Sat., March 1, 2003 - Talked to Greta. Lydia Witte died last week. Ruby Ritze's granddaughter had triplets -- a boy and identical girl twins. On TV watched "Milestones and Memories" of Lawrence Welk shows. Very very interesting.
Sun., March 2, 2003 - Nancy came at noon and brought pizza. The same Sunday routine. We played several games of Rummikub.
Mon., March 3, 2003 - Played cards in the evening. Delores served pumpkin pie.
For only three, somewhat short entries, I have several things to talk about.
I don't know which Ritze granddaughter that is, but regardless, I wonder what the medical odds are of triplets that include identical twins.
I could comment on memories of my own of watching Lawrence Welk. For instance I, or Grandma, recorded on a tape recorder (nothing so much as a VCR then) an episode or two and I remember listening and re-listening to one of them. I'm not sure what the theme of the show was but two of the songs were Edelweiss and Loch Lomond. Which then leads me to remember how when tape recorders were new, we'd turn one on and secretly record family conversations, usually over a meal. I suppose people nowadays would consider that low-tech and likely not fun, but I recall we did get a bang out of listening to some of those afterwards. And there is still the classic, and long lost, recording of, at a minimum Aunt Irene and Aunt Helen, in the car somewhere and lost. I can't recall a single word of it but do remember it was hysterical to listen to as they tried to figure out where they were.
And on a slow day, I could also research and/or comment on pumpkin pie, a real favorite of mine and of Mitch's. I tell people we can't leave him alone in a room with one. Perhaps not so much now that he's grown, but definitely when he was growing up.
Lastly, and unrelated to Grandma's entries, I'd like to mention that yesterday was my 60th birthday. Rather a non-event given the current Covid restrictions. I had hoped to rent out the Joyo Theatre on Sunday and have a showing of a movie, open to family that wanted to come. I thought having the theater to ourselves would be okay since we could all spread out. But since I had been exposed recently and new cases are through the roof, I thought it wise not to do it at all. And normally I would bring treats to work, but out of 20 or so of us, I think 6 were here. I didn't know that the night before but I was strangely unmotivated to make anything. Kinda glad I didn't since I would have had extras to bring home and no one wants to be tempted with that. It was such a non-event that around 10 p.m. I finally reminded John what day it was since he had not yet mentioned it. But, the highlight of the day was Anna dropping by my office with a gift from her and Dakota and Mitch -- a Cricut machine. Something I had been secretly interested in but had not thought to buy for myself. So, good call on the kids' part. The gift was really nice, of course, but the best part was having a little unexpected visit with Anna.
