Monday, March 30, 2026
Diary 2021
4/1/2021: April Fool’s Day.
Up before 6 AM for prayers and Bible; then cleaned house with half an eye on
cartoons. Shower. Made spaghetti. Waited with Kam at 8 AM. Spent most of the
day waiting for John to respond to the end of the chapter and eating too much.
At 1 PM waited for Kam. At 4 PM made supper and prayed rosary. Went in at 8 PM
to clean up. Weather cool all day. Kind of wondering if this would be the day
that I die, as I am wont to do now and then.
4/2/2021: Good Friday. Up a
little after 6 AM. Prayers, Bible [reading the Crucifixion accounts in the
Gospels]. Went out at 8 AM, but Susan called out to tell me Kameron was off
today. Ate far too much today. Still no word from John. Kam came out a little
after 12 and stayed until about 2 PM, when I started frying potatoes. Made fish
and squash and done a little after 5 PM. Went in to wash up about 7:30 PM.
About 20 minutes after 8 PM I ran across “The Passion of the Christ” and
settled down to watch it for the first time. Washed dishes during the
commercials, then watched the first 20 minutes when they encored it at 10 PM.
Then prayed the rosary, with a little extra fervor. Caught up the diary.
4/3/2021: Typical Saturday
(except it rained a little), and in the afternoon I made deviled eggs and an
Easter cake.
4/4/2021: Easter Sunday. Up
about 4:40 AM, shower, prayers, rosary, then out the door at 5:45 AM and Andy
drove me to church. Since I was a little late (comparatively speaking) I sat in
the very back instead of my usual seat. Home about 7:20 AM. Rested a while,
then about 8 AM went in and made pancakes, bacon, sausage, and eggs.
Kenny called me today to
wish me Happy Easter and we talked a bit, especially about Isabel and her
writing. Afterwards I sent him the file of “Harvest Festival”.
Had sausages in tortillas
and watched a lot of Simpsons and Family Guy reruns and caught some Wizard
of Oz.
S,A,&K went to a
Shanafelt Easter get-together about 3:30 PM (I had been invited but decided to
stay home). Susan popped over about 5 PM to check her E-bay, then they came
home about 7 PM, bringing me a plate (ham, etc.) and some deserts (cranberry
divinity pudding, an Easter cookie) and we had cake. Much of the evening
reading various “Tales of the Morgs”.
4/5/2021: Up way early (4:15
AM or so). Prayed, Bible. Caught up diary. Started wash at 7:30 AM, then waited
with Kam for bus at 8 AM. Put wash in dryer at 9 AM. Boiled eggs and made egg
salad. Ben Mankiewicz on GGACP. Spent some time reading the Morg short stories.
During lunch hour S&A helped pool guy set up pool cleaner. Kam home at 1 PM
and I made broccoli salad (what a chore!). At 4 PM made fish and couscous.
Called John about 5 PM: they are in Oklahoma City visiting Morgandy’s computer
friend and her family (John says the father is a Catholic and likes Tolkien so
we’d probably get along). Went in at 7 PM and cleaned up and made Kam’s
corndogs. He came in about 8 PM and hung around while S&A had their walk.
Oh, my! It’s pretty hot (in the 80’s). Rosary. Ate too many sausages in
tortillas all day. Still reading (almost through) “Vikram and the Vampire”.
4/6/2021: Up at 6:15 AM.
Prayers, Bible. Cartoons, then switched over and “Forbidden Planet” was
on TCM, which Kam and I were just discussing last night.
At 1 PM Kam brought home two
boxes of “food”.
For supper, sausages and
potatoes and cabbage. Washed dishes. Rosary. Ordered from HEB.
4/7/2021: Oh Lord. Summer is
upon us with all its humidity. It was freezing snow just a few weeks ago, and
now this. Prayers, Bible. Kam at 8 AM. Groceries arrived about 9:20 AM, on the
front porch, not the carport as I had asked, so it was a farther hump and up
and down stairs and no Diet Pepsi Cherry, either. Haroo.
Dogs barking at someone
trundling along on the other side of the creek. Kam home at 1 PM. Oh, my
painful right knee.
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