Saturday, March 14th

A nice day in the valley, no rain and sunshine.  Not certain how warm it got, but this was the kind of day we signed on for.
  We took it kind of casual, sitting around in PJ's.  It turned out to be a bad choice for today as there were people stopping by, something I cannot recall happening before.  One of them was here to see if I would golf on Monday at the Raven.  Apparently they have a reservation and were looking for a 4th player.  In the past the is one fellow here who has tried to interest me, but it is an upper end course both in terms of difficulty and green fees.  They apparently have tee times at $60 [which is equivalent to $80 for me], which is about half of some of the prices I have heard and much less than even bargain rates I have heard.  At some point I must have weakened and agreed to play.  Two of the guys are very good golfers while the other fellow is often at about my level although he has the odd hot streak where he scores much better.  Should be interesting.
  Shortly after we got dressed Marg had to go out with Patti to pick up snacks for the entertainment night this evening.  A separate group are putting the evening together and Marg's group are providing some funding as well as table snacks.  I went out back and worked on packing some stuff up in the shed so that everything is not last minute.  From her shopping trip she said there were lots of shortages in the stores they visited: no toilet paper, very little tissue; no hand sanitizer, very little frozen food or meat.  I guess now people have started to buy groceries to last a long time.  I guess the hysteria continues to spread.

  When Marg got home we had a bite of lunch then had a bit of quiet time.  At 1:30 I had to go to the hall and help with set up for the evening entertainment while she had to go at 2 to set out the table snacks. Some time ago they changed the way they do snacks to use only prepackaged individual serving ones.  With this virus thing that turned out to be a very wise decision.  The people attending events have been very positive about this change.  It took a while, but things were looking pretty well complete when we left.
  A bit more quiet time before supper.  We ate in tonight, we still have lots of food in the house.  Shortly after supper we went down to the clubhouse.  It was a fun night.  There was a bar set up and they had so much donated liquor that drinks were free and served by waitresses.  The entertainment was a line dancing demonstration, a skit, a lip sync act, a comedy act and a live blue grass group.  The MC told a few jokes to keep things moving.

  Yous truly was the one billed as a comedy act.told about a half dozen funny stories that I cleaned up for this group and managed to get a few laughs.  I think it was about 20 minutes or so.  There was recorded music with dancing between acts and for a period when the last act completed.  All in all a fun night.that will likely put some cash in the organizations coffers.






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