MONUMENT — I can feel the approaching of summer! Well, maybe when the wind isn’t trying to blow away items around your home, bringing trees down, etc…LOL. The weather here has been such that it seems warm and sunny, but when you go outside, that is not the case. The wind cuts through ya and makes that sunny appearance just that, a sunny appearance but not really warm. I did go looking for some summer clothes which I got to wear for like an hour! Ah well, I am sure summer will be here soon enough.

Our greeters at the table were Bob Cockrell and Sue Cavender. They checked in all the guests, collected, and counted up the money. Jan Ensign and Linda Abraham filled out the paperwork. Bob led us in the flag salute and made the announcements. Yours truly prayed the blessing over the meal. The winner of the free meal ticket was Ed Falls.

 

Our cooks, Terry Cade and Carrie Jewell, made us fried fish, chicken strips, jojo potatoes, cole slaw, and mandarin orange cooler cake for our dessert. We also had homemade tartar sauce and cocktail sauce. I had to go back for seconds. We appreciate and thank our cooks and their hard work.

Carrie Jewell will be the new Post Master at the Kimberly Post Office and so we bid her adieu from her cooking at the Monument Senior/Community lunch. We will miss her but wish her the best at her new endeavor. We thank her for her 31 years of service.

Bingo is always the last Saturday of every month. They start at 5:00PM and are now having potluck dinner first before starting the Bingo game. Cards are 25 cents each per game. You may be a lucky winner. They play twenty rounds.

Well, we finally got one baby goat so far. It was not one of the goats we suspected would give birth but an unexpected one. Puddles, who is a first time mama, gave birth to a very adorable looking buckling. She only had the one. I have decided to name him “Bucky”.

Bucky is like a milk chocolate color with a white spot on the top of his head, long ears, and he has blue eyes. Puddles has been super protective of him and follows her baby around and won’t really eat. I am sure that will get old real quick once she realizes that she needs to keep up her strength and is super hungry.

I have been milking Puddles in anticipation of bottle baby goats. Puddles does not like to be milked. It is a battle, but I am determined that I will win. Ha. Maybe — Puddles is not a very tame goat but I was hoping that I could tame her down. If she continues to be stubborn, she will have to go. I don’t need stubborn goats and she has tried to nibble my fingers and also tried kicking. Someone needs to have better hobbling tools for smaller goats, sheesh. We will see who wins the battle of milking!

Romans 3:23 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

PRAIRIE CITY — Well, I did it! If I am out mowing the lawn, I think I am safe in putting the snow shovels away!!

I have been able to work out in the yard the last couple of days now that I’m almost over whatever virus that went through my system. Ten days of it was quite enough, thank you. But I am thankful that it only affected my head, i.e. sinus cavities. I am always amazed at how much mucus is able to come out of those little areas. (Ahem) Anyhow, on to bigger and better things!

We had our Easter Dinner today with ham and scalloped potatoes, green beans, deviled eggs, applesauce, a dinner roll, and your choice of banana cream or coconut cream pie. And, as usual, the drinks included water,,coffee,,milk and an assortment of juices. Yummy, yummy in the tummy. Thanks to our great cooks Pam and Pam.

Our volunteers included Carla, Sharon, Gwynne, Mary, Teresa, Tom, Pam and Lori who did everything from registering diners to delivering meals to after-meal clean- up. Thanks so much to all of you. Colin led the flag salute and Tom asked the blessing. I was the winner of the $5 gift card donated by Len’s Pharmacy. Wheeee….

We had our monthly Board Meeting after the meal. Our guest was the chairman of the Senior Advisory Board and hubby who gave us some more info about Bingo. Seems to be quite the thing in Grant County now, with various organizations running games. Did you know that there are professional Bingo players? It’s more than a game to them! And it is definitely not just ‘Child’s Play!’ Me? I’ll take pinochle over most any other game. It comes between Bingo and Chess in the amount of thinking you have to do, which is just about all the thinking I can handle right now!

Finally got my long vest lining attached to the garment. I think I did everything wrong in constructing that item! I thought about entering it in the fair in the miscellaneous category — even if you do it wrong, it can come out right. I hope to wear it on Easter — yes, Easter. The first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. And if you had to get up at night this week,,you could plainly see that it was a full moon. Amazing how much light it reflects. And how dark it is when there is no reflection.

Family story: Mother left Antelope Lookout after supper intending to go to the house in Prairie City. She had a flat tire and couldn’t get the lug nuts off. So she and the dog started walking back to the Lookout in the dark with no moon. She said she knew she was off the road when she would stumble into the borrow pit. Moral? Always take a flashlight….

Rev. 21:23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.