This wasn’t a very good week for Danita. She went from fine to really sick in just one day. The doctor said it wasn’t strep and it wasn’t the flu. She was sick most of the week. Danita missed all her normal activities last week. By Saturday, she was feeling better. I got only mildly sick — just some coughing. That was good because Saturday evening was our neighborhood St. Patrick’s Day party. It turned out not to be the best party we’ve ever had. The cabbage looked pretty sad. There were few takers. We had a Keltic band. They spent a lot of time fiddling with their electronics and telling bad stories. And bagpipes simply shouldn’t be played indoors. The strangest thing to me was that they used a small (not as loud) bagpipe for one song and it worked pretty well. But the guy really wanted to play the real deal, so he did. We left at intermission.

I spent a couple of days working on our neighborhood database. We have a photo book for our pool, so we can verify that that people from other neighborhoods don’t start using our pool. It was based on pasting printed pictures on paper, sliding them into plastic sleeves, and putting those into a 3-ring binder. I pulled the photos into our database. As we started using it, some issues surfaced. I’ve been correcting those issues. I wanted to get a camera designed to take the ID photos, similar to the cameras used for driver’s licenses and by just about anybody who uses photo-IDs. The association finally ordered the camera. It should come in this week. I’ll hook it up to our database. That should finish up the project.

We’re going to have a couple of nice days next week, followed by 1 to 3 inches of snow. We are planning a spring luncheon for Circle Tuesday. We never anticipated we might have problems with snow cancellations. We’re in a minor quandary about how much food to buy. If we buy too much, we won’t be able to eat it up before we leave for Assateague. Sigh. First world problems…

That’s the news for this week. I hope this finds everybody doing well.