AN ORDINARILY PLEASANT DAY

It ended up being newsletter day. Once a month I am in the final stage of finishing up the monthly schedule of activities (not many events this month since I’m not planning anything), the jokes and info that administrators want me to pass on. I not only printed in the last newsletter that I was done planning events I mentioned it to several people who could and should do something. I did list one thing — a Halloween Day potluck. We have always had one and while I have set the day and time, I never do anything else to make it happen. That is my concession to event planning. As a result the calendar looks pretty empty. Celebration of Birthday party’s, the flu shot clinic and the potluck. It may take awhile before anyone misses any of these things. Time will tell.

I always finish up the newsletter as soon as I have interviewed someone for his or her profile story. October is about out new maintenance man and his wife. They seem like terrific people. They moved here from Texas. They had a few years where they hobnobbed with the wealthy of Texas society – as employees. They worked as estate managers for an heir to the King Estate, the largest ranch in Texas probably about the size of Washington State. He was an office assistant to the retired David Pace, founder of Pace Picante Sauce. And he worked for a famous Naval Seal who wrote Lone Survivor, about his experience of capture in Afghanistan. I reached out my hand to Robert Kennedy when he was stumping for his brother John’s run for the presidency. I was one of thousands. That’s it. That’s the most famous person I have ever been near. Can’t say met, as that didn’t happen.

I liked visiting with them and writing the story as their introduction meeting to us told us nothing about them. He is shy and the administration barely talks. It was a bomb – not the good kind.

I finished the day working on my message for the weekend. I’m actually getting excited. I’m getting afraid that I am so over prepared they may have to come and haul me off the stage. That might be entertaining.

Saturday I am off the three soccer games. Glad it’s going to be nice. Last weekend it was so windy the team going into the wind could hardly do a thing. That’s what I blame Morgan’s loss own and I’m sticking to that story.

Happy first day of fall! Out summer seems to have just been here for a couple of weeks so we would like more summer weather. We will see.