Thursday, April 9

Thursday morning, Joe and I drove over to Monroe City today to retrieve my high school class jacket from the Blue Jean museum, and I spotted a wild turkey in a field -- that's the only wildlife I've seen here.  But the thunderstorms are wild enough for me!  And we are anticipating another one during the night tonight.  Joe didn't sleep very well last night, so I guess it's my turn tonight.  It is fairly warm here, in the 60s and 70s, until the storm cools it down.  Gets very muggy too.  This is definitely not my favorite time of year here, even if the lilacs are due to bloom in another week or so.  I'm looking forward to heading to Florida, hopefully we will start heading that way on the 24th, as soon as we leave the doctor's office.

We got back in town, we stopped by an orthopedic surgeon's office and made a doctor's appointment for Joe, for the 24th.  Hopefully his foot will be healed enough to move on to a walking boot, but we will just have to wait and see. Then, we went to the Office Max store to make copies of our questionnaires for tomorrow night.  Rather than give a set to everyone, we decided just to make one set per table and hopefully they will pass them around during the course of the evening.  At 11 cents per page, we were looking at about $125, so we re-thought the idea of including the questionnaires in the notebooks Barbara had put together for each graduate.  After I got the copies made, we met Barbara for lunch at Dot's, then went over to the Lodge to start getting the room ready for tomorrow night.  Nancee met us there, and we got right to work.  Joe was our official picture taker, so he got to oversee the three of us as we made the room ready for our party.

 

 

 

 Barbara put together a really nice display for our Memorial table -- we lost two classmates during high school, and three more since we graduated, and we wanted to make sure they were not forgotten during our celebration tonight.  The individual flowers on that table will be taken to their grave sites next week -- Barbara, Nancee and I are going to make that journey next Wednesday.

 The table decorations included placemats of the class picture from our Senior Trip, standing in front of the Capitol Building. 

Finally, the room was ready to our satisfaction. The tables looked great, as did our displays.

So we called it a day, and we went back to the house in time for dinner (ham and beans) -- Fred and Judy joined us for dinner, Billie Bloebaum stopped by but didn't eat with us, and Rachelle brought the kids back up for a while, but they brought their dinner with them.