julie, & other scenes in Ukraine… until 10:25pm. Then J & M leave & motor to their weekend B & B in Dilltown, PA, (17) miles from Nicktown. What a delightful couple; we’ll be hanging out with them again tomorrow.
Lights out: 11:51pm
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