First day on duty at Care

June 1 was our official start date on our own. Turned out to be quite a busy day. We went over around 7:30 to say a final good bye to the 5 teams that were leaving. What a neat bunch of people they were. Around 9:00 Gary drove the little bus into town for the twice weekly Wal-mart trip. He only had 5 people this morning. At 9:30 I drove one of the residents in to an appointment with the chiropractor. When we both returned we needed to move our motor home from the Escapees Campground over to our spot at Care. We needed to be moved by noon. Moved it over, plugged in the electric, turned on the AC and headed in for lunch. When lunch was over we went out to try to get the motor home all set up. Thought we had a few hours until our next assignment. Just getting started when Dan (the volunteer coordinator--our "boss") called and said he had scheduled a meeting for 2:30. So much for the few hours. I went into the building and by the nurse's office to have my TB test and made it to the meeting on time. Gary finished the things he had to do, took a quick shower, ran by the nurse's station and made it to the meeting a little late. We were still in the meeting when it was time for us to be in the kitchen for our evening duty there. Ran in there and helped serve supper, helped clean up and went back to the rig and collapsed. Hopefully that will be the only day quite like that.

The residents are all such interesting people that you are glad you can do things to help them. We have people with Doctorates, retired civil engineers, one that was the book keeper for the Grateful Dead, people that traveled all over the world for their jobs and many more. Of course they love to tell their life story to a whole new crew of listeners.