I am happy because it seems as though my gout is gone...for now. I can trundle down a set of stairs at a youthful pace. I still have an uneven cadence about it though and I don't care for that. I think that is a feature of the gout that will stay with me.
My weight went up. I'm at 217. I'm not sure what I did to make it so but I clearly made a culinary mistake somewhere.
Susan gets to end her moratorium on beer today. That means we will be having a beers at some point today and possibly at the Hub.
I'll be back with exciting tales from "Meals on Wheels", which we will be delivering after church.
Later that day: We have successfully completed the day with a little church, a little service and a lot of food.
We got to church early and Susan began setting up the copious piles of food she had prepared for the coffee hour after the service.
As tradition provides, there was a bunny cake, pictured below.
In the basement of the church, crews were diligently preparing scads of food that several volunteers delivered unto the multitude of peoples who get "Meals on Wheels".
Susan had signed me up for a route but they did not have my name when I checked in. Nonetheless, they managed to find a route for me and it could not have been better. It was one stop at an apartment building run by Catholic Charities. I had ten meals to deliver. The hardest part of the delivery was getting into the building. We had to try and call one of the meal recipients on the intercom to get the Security Doors open. It was a very cumbersome system to navigate through and every time we came close to finding a name, they did not exist in the system or they did not answer the call.
In the meantime, there was this lady sitting in the lobby of the building...not twenty feet away from us...watching us struggle to get in and she just sat there. Finally, an elderly gentleman came into the lobby area, saw us and walked over to activate the doors.
Thank you ma'am! You are very helpful.
So, we got our meals delivered and returned to the church for clean up. There was still some food delivery activity going on and I decided to pack up a few meals and deliver them to the group of perennial beggars that are stationed at the bottom of the hill below the church. I gave out four meals there and one meal down and around the corner from there. I could have given away two more meals, had I had them.
To my great surprise and relief, most of the clean up was done when I returned. I vacuumed the floor while Susan helped in the kitchen. We ended up with some lovely ham-bones and large chunks of ham that will be turned into Split Pea soup in the near future.
As the tradition continues, we went to Das Stein Haus for an Easter Buffet. There were eight of us in all and a delightful time was had.
It was approaching 3:00 when we got home. It had been a lovely day and it was holding but the forecast was threatening rain for late in the day.
We decided to try and fit our painting projects in. Susan with her shutters and I with my shelves. We were successful and did it quickly enough that we were able to include a nap prior to walking over to the Hub at 5.
All in all, a good day except for the extra pounds I expect to have added.
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