WHERE DID THE DAY GO

Have you ever just sat back and reflected on where the day went. I seem to be doing that even more than usual. I got up early to take Maria to her 9:00 appointment with her eye doctor, She is nearly blind and they often give her a shot right in the eyeball. It hurts just writing about it. I think I would rather have the colonoscopy. Come to think of it, I did. The needle goes right into the eyeball. Yikes!!!

Since the procedure takes 1 ½ - 2 hours I came back to hang out with the coffee klatch. It is still a klatch when men are there because for a while there were only two men? All I really wanted to know was what was wrong with the garage door. When I pulled up to run my card over the sensor to let me in there was a note that read: “Door broken, use the back door.” When we opened the doors with a remote button in our cars that worked well. But now the front door opens with a swipe card and the back door opens when you run over the trigger cord. If I wanted to open it from the outside I would have to park my car with part of it sticking into the street (door is very near the street) use my key to get in through the pedestrian door, push the button to open the garage door, wait for it to get to the top so I can lock it in position. Back to the car, get in start it and drive in. Once inside I need to get out of the car, release the lock so the door will come down.

Finally I must get down to my spot and fight with getting my car turned around and into its angled spot striped the opposite direction. All of this is more work that I typically do in a whole day. See, it’s not easy following weird directions.

When Rocky came through the coffee room He asked what happened to the door. At that point I had only heard a rumor — the bread truck backed into the door. Rocky went out to have a look. Meanwhile, back at the coffee ranch, the two ladies who let the bread man
In returned. Small problem. He was so close to the door that the bottom lip of the door struck the truck bumper. As soon as it hit, the ladies tried to put the door back up. Now that lip caught under the bumper and stripped the motor. Rocky was mad and determined to resolve it immediately. After a somewhat lengthy argument with the food bank they settled and agreed it was their drivers fault. And everyone lived happily ever after.

Now that insurance companies are involved we will be without the door for 7-10 days while each outfit investigates, we argue some more, they refuse to pay, more arguments and finally they try to pay for a quarter of the costs. They won’t get away with that with Rocky. He’ll take the money out of someone’s hide if necessary.

After this excitement, I picked up Maria and brought her back. She was exhausted, probably slept most of the day. I grabbed a quick lunch, picked away at the newsletter for May and went to Bible study. Increasingly there is very little of the Bible that gets studied. lots of talk and many, many stories. That’s usually OK, but I wanted to lay down about half way through. So it was back to my apartment, ate a light snack and fell asleep in my recliner. As usual, my feet went to sleep. I must remember to lie on the sofa. That way my feet stay awake.