I SURVIVED!

 ALLRIGHT ..... I survived the leg cramps and the sleeping pill (just Advil PM) and finally got a little rest.  I was so tired, I just could't think.  After playing invalid most of the day, I'm back to blogging.

So here we are back at the Lodge Room.  This was after Frenchman's night where we sold 248 dinner tickets.  Why so popular?  Because these are long time sheepmen, although mostly cattlemen now, who came from France back in the dark ages.  Their ranch was rather far from ours, but we visited a lot over the years about the cattle business. 

These guys know how to cook lamb shanks ... and people LOVE them.  Twice as many folks show up for this dinner as any other.  They also make white beans with ham, bell peppers and onions.  Throw in all the red wine you can drink and fresh baked French bread and you have a house full.

I discovered I STILL don't like lamb.  Just the smell when I walked in the door was enough, but NOOOO ... I decided I should at least TRY it once again.  NOPE ... no way.  I'm a BEEF person!

Once that was over, we headed up to the Lodge room.  I'm so mad about this whole thing.  I won't go into details, but the gal who so deserved the seat she was moving up to after two years of donating all her time, did NOT win the election.  She cried.  I felt so bad for her, having spent all that time doing good for the lodge, only to be ousted by a mean evil person.  I have no other description.

 The other person and all her bar fly friends were so disrespectful it made me angry.  They have no respect for Lodge traditions and know NOT what it means to be a good person.  I won't go into any more because it makes my blood boil!  Oh, and I was elected Trustee once again ... for five years.  I'm going to make her life miserable for the next two years, then I'll resign.  I can play those games too!

Luckily my leg cramps finally went away when I ate half a teaspoon of salt.  Gosh those can be painful, and the more you try to relax, the more it cramps up.  Oh what fun!!  And so the day went by rather slowly.  Having finished the other puzzle, I gave this one a look or two.  Can you tell?  

Yeah, not so much.  I did find two pieces and put them together, so I suppose that's progress.

I brought the lamb shank home, but still could not force it down.  Instead I had this lovely vegetarian variety of chili.  I learned I'm not vegetarian EITHER!  Oh I ate it because I paid for it, but this being the last of the Factor meals, I won't be eating it again.

There was some good news ... my accountant called to say I would only owe a few hundred dollars on my taxes.  YAY!  But then the lady from the Quilt Guild called to ask if I was making those quilts for veterans.  Ummm ...... no.  I really have no directions for these and no pattern to tell me what size to cut them.  

I dug in the bin and pulled out something like 30 panels for the centers.  I cut them up, not really knowing what size to make them, and went looking for matching material.  That's as far as I got.  Making up patterns is not my thing.  I never know how big to make the squares before they are sewn together.  

Mr. Cooper and I snuggled on the couch for awhile until time to deliver the goods.  See's Candy donates a hundred boxes of candy every year to our Special Needs Children and Adults Group BINGO.  Everyone wins and everyone gets a prize.  

Last year just for fun, they threw in a Valentines Dance.  They LOVED it!!!  The volunteers made sure everyone got to dance.  And so that's how I ended up with six boxes of Sees Candy.  Perfect for my diet, yes?  Ummmm NO.  And so I walked around the neighborhood giving out candy to my bestest neighbors.

That was my day until I found this.  This is my public service announcement for the day!!  By the way, when I was a kid, we NEVER got the flu.  Maybe some got the measles or mumps, though I never did, but we were rarely, if ever, sick.  Today it seems we get the flu and every other virus running around on a yearly basis.  Why do you think that is?

And so ended my day.  I'm still a little drug out ... those late nights always bother me.

Today I'm off to do some accounting work and drive the van.  Since I have to keep the batteries up, I might as well drive it to the fabric store three towns over to look for patriotic stuff.  At least I will get out of the house!!!