Easy Peasy Wednesday, The 10th Letter.....AND a Fire ALARM!

Normally we have Quad Wednesdays at our house. This was our second week of 'vacation' where we spent our time catching up on things around the house.

Next week we will be back to our normal activities with renewed strength and enthusiasm!

Louis Dean put all my fall storage tubs away today while I did Susie Homemaker activities.

We paused for a late lunch together and, after visiting my friend at Art and Sand , I set a pretty TRAY instead of a pretty TABLE for lunch!

I made an abundance of the Chicken Pasta Caesar Salad last night so we enjoyed it again today!

Louis Dean and I like to eat lunch and watch our all time favorite TV program - The Closer!

Yes, I know it's reruns now but we still love it!

I baked up this super good, super quick batch of muffins to add to a meal I was taking in to a friend this evening. I saved ONE mini muffin for me and ONE for Louis Dean!

After packing four for my friend I had a few left over so I took them to Reaoma. She was my next door neighbor for 17 years and is now in an assisted living apartment.

Every time we get together the one thing we always do is LAUGH!!!

The last time I took her to the movies - a Tuesday tradition at the Starplex where the movies are only $0.50 all day! - something happened that made us LAUGH until we were CRYING and we ALWAYS joke about it every single time we are together!!

Well, this evening I arrived as she was finishing her dinner in the dining room. We visited at the table with her friends for a few minutes and then the attendant came to escort Reaoma back to her apartment. I lingered a bit to chat a little more with another lady and as I was walking back to Reaoma's place, I noticed a resident who seemed to be lost. I asked her if I could help and she told me she thought she lived down the hall and that she needed to go out the back entrance to get to her apartment. Since I wanted to help, I walked with her and INNOCENTLY opened the exit when I set off the LOUDEST fire alarm ever!! Oh, dear!!! The other residents came to their doors to see WHO did this terrible thing!!! The lost lady looked at me with a mischievous smile and said, "I was afraid that was going to happen!" I was so embarrassed!!! The kind nurse came down and turned the alarm off. She showed the lost lady her room and then as we were walking up the hall together, I asked her about the door to the courtyard we were just passing. If I opened THAT door - would the alarm go off? She said only the doors that have a key pad by them would set off an alarm. As I looked down to the door at the end of the hall, (the one I had opened earlier!) I didn't SEE a key pad! She said, "Oh, I'm sorry! It's hidden behind that ficus tree! By the time I got back to Reaoma's room, I was hot and sweating! As I sat there with her cooling off, she said, "When I heard the alarm sounding, I wondered if that was YOU!"

Yup!!! I always make an impression every where I go!

Now I know which doors NOT open next time I visit!!

And now for the 10th letter! Only 5 more to go.....

This one is dated March 15, 1941 Harlingen, Texas and postmarked at 7 PM.

                                                                                                          

Dear Leila & Katin,

          Lately our letters have passed each other and we find we each owe letters. Both your letters came the first of last week. I'm always glad to hear from you. I'm sorry I'm such a poor correspondent - but I am - always have been - always will be. You remember how Uncle Matt used to write - "Weather cool today kill hogs - cotton crop a failure - plowed east part of farm last week - etc." - I'm very much like Uncle Matt when it comes to letter writing. Poor Uncle Newt - I wasn't at all surprised at what he did - marrying his nurse. That's like him. I was trying to remember if Uncle Bob is dead. Seems like I have the idea back in my head. Is he?

           Hope you can get the Neuberger house. It is cool looking and a nice looking house. I think you will enjoy the roses over there, if she doesn't move them. I remember she had some lovely ones. Did all of yours grow? Or can you tell yet? You could plant zinnias and marigolds in boxes and transplant them after you move. I haven't looked on the calendar to see when Easter comes. Noticed in the paper where continued cold prevails over most of the state. But I believe the papers state that we are to have an early spring. We would be glad about August to have some of this wintery weather I'm sure. Hope you are both feeling well by now - and don't have spring fever too badly.

I noticed in the Valley paper that Mrs. Sam Hammer from Palestine was a visitor to the Garden Club Convention which was held here this week. It was well attended. I believe the paper said between three and four hundred delegates were here. The Garden Clubs are perking up all over the country. That's one club I would enjoy. Flowers are so nice and kind. I'm sure the japonica and dogwood is about ready to bloom there now. I notice in teh Palestine Herald there are great preparations being made for the dogwood trails. And  I always feel like the bridal wreath should be included. I haven't found out yet if there is bridal wreath here. Hope there is. 

Well my writing spirit is departing. Love for both of you. Tell Tiger "hello."

                                                                                                   Eva