We had some amazing food this week. We started on Sunday with the Moosewood gnocchi. It is absolutely fabulous. Then Danita made a wonderful dinner with no good name, but it had pasta, peas, mushrooms, prosciutto, and a some red pepper to give it a little bite. That was pretty darn good. Each dish made 2 dinners. But wait … there’s more. Saturday we went to the Army Preservation Jazz Band concert with our neighbors. This is a “big band” and they did a bang-up job on seasonal music. Afterwards, we came back to our house to have some of Danita’s most excellent chili. And we enjoyed a very nice conversation with our neighbors. My goodness we ate well this week.

We didn’t have an official neighborhood party this week, but there was a clubhouse tree trimming event. This is a mostly ladies activity. Danita went and had pizza and cookies. I went out for a burger.

I spent plenty of time at the clubhouse working on computers, including 4 hours today working with another resident, Joe, on our WiFi network. We weren’t able to implement all of Joe’s plans, but we did a very nice job. We now have a strong WiFi signal throughout the clubhouse, out on the deck, and all around the pool. Plus we got rid of 3 pieces of equipment. We both think it came out very well.

In addition to all that, this week includes the first Friday in December. We went to Bob Evans for our traditional Christmas shopping. Danita was well prepared with suggestions. We sailed through the list and went home to actually order the stuff. Our shopping was completely done by Noon.

And just to have one more kicker, I got a free entree and desert at the Silver Diner for my birthday. So we went to the Silver Diner for breakfast this morning. For desert, I chose a Smith Island cake with chocolate icing, which we enjoyed after finishing up the gnocchi.

Who could ask for more than this in one week? I hope this finds everybody doing well.