CORRESPONDENTS: St. Luke Living Center years ago
By SUE GUTSCH
St. Luke Living Center reporter
Our bakers made "soft and chewy chocolate-peanut butter cookies" from a Kraft Foods magazine Friday morning. Although this recipe was quick and easy, we felt they weren't among the best we've made.
We played bingo in the afternoon with Lois Winter and "our man Friday," Bill Schimpf. Time allowed us to play even more games than usual — a good thing.
After an exercise session we disassembled our March Madness panorama, including pompoms and a picture of the eventual champion — the KU Jayhawks.
We reconvened the virtual garden project Saturday. We spent the afternoon decorating and placing "stakes" onto our seed packets, cutting out large white clouds, manufacturing rays of sunshine and more raindrops, and coloring pictures of gardening supplies and tools.
Our good friend, Rick Branson, pastor at Eastmoor and Burdick United Methodist churches, was our Sunday afternoon guest minister.
Monday was spent preparing for and observing the April birthdays of Irene Kinsey and Josephine Stroda. We mixed and baked cakes in the morning and served vanilla iced confections along with ice cream during the party portion that afternoon.
During Tuesday morning's mental muscle activity we completed the crossword puzzles, a rhyming word game, and tested our knowledge concerning proverbs of wit and wisdom.
That afternoon we read the last chapter of the eighth and final book in the "Little House" series, "Little Gray Home in the West," the first home of Almanzo and Laura Wilder on the tree claim near DeSmet.
As a conclusion to the months spent with the Ingalls family, we canvassed a Capper's article which included present day pictures of the homestead and a look inside the original structure Pa built in DeSmet, S.D.
Wednesday morning before Dick Pracht arrived for prayer group, Joyce initiated a game of "noodle ball." Because of the indoor venue, the ball was actually a balloon that sustained many whacks and pokes.
That afternoon we made a hasty decision to take advantage of the good weather to go on an outing. The weatherman was forecasting rain for our usual Thursday date. Our destination was Tampa and for residents who had lived in that area, it was an especially nice trip.
In place of an outing the next day, the big red popcorn machine was put into action, sacks were filled, distributed, and devoured.
