February 14, 2010:
No
Report for the past two weeks! Life has been so wildly exciting I just
haven't had time to write. Why, just last Friday, having coffee at
Reggie's with some of my buddies, we noticed a light post vibrating like
crazy. That kept us busy almost the whole coffee break speculating on
whether the wind could be so strong it would make the post vibrate.
Yep,
that's the way our life has been up Monday morning, off the the Field
House and get in our token mile-and-a-half walk, ten minutes on the rowing
machine, then coffee with a group of men, two of which are now ninety five
years old. They make us kids (still under eighty) feel like pikers.
After
lunch, I have a nap and Doreen reads. If I wake up in time, I go to
Reggie's for coffee.
Tuesday
morning, we sleep in until about 8:30, then go to the Co-op for coffee
with a different bunch of friends. The wives go too, and sit at a
different table. That lets the conversation at the men's table run wild.
Tuesday
afternoon, it's nap time again, and if I wake up soon enough I go to
Reggie's again. Joyce and Ron Weber are regulars at Reggie's, and Don and
Marilyn Breker are semi-regulars. They would be known to Greenwater
people.
Wednesday,
it's Field House again. After our walk, Lucille comes with us and we go to
Market Mall where I have coffee with the Wynyard/Foam Lake bunch and the
girls go shopping. This usually leads to having lunch at a cafe and
possibly more shopping afterwards. I keep a puzzle book in the car, since
I am just the driver I don't shop.
Thursdays,
we don't do much of anything; in fact, last Thursday I spent the entire
day playing solitaire on the computer and listening to music that I had
downloaded. It's mostly old stuff, all the way back to the forties. Songs
I once enjoyed and will likely tire of very quickly. Of course, I did
squeeze in a nap.
Fridays,
it's the Field House again, nap after lunch, and coffee at Reggie's.
Saturdays
are special we meet at the Travelodge for breakfast with our Sunseeker
buddies, and that is always a great time. If there is something on at the
Prairieland Park, we will take it in in the afternoon, or do a little last
minute shopping. Yesterday, it was shopping, but as a bonus we had a long
coffee break with Bev and Rick Warbanski, formerly of Porcupine Plain and
Wynyard.
On
Sundays, we have a well-deserved rest after such a busy week. I do manage
a nap, and coffee at Reggie's.
This
week was more exciting. We had a family brunch at Johnny Boy's, with
twenty two children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. We try to do
this every month; otherwise the cousins never see each other.
On
Monday, we had some friends in for a game of bridge in the evening the
men got whomped good, after a promising start.
On
Tuesday evening, we were invited out to a friend's place for supper, four
couples all together, and that was a great evening.
Wednesday,
we went to another production at Persephone Theater; were picked up by
taxi and taken to Parktown Hotel for dinner, then to the theater, and home
again after the show. It was a great show - Home Ice - and starred
the beauteous Andrea Menard and our weatherman, Jeff Rogstad. The other
two players were unknown to me. It was about a young couple he was a
carpenter with his own business, but prone to making promises for
renovations to their house that didn't get kept because of his obsession
with hockey, being an Oiler fan. She was a slightly pregnant and extremely
lovely photographer, whose patience was limited. He had a friend that she
hated something about destroying their wedding cake. The friend was a
role that would be well filled by John Belushi 'nuff said.
Anyway,
you can see why I just didn't have time to write a column.