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Wednesday, May 19, 2021

CREAMED POSSUM

Last night I started a new read.

New read; I'm already half-way through it.

In the story, people eat possum, racoon, and squirrel … among other foods.

This morning, I drove to exercise class again, in Castle Rock.

Castle Rock from Heron Pointe via Coal Creek & Delameter Road - 28 mins.
CR Senior Center Itinerary.

It is good to mingle with a group of people again.

It is good to laugh.

It is good to work muscles, and tone the body.

Though possum is not on my menu: or any menu I plan to utilize, exercise is beneficial no matter what foods I indulge in 😉

Leaving Castle Rock, I decided to drive home over Hazel Dell Road, instead of my normal route over Delameter: I hadn’t driven Hazel Dell for a few months.

Hazel Dell Road from Castle Rock via WA 411 N, Delameter Road - 10 mins.
Lexington from Hazel Dell Road - 8 mins.

Halfway through Hazel Dell to Lexington, I decided to drive into downtown Longview and stop at the Longview Senior Center before driving home; to see what they have slated – Bob and I had thought to check it out before our life together was severed.

Heron Pointe from Lexington via WA 411 S & Downtown Longview - 21 mins.

This afternoon, I did it for me.

I saw when I pulled into a parking space on Commerce before the Senior Center Building, that a restaurant had replaced the casino-escort services that had been there – THANK YOU, LORD!

The Casino & 'Escort Services' are gone. YAY!

I practically skipped and whistled my way to the Center door – the casino/escort ‘businesses had been a large part of my procrastination; as well as missing Bob being with me. As soon as I entered, I liked the atmosphere.

And I knew Bob would have liked it, too, if he were still here.

I know he is watching my forward progress, and smiling with approval at all I have overcome to push forward.

I need to round my days/calendar out more; a little more variety is welcome 😊

Looking at the Itinerary sheet, I saw that the Longview Center had things scheduled that the Castle Rock Center does not – that is a good thing!

LV Senior Center Itinerary.

I will not be renewing the Kelso Senior Center Card … there is nothing on their docket that interests me; and they are not extending the remainder of the card that was not used during the covid shutdown: that is not okay with me. There should be an extension for $$ paid and services not rendered.

But I did notice, in reading their newsletters before they shut and barred their doors, that the Center is a demonrat club house – engaged in, and pandering to demonrat and liberal ideologies: also, not okay with me. I would not have renewed membership anyway.

I did enjoy Keenager’s Fellowship on Wednesdays … but the church had shut their doors, too. And there has been no mention of Keenager’s gatherings again, so I’m thinking that venue is no longer an option either. Too bad; it was enjoyable.

I was scooting into the driver’s seat and buckling up, when the phone rang: I was being invited to Supper out Coal Creek at 3 P.M.; I had just enough time to get home … put my weights away, tidy the bed I’d left in a tangle this morning, and slip the spaghetti supper’s I’d made last night, into the freezer: before driving out Coal Creek.

Spaghetti Suppers.
Coal Creek from Heron Pointe - 5 min.

After we had supped and were sitting around schmoozing, I mentioned that I was trying to trap a racoon that has been making a pest of itself on my lot. That topic brought up the topic of some southern people eating possum and racoon – and some midwestern people eating squirrel.

I can’t even imagine! EEW

So, when I logged into FB, and saw that someone had posted a reference to creamed possum as a joke … the timing of the post tickled my funny bone 😊

And all I could think was if creamed possum was on the menu …


 … there would be no problem with me slimming down 😉

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