Another Full Day

We started the morning by arriving at the CARE Center at 6:45 a.m. to complete our on-call duties. When we were relieved by the 8:30 kitchen team's arrival, we took our walk and then decided to get some shopping done.

First we stopped at West RV and picked up some replacement halogen bulbs and an extra awning wand. Next we stopped at Valero for diesel and then the Ace Hardware store. We went on to Walmart where Ken got a replacement for his lost Swiss Army knife and we picked up an HDMI cable so we could look at our photos from the laptop on the TV. Then on to Lowe's for some white coax cable (we saw another camper using it and noticed how well it stands out on the ground, so there's less danger of tripping over it).

While we were out, we got a call from the CARE Center with an assignment to take one of the residents, to the hospital for a checkup after a fall. Oh, no! We were on the driver availability list and forgot to tell the coordinator that we were leaving the grounds. He said he'd find someone else (thanks, Brad!).

We got home in time for the noon meal, which was cranberry chicken. I'd had my doubts when I saw Bobbi starting to prepare the chicken in the morning. The first thing she added was French dressing. It tasted good and the chicken was moist. We sat with a couple from the park. It turned out that he had worked for aerospace companies in SoCal, so he and Ken had something to talk about.

We had a brief break before arriving at 2:30 p.m. to start our kitchen duty. On Monday and Tuesday evenings, the volunteers prepare the evening meal. The menu called for fruit plate, and Ken turned out a beautiful platter of fruit. We also made brown rice to serve with some leftover sweet and sour pork and banana pudding (regular and sugar free). I mixed up some vanilla yogurt (again, regular and sugar free) to go with the fruit. Shirley offered to help with the serving, and everything went well, except that towards the end, we started to run out of fruit, so we had to rush some more fruit prep. Everyone ended up happy, and all the food was gone, making it easier to clean up.

When we left the CARE Center after cleaning up, setting out breakfast, and starting the kitchen laundry, it was after 6:30 p.m. and we were tuckered out. We ate a light supper and walked and then decided to watch another Masterpiece Mystery episode (we're several episodes behind on the TIVO).
We'll be getting up in the morning to show up for our 8:30 kitchen duty, so we tried to get to bed at a reasonable hour.