9/14/2014

weekly update 9/14/2014

With a great start to the NFL season (and the Lions won last week, too!), I was motivated to hang that shower curtain. If I can't actually use it in the bathroom, why not put in the bedroom. So, here's what the blue room looks like now, with the curtain on the window, and my t-shirts being used as throw pillows! 

 

Book Club was on Monday. This month we were to read a “banned book”. Very interesting. some books that were reviewed were: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Jane Eyre, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Catcher in the Rye, James and the Giant Peach, Gone with the Wind. I read Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. It was a great discussion. We all agreed that thee books were not worth banning, and there was a debate on who should be allowed to ban books, and for which groups. Luckily, this little book club doesn't make the rules.

Monday was also to be the first evening of the Savannah series of movies that are to be shown at the condo club house. In a continuing effort to get members of this community to socialize and perhaps recognize one another, I wanted to show a movie that has been filmed in Savannah for each of 4 Monday evenings in September. It didn't work out well, since the tv died on Saturday. Forrest Gump just isn't going to be shown to our group, I guess, and I'm hoping the tv will be fixed for the showing of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil next Monday. It's interesting to watch a film and be able to point out familiar points of interest.

And all that while also trying to watch the men's finals (pretty boring, surpassed in non-excitement only by the women's finals the day before) and two MNF games. Busy busy.

Lectures are beginning again in Savannah as the hot summer comes to an end. I attended two this week. On Tuesday, I went to a very technical and rather uninteresting analysis of the Battle of Lake Champlain during the War of 1812 at the Visitors Center. This group does a series of 4 lectures each fall, and for the past 2 years they have been focused on this War. On Thursday, I was at the Jepson for a talk about the current exhibit of Art along the Savannah River. Works of watercolor, oils, photography and even cartography (the Peter Gordon view of Savannah in 1734) were shown and explained. Combining art and history - right up my alley.

Also on Thursday, I met with a group of friends for lunch at Huey's on the River. Not only was it nice to see all these ladies once again, but I had some of the best shrimp and grits I can remember.

 

But mostly all week, I waited for the new remote to come so that I could move back into my bedroom. The estimate shipment time was 3 to 5 business days. Each day that I would find my mailbox empty of any packages, I would regret that I was going to have to sleep in the guest room for another night. When I stopped at the Mail Center on Friday on my way to DH, and there was still no package, I was really pissed, since it would probably not be delivered on the weekend. Imagine my delight when I got home that evening, and there was a UPS box on my door step. It's here, and it works! Hooray! 

 

Saturday, I was on the schedule to op BC, but when I first looked at the clock, it was almost 10! I flew out of the condo and went to unlock the door. I was only a little late. I was also scheduled to open on Sunday, and I did better then. I did two tours, one on Saturday and another on Sunday. It was hot both days, but not too bad. I was more bothered that I was missing the Bills VICTORY over the Dolphins than I was by the heat. I would have happily spent the afternoon at Coach's, watching the game, but I've said I would do the Second Sunday Tour, and I like to keep my word. I'm going to have to miss next month's tour, so I wanted to be sure to help out this week.