Friday, Jan 17th

  A nice day in the valley.  The sun shone and we all took advantage of the day.  Tomorrow is the start of the long weekend here, MLK day on Monday.
  Marg did some laundry this morning.  Good day for it with the sun out to dry it.  I did a few maintenance things around the place, it seems there is always something.  Then mid-morning I went to pick up Kenny at; the garage down the road.  He noticed a noise in his front end and suspected a wheel bearing or assembly on his Explorer.  He did one back in Kansas at the Ford dealer that cost him $500, the garage here is $300, so he was happy.  Just before noon I took him back to pick it up.  It wasn't far, just up Ironwood at the Trail.  I stopped on the way back to get two lottery tickets, Mega Millions & Power Ball.  I told the clerk they sold me the wrong ones last week, I wanted to buy the lucky ones.  He just laughed and said, so did he.
  Lunch was some kind of jumbo salad and deviled eggs.  It was nice of her to dress up the eggs like that, knowing how much I like deviled eggs, kind of makes up for having salad.  LOL 
  In the afternoon Marg finished the laundry and had a few visitors.  Marg drove me to the pool room and checked the mail, none as usual.  It must be piling up back home.  I played some pool and for the most part my game was good today.  There were two tables going, so not bad considering all the things going on.  There were quite a few people in the pool today, so water aerobics will likely start soon.  That will be good as Marg really enjoys the pool time.
  We had happy at our place today, it was a small group, which was nice.  It was early today, 3 PM, to allow for people going to the sit down dinner in the hall.  We had tickets to as did about 90 or 100 other people.  It was the event I had consented to work at as an usher.  I had to go in a bit early to help get things set up, no heavy lifting there.  One of my jobs was filling water glasses on the table after the ice was in them, another was bringing out trays of cake to help the lady putting them on tables.  You know heavy responsibility stuff.  Once the doors opened there were two of us who escorted ladies to the table.  Some of the guys made comments, like what about me.  Funny guys!  Supper was pork chops, mashed potato, carrots, a piece of cake.  Patti to be funny at the Thursday coffee klatch announced the event, saying this year there would be apple sauce on the tables to go with the pork chops - for Dave.  Hah!
  Helped a bit with the clean up and then back to our place to post the pictures I took.