Another week at a time.

Has it been another week already?  We have mailed our tax return for last year and await a refund to be deposited.  We have attended the Knapp Medical Center volunteer awards ceremony where we both received 750 hours of service awards.  Evelyn is about 50 ahead of me.  That was the day that Evelyn began to come down with her first cold of the season.  Wednesday she was down in bed all day.  She was too ill to attend Lenten service and choir practice with me.  Bonny was back and kept us for more than our usual hour because she will be gone next week.  This means we have only one more practice before Easter unless we have one before Maundy Thursday.  We will practice after the Palm Sunday service.  Thursday I learned some information from the local pharmacist.  She needed something for her throat and cough, so I went for some cough syrup and Coricidin.  I learned that was a combination of acetaminophen and Benadryl.  We had both so she started taking them and some Siltussin DM cough syrup.  We hoped she would have an instant cure that never happened, of course.  We had been invited for supper by one of our Canadian neighbor’s, but she was still feeling too bad.  Friday began the same way for her.  Since we were having guests Saturday afternoon, I hired one of the park workers, Bhudda, to wash our porch.  He discovered a problem with the coating on our Texas room roof.  He will come back and finish that job Monday morning.  I went to work at the hospital as usual but without Evelyn.  She remained home to rest and dress for dinner with Don and Janice.  It was Janice’s birthday and we had planned an dinner outing with them.  They came and we went to Arturo’s.  Evelyn and I shared a Pablano pepper meal that was the most delicious we have ever had.  We returned here to play Phase 10 and have key lime pie, one of Janice’s favorites instead of cake.  They left around 9:30 and Evelyn hustled off to bed.  She slept through the night with minimal coughing.  We praise God for that.  She slept late Saturday and I worked on making reservations for our way to NC after Easter.  She got up and we hosted a welcome party for the new neighbors to our east.  It was a rather dull gathering, in my opinion, but we did get to know each other better.  After a walk in the balmy evening, we retired early.