What I enjoyed this past week: Visiting with friends as I borrowed a coffee pot and card tables and chairs in preparation for yesterday’s brunch. Having coffee and forgotten cookies (70’s recipe to go with the 60’s percolator coffee pot) with my class Wednesday as they let their rough drafts for final papers “percolate” in their subconscious for a week and used the first hour of class to peer critique each other’s rough drafts. A necessities shopping trip Saturday with a big enough investment to call it my birthday present. And, the AAUW November brunch, here, Saturday.
The first people arrived at 9:30 and helped set up. I provided turkey and dressing casserole, and another friend brought sweet potatoes and cranberry/orange relish. A third friend brought a lovely veggie tray with dip and a fruit plate. Cookies from Aldi’s (think Sam’s Club) was the assortment accompanied by four kinds of coffee and made a nice, light dessert. Afterwards, we packed toiletries overnight kits for the Women’s Shelter and although I do not know what the “count” was, it took three shopping bags and two large plastic bags to carry all the “kits” to the delivery lady’s car. The last two guests who were “catching up” did not leave until nearly three, providing a “cool-down” for me. Sunday School this morning put last week in perspective and gave me hope for the week ahead.
What I am looking forward to this coming week: Finishing A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, and hopefully reviewing it as well. The tree man coming to remove a pear tree that has never produced a single pear and has lovely blossoms that I am sure are a nuisance to both back and side neighbors’ pools, and the same tree man trimming the broken branches of the Mungo Pines in the front yard. I spent a good forty minutes this afternoon harvesting the mini-pinecones and some pieces of greenery before the tree men take the broken limbs away. I will be the most popular supplier of pinecones for the coming Thanksgiving table turkeys and for the Christmas brandy snifters filled with mini-pinecones for the upcoming Christmas season. A birthday coffee for a girlfriend who will be 82 and who deserves a fete in her honor. It will be a small group–seven counting me–but the house is already clean, so why not kill two birds with one cleaning? Class Wednesday where final papers will be turned in and some time after the students leave, I’ll remain to get a head start on grading them. A friend’s retirement party as head librarian at the local library, and since our Third Tuesday book club has already given her a party, I don’t have to bake or bring anything!
It promises to be a good week!
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You have had so many fun social activities this last week. It’s the most important thing, I think. People.
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People and books–don’t forget books!
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You stay so busy!
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Keeps one young, dahling !
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What a lovely, congenial week, Rae:). You certainly are very busy in the nicest possible way – now, if you could just get a genie to pop in and mark and grade those papers…
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Unfortunately the papers never grade themselves.
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No, they don’t, do they? Neither do lesson evaluations, plans or schemes of work write themselves. I’m thinking of inventing an admin clone to do alllll that stuff for me!
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Put me first on your Wants to buy a grading clone list!
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