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2000:  World AIDS Day
2001:  Dear Wisdom
2002:  Serendipity
2003:  A New Look...An Old Message
2004:  Sometimes I Make Good Choices
2005:  Shirking My Civic Duty
2006:  Memories with a Cherry on Top
2007:  Double Standards
2008:  Wow
2009:  Where No One Has Gone Before
2010:  Screwed by Technology
2011:  Scrooged
2012: The Three Scroogesl
2013:  Sunday Stealing

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Updated: 11/7
Kate: The Unexamined Life of
Katharine Hepburn

Books Read in 2014
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"Exceptional Depravity"

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DECK THEM HALLS, PLAY THEM GAMES

2 December 2014

Not only was I here to get a taste of an Iowa winter (temps now in the 30s, so snow is gone), but I was here for the start of the "tarting up" process here at Mallard Point.

The door to the apartment of managers Renee and Matthew Oltroppe has been fancied up for a week or so now, but today was the day they started decorating the rest of the place.

I started to leave the apartment this morning to go and get coffee and I could see a Christmas tree at the end of the hall being decorated.  I got my coffee and walked down there to watch for awhile.

All over the place, little Christmassy decorations were being added, like this little tree outside the beauty shop.

Peach and I wanted to stay out of the apartment for awhile, while it was being cleaned, so we sat by the newly decorated fireplace and talked about the past 3 weeks, cancer, quality of life and all sorts of things.

After lunch, Bob went back to the apartment and Peach decided to go upstairs and play cards. 

This was the first time since I've been here we were able to play cards and we sat with Florence and Pat and played a game called Hand and Foot, which is like partners canasta.  Peach and I have been playing canasta together for 60 years and we did very well in this game.

After we won the game, we went downstairs to join another group of women to play "Freckle," which is a dice game.

I discovered I'm not as good at dice as I am with cards, but suspect that if I lived here, I would learn quickly.  Here is Peach with Marilyn, who was having a bad day and Maggie, who was not.

CORRECTION: It's called "Farkle," not "Freckle" and a link to the rules is in the comment section.

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