3/19/2023

 

Weekly Update 3/19/2023

I’m continuing to sort and alphabetize old employee records at City Hall. It’s taking much longer than it should because I read a lot of the stuff. Like, who was disciplined and for what, what the racial make up is for police and fire personnel as opposed to labors and “scavengers” (trash collectors) – no surprises there. But I was astounded to read as the final entry on a card for a policeman “killed in the line of duty” written in red. I googled it and found that he died after being shot on Victory Drive by an escaped murderer in 1976. How awful! Most of the entries are more mundane than that.  

I haven’t been been to a Wednesday happy hour with the Old Ladies group in quite a while, and I had time to go this week. I drove out to Wilmington Island and joined them. Instead of my usual white wine, I had a Guinness.

Thursday I led TLC book club in a discussion of The Library Book by Susan Olsen. I was very nervous, but it went well. A large part of the reason it was not too difficult is that the people in the group were, for the most part, friends that I know from book clubs I’ve attended through the years. I really liked reading the book again. It’s one of my favorites. I’m not in hurry to volunteer to do this again real soon, though.

On the way home, I stopped at a car wash on Louisville Road, one of the ways I frequently drive on to get from the city back to my apartment. It has intrigued me. It’s always busy, but today there was only one car waiting, so I stopped. I only got the outside washed, and it cost about the same as the drive thru place I usually go to. But this guy was amazing! He obviously took pride in a job well done, on my car and the other that he worked on. I’m going to have to stop again and have them clean the inside and wax it, too. (a side note: I have never seen so many gold teeth – the washer, the other patron, the owner, who introduced himself and worked on my car – all had brilliant sunny smiles!

I walked at Tom Triplett park one afternoon. It was really a nice day to walk and there were other walkers, people fishing, and even a kayaker. As I was meandering around the pond, other walkers asked if I’d seen the alligator. Well, no. And I can’t say I’m unhappy not to have noticed. I watched very carefully as I continued on. I even asked a couple of fishermen if they had seen him, and they both responded that they hadn’t seen one today, but they knew they were in the water as they’ve seen them before.

Sarah and Jack had some professional photos taken of the adorable Venuti family.