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.