Thursday, September 18, 2014

September 18, 2014---Elks Lodge to County Fairgrounds, Antioch, California


During the night we had rain.  It was so minimal it wasn’t  measurable, even by Bill’s guage for measuring the distance between rain drops.  The only thing it accomplished was making the dust on the cars more noticable than before.  This area is in a terrible drought and needs rain desparately.  Mother Nature shouldn’t tease like that!

Lori, Tucker, and Maddie came to get me this morning.  We went to their apartment.  Lori started a new weaving class.  She had one of her portable looms warped and ready to begin a project.  Several of her “weaver friends” didn’t show up for the class and I know she was disappointed about that.  It was a nice social group last year, but I hope she will enjoy her weaving time, anyway.

The pups and I watched an English mystery program while she was gone.

Tonight we went to a barbecue place in Pleasant Hill.  The food was good and we had a lot of fun talking, as we always do.  Afterwards, we lined up on the sidewalk for a group picture.  Lori had a new remote gizmo for her phone so we could get everyone in the picture.  JP propped her phone up on Mario’s car and Lori clicked the camera remotely.  He looked at the results and said we needed to move to the right.

Lori’s account of it to her siblings said it all... “It was pretty funny.  A typical Dane moment.  We were using a remote on my phone and JP had us playing seagull (shuffling to the right) until we were all in the photo.  It would have been a hilarious video to watch all of us shuffling.”
Lori, Bill, Raymonda, Mario, Natalia, JP, and Rosy.

Nobody had to say “smile.”  We were all having so much fun.

We said our goodbyes, knowing we won’t be together again for awhile.  Tomorrow, several of us go different directions.

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