Driving

We started the day at our 8:00 a.m. volunteer meeting. One of the other couples was unlucky enough to have today as their day off--some day off! After the meeting, Ken went to check out the red Dodge minivan he would use to drive some of the residents to the doctor.

The rest of us, plus some other helpers, stuffed weekend backpacks for schoolkids on food assistance programs. In each backpack we put two individual servings of cereal, two small cartons of milk, some cans of ravioli and beans and corn, some pudding, and some canned fruit. The idea is to provide these kids with something to eat over the weekend. We packed 50 backpacks for delivery to a local school. We had a real assembly line going, and everyone had fun.

One of the residents scheduled for Ken's van had fallen during the night, and the EMTs were called out to assist him, so Ken ended up with two passengers. He drove them to a doctor's office near the new hospital. When the woman was finished with her appointment, the man was still in the waiting room, so Ken drove the woman home and went back to pick up the man. Fortunately, this is a small town, so the drives weren't very long. By the time he and his second passenger returned, they nearly missed lunchtime.

Ken and I ate at home and then went for our "morning" walk (by now it was 1:00 p.m.). We decided to try again to get propane, but we unfortunately forgot that the propane department was closed from 1:00 to 2:00 for lunch. Sigh.

Then we spent some time culling our Grand Tetons photos before going back to the Red Barn a third time at 2:30 p.m. Third time was a charm, so now we have a full propane bottle backup.

We were due for our evening on-call assignment at 5:00 p.m., so we got everything ready to finish fixing dinner when we had a break. We went back to clean up the dining room and then again at 9:00 p.m. to close up for the day.

We managed to get in a round of Rummikub in the afternoon and another in the evening. I won the afternoon round with 4 points to add to the 4 I had won the night before. In the evening, Ken got his revenge: he won the third round of the series and caught me with 14 points.