UNCOMMON COMMONS pictures Part 6

One more area in the other building before we return to my building: the commons! Everything that involves a large group happens here. There is a monthly meeting of residents where we celebrate the birthdays of the month and get chastised for things we are screwing up: All garbage must be in plastic tie bags. There is no

smoking in the buildings. The public areas will be re-carpeted next week. Please take your hall decorations into your apartments.After the announcement there is laughter, scoffing and/or demands for more information or why. Also, all potlucks and meals are here as well as coffee and snacks available 9-4 Monday to Friday and of course bingo.

This is the morning coffee table piled with snacks. It is hard not to take something, especially

The bread table is a result of a couple going to the war front and fighting for our share of free bread. Since my heart attack I consider myself wounded in action and have not returned to Bread Wars. I have been replaced at the front. Yeah! Residents had already taken a rather large amount of bread before I took the picture. The bread comes Wednesday and most is gone by Friday.if one of the ladies baked something fresh. Most snacks come from the area food bank. They deliver bread and sweets every week. You can see the coffee pot in the back group and the open lighted area behind is the kitchen. In addition to coffee there is tea and hot chocolate. To the right of the snacks is our congregating table. You can only see a chair or two and a corner of the table. In reality the table only seats five, but there have been up to twelve squeezed near the table. Most mornings are a lot of fun and laughter.

A hall photo is weird, I know. It is taken from the entrance to the poolroom. To the right is the commons and the left is the elevator. There are doors on the left side of the hall that lead to restrooms and to the right is the kitchen. Heading left down the hallway takes you back to the main entrance past the mailboxes.

The last photo is a bit of space filler, as I didn’t want to move back to my building until the next blog. This staircase is beautiful at Christmas with greenery, ribbons and lights. In fact, the entire building is beautifully decorated. I know, it takes using your imagination.

I think I’ll leave this as is and some my cutting remarks for the next edition. Unusual!