volunteering and visiting

Friday was quite windy but mild. After exercise, Evelyn tried to talk with the park manager to get one of the treadmills repaired or replaced. She was gruff as usual and only agreed to put an “out of order” sign on it. Meanwhile I walked and then talked with one of the builders in the park about building a shelter for the bicycles. Evelyn doesn’t think it will look very good even though it is in a place extremely hidden in the back of our unit. I want to protect the bicycles. We will see when he comes to make a proposal. Evelyn watered the plants in the back for the first time in several days. We need rain. Janice told us yesterday that they haven’t had rain near Rio Hondo for two months. We have not had very much here either. We got ready for our shift at the hospital and had some turkey tetrazinni for lunch. It was still too windy to ride so we drove. Evelyn had little to do but the information lobby was a mad house with many families waiting to see people in ICU. We had one code blue and one that must have been close because there was no limit to how many could go to the waiting room. It was also interesting because there was only a skeleton staff at work. Even the volunteer department had no workers present, only volunteers. We finished at 5 and came home so Evelyn could rest. We left and went to Long John Silver for fish. One of the people we volunteer with let us use a 10% senior discount coupon. We ate only half of our order (we should have shared a meal) and brought the rest home. We went to visit with Tom and Diesta Crouch to see how their Christmas trip went. It was terrible: the weather and their health made it one they wouldn’t do again. We returned home after a nice visit; they are really wonderful people.