Thursday

I thought winter had arrived this morning, for the first time in months the car was covered with ice first thing.   I went to the City after Kiwanis, and when I got back to Shawnee mid afternoon the temperature was 71.   I don't know how it gets from freezing to 71 in one day.   70 is considered a heat wave in Britain.

The Kiwanis speaker was a columnist in the local paper, she writes an amusing column, and it was an entertaining talk.

There was an AARP luncheon and Award Ceremony in the City, Phyllis and her husband Joe picked me up from the Senior Centre after Kiwanis, together with another Kiwanis member, who is also in the AARP.    I was jokingly making a big deal of the fact that we were leaving Shawnee at 9.30 for lunch in the City, 30/40 minutes away.  I know Americans eat early, but golly me.   I was glad I hadn't had to leave the house at 7.30 for the donuts.    We did get there early but it didn't matter, I had my toys in my bag.  Bit of crochet, and my C-Nook.

Anyway, it was all very nice and I enjoyed the day.   Phyllis, who is the local President, was given an award.

Basically this means that our local Shawnee AARP is the best in Oklahoma.    And it is very much due to Phyllis who works immensely hard in the community.

I hate my hair scraped back like that, but it was either that or looking a hot mess.  I need to get myself to a hairdresser.

I got home just after 3 and had a little nap then visited my friend who had been in the nursing home.  Two or three church members, together with some of the youth, moved her furniture on Wednesday evening, and this morning she left the nursing home.    She has a lot of boxes to unpack and sort out before she is straight, but it all went very well.

Would you say that was a deathbed picture.   I saw the christening pictures and they all looked very happy, including Charles and Camilla.  And the Queen looked very sprightly for 85.