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CORRESPONDENTS:   St. Luke Living Center years ago

By SUE GUTSCH

St. Luke Living Center reporter

Friday the 13th didn't "brew up" any bad luck for our bakers. The English cookies we made using a recipe of Esther Sanders', taken from a 1985 St. Luke Hospital and Nursing Home cookbook, "Food for My Household," were delicious.

The good luck continued when Lois Winter and Bill Schimpf kept our bingo date that afternoon. Connie Poppe, a daughter of Agnes Bina from Oklahoma City, joined her mom as we played.

One of the favorite activities at our home is the every other Saturday morning Gene Vinduska plays his accordion for us and this week was it. We also aim to eat any cookies remaining from Friday's baking.

The Rev. Mike Eurit of Eastmoor United Methodist Church was our Father's Day guest minister and fittingly, his children Colin and Sarah accompanied their father.

Early Tuesday morning our little beauty shop began to glisten with red, blue, and white tinsel and dozens of small flags and stars in a salute to Old Glory as Independence Day nears. Beautician Bonnie "decorates" hair in a fine manner, also.

Interwoven with hair care, we used some mental muscle during our morning activity, reviewing some flag-flying protocol. Then while making a long list of things apropos of June and/or summertime, Lydia Batt told of catching a four-pound 34-inch eel "a few" years ago.

In the afternoon, after sharing a couple of excerpts from "Chicken Soup for the Soul," our book club began reading "Lassie Come Home," an oldie-but-goodie by Eric Knight. As we were finishing the fourth chapter, Lydia brought proof of her fish story — a photo of her well-dressed self, holding the eel at arm's length and shoulder high!

Dick Pracht was here for prayer group Wednesday morning and Shirley Bowers played the piano and led the large group for Thursday morning's hymn sing.

In the afternoon we had a Popsicle birthday party in honor of Pearl and Phyllis who reached this year's milestone earlier in the month. We also remembered Jane Williams who died since her 96th birthday June 1.

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