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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
SENIORS
GRANT COUNTY SENIORS
Prairie City
Seniors
Rose Coombs
We encountered a mystery
on arriving at the hall today.
There is an orange square
about 3 feet across in front of
the building by the power pole.
What in the world? None of us
has a clue. We are fairly sure
it is not a crop circle as there
are no crops there... There is a
plant growing at the bottom of
the cement ramp that has some
interesting flowers on it. There
are two weeds next to it, but
this one is new to us. If you
know what it is, tell us.
Today was the Asian meal
day. We had spring rolls (don’t
know if I ever had any of those
before — they are good), fried
rice, egg flower soup, and
chocolate pudding pie for des-
sert. Tom and Chris served the
drinks of water, coffee, milk,
lemonade, and a juice. I had
to get a packet of sugar to
put in the lemonade, as it had
none listed on the ingredients.
Ahem. It was organic, too.
Anyhow, the meal did what it
was supposed to do — fill us
up while we had good con-
versations around the tables.
Gwynne, Carla, Mary, and
Carlos made the home deliver-
ies. Ginger led the flag salute,
and Tom asked the blessing.
Tom’s word for the day:
“A mule dressed in a tuxedo
is still a mule.” Okey-dokey.
Birthdays of note included
Henri Nestle, Herbert Hoover,
Jack Haley (the Tin Man), and
Jimmy Dean. This Mr. Nestle
invented baby formula during
WWI.
The book on the history of
Wales has yielded two new
words. The first is distrained.
No, it doesn’t mean that you
were thrown off the train. It
refers to something that hap-
pened a lot in Wales, appar-
ently. Webster’s says it means
to seize and hold property
for a debt. The second word
is vaticinate. It just means
to prophesy. Seems that the
Welsh bards had a lot of
poems that said a time would
come when the country would
be restored to Welsh rule. The
biggest problem with that hap-
pening was that the individ-
ual tribal leaders couldn’t get
along long enough to coop-
erate in a united attack on
any of the countries that con-
quered them! Does that sound
familiar?
I get a lot of catalogs.
One had this T-shirt: Rules of
Adjective Order — 1. Num-
ber 2. Opinion 3. Size 4. Age
5. Shape 6. Color 7. Origin 8.
Material 9. Purpose. Did you
know that there was such a
rule? I certainly don’t remem-
ber anything like that being
mentioned in high school
English class. (Of course, that
was over 60 years ago, so I
may have forgotten...) Any-
way, now you know.
I dug up the volunteer
potato and used four of the
tubers in a potato salad. That
plant yielded 18 good-sized
spuds and a lot of little ones.
What would you have to do to
keep those little ones to plant
next spring? Or shall I just
wait until the garden is all har-
vested and throw them out to
“volunteer” next year? And I
don’t think that the plant that
is coming up in the beet patch
is a cucumber. The fruit is yel-
low and fuzzy. Hmmm.
Matthew 7:20 Thus by their
fruit you will recognize them.
John Day
Seniors
Elsie Huskey
Our first lunch date was
on Monday, Aug. 8: Dar-
lene Nodine and David Pasko
were at the desk to greet all
19 in-house diners, get them
signed in and their names in
the daily drawings. Of course,
lots of chatter was on the table
as well. Thank you, David, for
filling in on short notice and
bringing smiles and chitchat
as well. All is enjoyed.
Carol Roe led the flag
salute and Buzz Gilmore
asked the blessing. Our serv-
ers were from the Lutheran
Church, and they were Bob-
bie and Buzz Gilmore and
other members of their family.
Thanks to all four of you for
helping us out today. It is great
to see people and know they
are OK and share smiles and
friendship with them as well.
Mike and Pattie Davis and
Bonnie and Francis Kocis
delivered 52 meals and 39 fro-
zen meals to our community
today before lunchtime, which
brought us to 117 meals served
today. Thanks to all our driv-
ers for helping our community
with this time-consuming ser-
vice. Seven meals were taken
out as well. Thanks go to Shay
and Kim in the kitchen for put-
ting together all these meals. It
takes a lot of preparation, box-
ing and serving and cleaning
up to make all this food. Both
Shay and Kim most usually
have smiles and chatter to all
of us during the day. The meal
today was creamed turkey
over biscuits, salad, and blue-
berry hand pies. I had never
heard of hand pies before. I
am sure learning a lot from
our kitchen. This meal was
very tasty, and those pies were
super BIG, too!
Darlene mentioned that
Wednesday was the free day
at the fair. That was a good
time for many to go without
so much expense.
Also mentioned was the
suggestion box by the coat
rack at the east side of the
room. Please leave us a note
if you have anything to say
about the way we organize
and run our center. There are
pencils and paper in the slot
on the side of the suggestion
box. It is everyone’s center, so
we want everyone to be happy
and be able to compromise if
needed.
Bobbie Gilmore won the
Len’s card and Bonnie Kocis
won the free meal today. Con-
grats, you two.
Thursday, Aug. 11, finds
Darlene Nodine and Judy
Thomas at the desk to greet
the 14 in-house diners and be
sure they were signed in and
their names were in the draw-
ing for today. Fifteen lunches
were taken out today.
Billy Bullard led our flag
salute today and Patti Davis
asked the blessing. Our server
was from the Cornerstone
Church. Patty Davis did a
great job and was very cheer-
ful and alert to everyone’s
needs. We dined on pan-fried
chicken, cottage fries, and
coleslaw, and for dessert we
had the biggest chocolate chip
cookie. Thanks, Kim. Thank
you, Patti, for your attentive-
ness to all of us; your smiles
were great too. It was nice
to have your husband, Mike,
join us as well. Mike was very
cheerful and kept smiles going
at the table.
Mike and Patti Davis, Peg
Molnar, and Michael Shock-
ley delivered 52 fresh meals
before lunchtime today.
Thanks to all you drivers men-
tioned here for your great
service, so welcome to our
community.
Ninety-one meals total
were served up today by
Shay and Kim in our kitchen.
Thanks again to our kitchen
staff, Kim and Shay.
Darlene won the Thriftway
card and Ray Cox won the
free meal. Congratulations to
both of you.
We are so grateful for all
our volunteers; we need each
one of you to make each meal
a success to in-house din-
ers and those that receive our
delivered meals. Volunteers
are asked to sign a sheet on
a clipboard for their time and
service so our center can get
credit for you. We are rated by
who does what and how much
time you served. Thanks for
helping us this way.
Linda Stoltz, our librarian,
would like volunteers to help
with some flower arrange-
ments for our center. She
is setting a date of Aug. 25,
which is Thursday after our
lunch. Linda has done a great
job with our library and keep-
ing the whole building pleas-
ing to the eye. Thank you,
Linda, for your time spent,
and love of what you do to
share with all who enter our
building. The date is subject to
change so if you are interested
in helping, watch this space
and/or see Darlene or Elsie for
more information.
By the time you read this,
the fair may be over, so I hope
and pray that everyone kept
safe and hydrated and as cool
as possible.
Just to let you all know
how much we all enjoy get-
ting together for lunch and
visiting with other folks. We
laugh, talk, share, get to know
others. It is just great to have
this opportunity and our center
provides it. We have some that
keep us in stitches, so to speak,
and some who tease and some
who share their experiences
over time. We can learn from
other people’s experiences.
I know I do. It is so reward-
ing to be able to meet together
this way. Let’s keep our center
active and healthy by volun-
teering and attending lunches.
Psalms 19:1-6 The heav-
ens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of
His hands. Day after day they
pour forth speech; night after
night they reveal knowledge.
They have no speech; they use
no words; no sound is heard
from them. Yet their voice
goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the
world. In the heavens, God
has pitched a tent for the sun.
It is like a bridegroom com-
ing out of his chamber, like a
champion rejoicing to run his
course. It rises at one end of
the heavens and makes its cir-
cuit to the other; nothing is
deprived of its warmth.
Monument
Seniors
Soo Yukawa
Terry Cade and Carrie
Jewell, our awesome cooks,
made us tacos with all the fix-
ings, that included fresh let-
tuce, tomatoes, onions, jalape-
nos, sour cream, cheese, salsa,
and chips. Yes, we had a won-
derful meal. I liked to pile on
the lettuce and salsa. Hold the
sour cream and cheese for me,
no thank you. We thank our
cooks for their hard work and
we are ever so grateful.
Our greeters at the table
were Bob Cockrell, Sue Cav-
ender, and Judy Harris. Bob
checked in the guests, col-
lected and counted up the
money, and led us in the flag
salute. Judy Harris made the
announcements and yours
truly prayed the blessing over
our meal.
Our Grant County senior
center adviser, Angie, is retir-
ing and we were introduced to
Misty Palmer. She will be tak-
ing over for Angie on Mon-
day, Aug. 22. We thank Angie
for her service.
So, I have all the details of
the upcoming event. The fifth
annual Monument Buckaroo
Festival and Harvest Auction
will be Sept. 24, 2022. The
schedule will be as follows:
At noon, the 4-H food
booth will open and they will
be serving tacos. Bidders reg-
istration opens for the live
and silent auctions. At 1 p.m.,
there will be live music, horse-
shoes, cornhole, rock painting,
face painting, and games for
kids with prizes.
The back lawn of the Mon-
ument Senior Center will have
covered seating. The silent
auction opens for bidding in
the senior center library. Be
sure to get your bidder num-
ber. Live auction begins on the
back deck at 3 p.m.
The primary event, the
fresh salmon and elk dinner
with all the trimmings, will be
from 5 to 7 p.m. Prices are $20
per adult or $35 per couple.
Children ages 6-12 are $7.50
and under 6 are free.
The dessert auction and
bidding will begin at 6 p.m.
and the bidding for the silent
auction will close.
The late Jimmy Cole is our
honorary grand marshal, gone
but not forgotten. All the pro-
ceeds will benefit the Mon-
ument Senior Center. If you
have any questions, please
contact Judy Harris at 541-
934-2244. Hope you all make
it to this fabulous event!
I can’t believe that sum-
mer is almost over! Today, a
friend told me that the days are
already starting to get shorter.
We now have 20 minutes less
of daylight, as if we were in
the month of April. Honestly,
I look forward to the fall and
winter. I love it. I love see-
ing the changes in the foliage
and the air just being brisk. I
like winter clothes, too. Ha. I
just hope that winter does not
come sooner than it is sup-
posed to.
My goats have been eating
down a field. I will soon have
to move them again. They
look fat. Belle, Leah, Choco,
and Billy still remember me
and come running over when-
ever I go down to see them.
They cry and look at me as if
to say, “Are you going to take
me home?”
Psalms 27:4 One thing
have I desired of the LORD,
that I will seek after, that I
may dwell in the House of the
LORD all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of the
LORD, and to inquire in His
temple.
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