Quiet Week

We did go to Cut N Shoot on Sunday along with our chicken legs. We spent the afternoon visiting and playing Mexican Train then switched to Pegs & Jokers. At dinnertime we turned on the oven to cook the chicken and warm up the brisket and pork that was left over. There were still a good many Boomers staying over because of the Martin Luther King holiday. It was way after 11 when we got home.

Monday was my bunco day. This is my group that has been together since October 2001. I remember that so clearly because Ted's two shooting buddies Howard and Burt came to Houston from Florida and they were all going to San Antonio for the National Skeet Shoot. We had been in our house less than two months. Howard's comment was "Donna just got here and already she's got a floating crap game going." They came the next year too and we had the big house for sale. A couple came to look just as they were all taking off for San Antonio and Howard said "they are going to buy your house." And they did. We were 5 months in a rental house and then moved into our present patio home.

Tuesday I didn't turn the TV on. I'm still mad that the media chose the two candidates that we had to choose between.

Wednesday Ted left for Beaumont and I had a day to myself. I cleaned the carpets in the office and our bedroom. The rest hardly ever get walked on. Ted hadn't been able to book a room in Beaumont and said he might just have to drive home. But he did get one so he was gone overnight.

Thursday I had two funerals to cook for. One was a lady at our church. The second was one of the young military men who had died in the Blackhawk helicopter crash on the grounds of A&M in Austin. He was married 4 years to a cousin of one of our fellow "funeral ladies." We are known as the St. Martha Society. The young lady has been staying here in The Woodlands since the tragedy. His Mass was at St. Ignatius in Spring, burial at Houston National Cemetery and the reception was at the home of our friend. After I did my food deliveries I stopped at Wal-Mart and was home the rest of the day.

Terry & Carol are due back today from Alabama. We are playing bunco for them tomorrow night but I'm not sure why. I thought they weren't going to be home. Sunday is Dining Out at Goose's Acres along the Waterway with the Newcomers and then Monday and Tuesday is an overnight bus trip to Coushatta Casino in Louisiana.

Until then, stay warm, travel safely and maybe we'll see you down the road.