St. Luke Living Center correspondent
We began making butterscotch-oatmeal cookies Friday morning with a very small crew — three of us! But by project’s end, the group around the tables had grown to 11, with “oodles” in the wings. We like to think the large crowd is a credit to our baking skills.
Elsie Reiswig was the bingo caller that afternoon, ably assisted by our man Friday, Bill Schimpf. It was nice to have Norma Riggs be part of the group, also.
During the afternoon the “sound of music” — not the Trapp, but the Wood family — could be heard throughout the halls. Children of all ages were here over the long weekend visiting with Earl and each other.
Sightings in the halls that afternoon were Edmund’s grandchildren, Clinton and Kayla, their mother, Kimbra, and cousin, McKenzee Remmers, plus the two Kroupa dogs, Hank, a great Pyrenees and a much smaller Milo, a long-haired Chihuahua.
Large plates of delicious, decorated sugar cookies were shared Monday with everyone by the Viets family in celebration of Don’s 84th birthday.
We spent a portion of Tuesday morning participating in a 12-point quiz matching professions with equipment used in that job. We also shared information about our actual occupations and what would have been our “dream” job — two singers, a photographer, a dancer, two nurses, a teacher, and a librarian. Polly Ferrell stopped in to share her story, too.
As we finished our book that afternoon, Lassie had been lovingly nursed and “slowly blossomed back into the dog she had once been.” The collie and the Cavacloughs were happily living on the duke’s estate and Lassie once again kept her four o’clock date with young Joe at the school gate. Lassie had come home.
Later that day, quite unexpectedly, special treats of jitterbugs of various flavors from the Big Scoop were provided to residents and staff by Betty Thompson and her daughter, Melody. Very yummy!
The outing-takers and big white van headed east Thursday afternoon past the large field of sunflowers on K-256 and slowed to watch the small flock of ducks in the north right of way. Other sightings were the goats, sheep, llamas, and alpaca on the Nelson farm on 250th, Rockin’ J Ranch on Bluestem Road, many large piles of silage and the Lincolnville elevator on the way home.