I think I can just about remember back to Thursday. Our Kiwanis' speaker was the City Manager, and his main topic was the dispute going on at the moment between the four Indian Tribes in Shawnee, and the City.
Indians don't pay any Federal or state taxes (state taxes are like VAT, 8.5% paid on purchases, which finances all the City's services) but the Tribes run retail outlets, they have a supermarket I like on the way to Tecumseh, and the City managers are hacked off - with some justification it seems to me - because the state tax, which white people like myself have to pay, isn't being passed on to the City. There are angry confrontations, and threats of law suits.
On Friday I was at the hospital in the morning, but the patient numbers were right down, so it didn't take me long to go round. Chaplain Bill and his wife had gone to Iowa, they have just sold their house there and were moving the last of their possessions to Shawnee.
On Friday evening I had dinner with Bruce and Rosalyn at a Mexican restaurant in Tecumseh, and it was very pleasant. I ordered shrimp faites (I haven't spelled that right) but didn't bother with the faites, I can't be doing with rolling the food up in a tortilla, I prefer to pick up a knife and fork and eat my rice, beans, sour cream, guacamole, salsa and shrimp, like a regular meal.
I have been out for a little shopping today, and did some things around the house, but I am on the last lap of a big crocheting project, so have been pressing on with that.
On the subject of shopping - I was standing in line at the checkout, and saw last week's copy of the Globe, the one about the Coronation, so I was reading it while I waited. And the Coronation of William and Kate is going to be June 2015 (does Justin know?) And the Queen hopes to attend, but she might not, because she has heart trouble and is crippled with arthritis, don't you know. So she asked William and Kate to visit her tomb - on the same day - if she's not there.
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