Saturday March 23, 2013

Saturday March 23/13  update #401

Bella is keeping herself busy with cooking and bread-making and is not accompanying me on my rounds today.

I have been enjoying a quiet morning since I did manage to get all my photos processed last night.  I am really getting into that Tom Clancy novel, The Bear and The Dragon, and that occupied the early afternoon.

My first stop today was to bring a reciprocal Zhumir and Coke offering to Jorge’s volleyball group.  Only one fellow was there when I arrived but gradually the other required 5 players showed up and they were all appreciative of my gift.  I called Jorge but he said he was being tied up by his wife for another hour so I never did get to see him.  

I couldn’t hang around long because I had little time to get to Rommie and Charles’ get-together partly for Charles’ 84^th Birthday, actually yesterday.  That totally blew me away because 64^th would have made sense to me, or maybe 74^th at the outside, but I would have never guessed in a million years that he was 84.   Rommie must be way younger than he is.

I knew most of the people there but could only spend ¾ of an hour there before catching the bus to Joe’s.  I did get to chat with a lot of friends in that short period though.  Rommie and Charles are now renting this huge ½ duplex in the north side of El Centro, and the occupant of the other side, Patricia, is very well known to us as well.

Joe’s had the usual nice crowd and we had very enjoyable dinner guests.  We were surprised to see that Barbie and John weren’t behind the bar tonight but Angel did a creditable job in their absence. 

That was today’s excitement.   Hugs to all.  Please see all new photos at http://souvenircuenca.blogspot.com/