6/21/2020

Weekly Update 6/21/2020

When I updated last week, I believed it would be the last update I would do. But I’ve had responses from loyal readers, so perhaps I’ll continue for a while longer. 

I don’t know if many of you know this, but there’s a plot at BC that I find very intriguing. It’s not in the historic area, so it’s not seen often. When I first noticed it more than a year ago, I wondered about it. There are two headstones there. They are both obviously military because they have the generic US armed forces headstones. The names are not related to each other, nor are they related to the other names in the plot. No birth dates are inscribed, but death dates of 1936 and 1938 – so these are not combat deaths, and they’re not even at the same time. And, also, one soldier has Wisconsin, the other has Florida inscribed. How did these two men, not from the area, not related to the plot owners, and all alone, come to be buried in BC? And not only that, but someone had left flowers there. Someone cares about these two men. I asked, but no one seems to know the answer. The best guess is that some military group leaves the flowers. The flowers were changed, and poinsettias were added last December. I looked when I was at the cemetery for the Memorial Day service, but the Christmas flowers were still there. So, this week, I went to the Dollar Store and bought tiny flowers and metal star decorations, and went to place them at the plot. I have rather adopted Dessie and John. This is strange because I haven’t done much to decorate plots of people I DO know! And one reason I don’t want a burial for myself is so that no one will have to do that for me. But I’m so curious about these two soldiers – not only how they got to be buried here, but how old were they, did they have family somewhere, what is the story?

I still don’t have a washer/dryer. The one I’d ordered from Home Depot is to be delivered on Monday. I received an email about some of the things I would need to have for installation. I thought installation was free, but apparently, I need to have some parts ready. I went back and bought hoses, a plug, and a dryer vent. If I don’t need them,I can always return them, but since I’m nearly out of underwear and t-shirts, I don’t want to have it held up because I didn’t have what I needed. I took this picture to show how I definitely parked in the wrong part of the parking lot. Going to the Home Depot is like visiting a foreign country for me. No one is less PRO than I am. I should have been arrested.

Raccoons are bad enough. This week, they trapped a possum! And the damn cats continue to sleep in my chair and on my car. I do not like this at all!

I went back to DH this week. Not to give tours, but to take a tour and see how they have changed. I think I can do this, so I signed up to go back, starting in July. The tours start in Columbia Square instead of inside. That’s where background of the house and family is talked about. Docents and visitors all need to wear masks, and gloves to touch the banisters on the stairs. The size of the tours is much smaller – no more than 6 tourists at a time. The attic is now included in the tour, and I think everyone likes to see that. I shouldn’t have much trouble getting back into it. 

I’ve had visitors from MP. June, Barbara and Deborah came over a week ago on Wednesday for the weekly Rummikub games. We haven’t done that since med-March, and I thought it would be a nice chance for us to see my new place. Dave and John, neighbors from Building 5, came over for a drink and to see the new place on Tuesday this week. Kathie Arnold came in the morning, and Mike McCarthy stopped in during the afternoon. They are both from MP.