St. Luke Living Center correspondent
Living center bakers are not particularly fond of spiders but we certainly had fun Friday with some black and orange ones. We baked four dozen cupcakes in the morning and right after lunch, we iced them with orange and chocolate frosting. We topped the cupcakes with quarter-sized, plastic arachnids. Forty-eight spiders crawling on cupcakes made some of us a little queasy.
It seemed like old times when Magdalen Dvorak, armed with a pan of kolaches, arrived later that afternoon to call bingo. Bill Schmipf was here to assist with the games and eating the Bohemian sweet rolls.
The classic Saturday movie matinee this week was “An Affair to Remember,” an enduring love story starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.
Members of Aulne United Methodist Church brought a lovely Sunday afternoon service of beautiful music with a wonderful message.
Early Monday afternoon, third graders from Marion Elementary School performed songs with Halloween-ish words sung to familiar tunes. It is such a treat when Mrs. Hancock and her students visit.
Edmund Kroupa’s daughter-in-law, Kimbra, brought two large containers of chocolate cookies to help celebrate Edmund’s birthday, Nov. 27.
Later we played prize bingo, a variation of our usual game. Winning was fairly easy but for some the difficult part was choosing a prize from the potpourri offered.
We spent time Tuesday morning preparing for trick or treaters. We also used mental muscle to solve Halloween games and to bring color to a haunted house.
During book club that afternoon, we laughed as Marley, the very large, rowdy, golden Lab retriever puppy was kicked out of obedience school. We shook our heads as he nearly demolished the Grogan’s garage during a violent afternoon thunderstorm.
Later that day, Cassandra Meyer, accompanied by her mother and older sister representing Brownie Girl Scout Troop #59, brought some seasonal foam puppets on sticks the troop had made.
Shirley Bowers was here Thursday morning for hymn singing. After lunch, the outing bunch boarded the small bus and went east to Chase County State Lake. They also drove to Cottonwood Falls which is home of a beautiful, famous, old stone courthouse structure on the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve. Joann Fitzpatrick rode “shotgun” through “them thar hills.”