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Let’s hear it for a real spring. Some showers, new snow on the Missions, plenty of wind, temperatures going up and down, lots of daffodils and budding trees. This is the time to celebrate a new beginning. Can you tell I love spring?
How time flies. It was once again the time for the honor roll students of Dixon School to join us for lunch. They especially seemed to enjoy the menu. Indian fry-bread tacos are a big favorite of many of us.
The April menu will be:
• Thursday, April 16: hamburgers
• Monday, April 20: chicken, potato salad
• Thursday, April 23: chicken salad sandwiches, salad
• Monday, April 27: tuna casserole
Meals are served at 6 p.m. on Mondays and at noon every Thursday. The cost is just $4 and take-home meals are available.
Last month’s pinochle scores were: Jim Barnes was high scorer and Ruby Mocabee was low. Darlene Salomon took home the door prize and Ray Salomon had the most double pinochles. If you’d like to join this traveling group of players, Dixon will host them on the fourth Monday of each month. This month’s gather is on April 24 at 7 p.m. Come for dinner and stay to exercise your mind.
We were entertained at a couple mealtimes by a “classic country” singer Bill Auchus from Pablo. By classic, I mean in the style of Merle Haggard and Ray Price. Bill plays the guitar and when he’s not singing, he plays the harmonica with a special contraption to hold it in place. Bill is appreciating the good meals around the area, as he says he eats out at the senior centers all week. We look forward to his next visit...I wonder if he will do a George Jones song?
Enjoy the showers and flowers that this month has in store. (I’m still expecting a snowstorm, as it usually makes one last blast when you think winter is over.) Just hoping the fruit blossoms are not impacted by the near-freezing weather at night. My big tree has only had apricots twice in the past fifteen years. Notice all the bugs out already, mosquitoes, butterflies, ants, and box elder bugs? “Spring is busting out all over.”
