After Valentine's supper/program

78º at 11:30 Thursday morning.  Phyllis was busy all day yesterday getting prepared for the Valentines supper and show.  (Click on photos to enlarge)

By vote of the residents over the last week or so, our
neighbors Harold & LaRhoda Neher were voted to be and crowned as King and Queen for 2018

Being crowned

Posing as Royalty

Something around 160 people were anxiously waiting in the lobby area and we finally opened the door about 5:34 pm when Juan had finally showed up with his camera.  He took photos of each couple as they entered.  Phyllis checked the people off the list according to the ticket numbers they held and had me give them small papers with "fish" or 'beef" for them to place on the table for the servers.   I then had them pose for the camera in front of a background put on the wall.  This was not always an easy task---if you have ever told older people what to do, you may know how that goes.  Then sisters Judy and Maxine helped the people to there seats - one group of 8 or so insisted on being together and they were at the back of the hall, which proved to be good.  We had about an hour and 15 minute program by Ed Couch - Elsa High School kids 

and that table, heavily imbibing adult beverages before they got there and all during the evening, talked - and not quietly - during the entire music program.  They had no qualms about carrying on their own thing, not listening themselves so assumed that no one around them wanted to hear either.

I shall never ever be in a group with this bunch again.
(who gather at one of their RV's every afternoon to drink) 

Because this was Ash Wednesday and many Catholics indicated they would not attend if fish was not served, the caterers broke their rule of not serving fish (harder to prepare ahead, drive the 45 minutes to location and keep in good condition).  They had offered beef and fish and it was carried out well.  Both meals were good.  My fish was great and Phyllis couldn't finish the ample portion of beef, so I had to help out with that.

I made video of about 45 minutes of the music.  Can't upload it to the blog, but may get it on my You-Tube channel.

Phyllis had the Sew & Share ladies do their drawing for quilts
that had been in raffle for some time.

A winner of a blanket

A winner of a blanket

A winner of a blanket

Dan won the door prize for the evening.

Nearly time to go down to the hall with the pickup to haul the tote boxes back to the storage shed for the Sew & Share ladies.

GROANER’S CORNER:((  Have you heard about the guys who drove their pickup truck into a lumberyard? One of them walked in the office and said, "We need some four-by-twos."  "You mean two-by-fours, don't you?" the clerk said.  "Let me go check," replied the man, and he went back to the truck.  "Yeah, I meant two-by-fours," he said, returning a few moments later. "Alright. How long do you need them?"  The customer paused for a minute to think and then finally said, "I'd better go check."  After awhile he returned to the office and said, "A long time. We're building a house."
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Summer vacation was over and the teacher asked Little Johnny about his family trip. "We visited my grandmother in Minneapolis, Minnesota." The teacher asked, "Good, can you tell the class how you spell that?"  Little Johnny thought for a few seconds and said, "Actually, we went to Ohio."

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More later, Lynn