St. Luke Living Center correspondent
Bakers were in the kitchen Friday morning and made cookies with always-popular chocolate chips and another batch, substituting pecans for chips.
Bingo players were in our large dining room in the afternoon with Elsie Reiswig and Bill Schimpf assisting with the always-popular games of letters and numbers.
The first day of the month means changing room and hall activity wall calendars. With Betty’s help, we got that task done Saturday afternoon.
The guest minister Sunday afternoon was the Reverend Josh Wesner of Emmanuel Baptist Church who not only brought his guitar sidekick, but one of his young daughters as well.
Probably very few of us stayed in front of a television Sunday evening to watch the exciting finish of the Super Bowl game, but we thoroughly enjoyed our pre-game party. The smorgasbord included hors d’oeuvres on a pick, chips and salsa, olives, pineapple chunks, cookies, and “beer” of the root variety.
Punxsutawney Phil probably dozed off early that evening in order to be up at sunrise Monday to see his shadow. Although not totally pleased with the thought of six more weeks of winter, we prettied-up forenoon anyway. Many played kick ball and catch-it-if-you-can in the afternoon before eating from bags full of freshly popped corn, having no ground hog readily available.
Resident council touched on many topics when we met Tuesday morning. Our 15 interested residents were joined by Sue and Lori Smithhart, who was introduced as the new activity director/social services designee. Debbie Craig joined the group a little later.
We discussed our upcoming valentine family and friends’ potluck meal, the day change for weekly rosary and communion, heard a short report on the auxiliary dinner and meeting with five of us attending, and recognized Agnes Bina as a former president of the philanthropic organization.
The “better dining experience” again was discussed as part of an ongoing project.
Debbie spoke to the group of her decision to step down from her position at the living center. A new director soon will be in place.
That afternoon we worked on two small projects. Some of us traced and cutout large cupids from red construction paper to insert into red baskets of white carnations for use on tables now and for our potluck. Others pinked the edges of a dozen photos of roses, taken from an outdated calendar. We used these pictures and various sizes of red hearts we manufactured to create a “say it with roses” corkboard display.
Lois Winter sang hymns with us Thursday morning, as she played the piano accompaniment.
Ken Vinduska picked a baggie full of morning glory seeds from last season’s vines on the west side of our facility. Perhaps gardener Amelia had something to do with this.
Scarcely needing a jacket, residents filled our white bus in the afternoon for an outing with newly hired chauffeur Lori Smithhart. Lori isn’t new to driving and maneuvered the vehicle like a pro.
We drove to Marion County Lake on the way to tour Florence. We drove past the Harvey House Museum, the brick Catholic church, old rock homes and school, the blue swimmer-less pool, and back home around the southwest side of the lake. And did we ever spot wildlife! Hundreds of geese were congregated on remaining islands of ice. Then there were less wild but very noisy adorable pups barking off their bobbed-tails from behind their front yard, wired fence.