Fragments

I’ve just finished five days of steroids for an asthma flare and I suspect I have more in my future. This was probably brought on by the fact that my insurance has stopped paying for one of my maintenance inhalers and I made the foolhardy decision to see if I could get along without it. 

I didn’t have to do that. 

My doctor will find me a reasonable equivalent and I should have been on top of that.  I am so fortunate to have health care coverage. I’m not complaining. But sometimes following up on and tracking down all that stuff is exhausting. I don’t know how people can work full time and still jump through all the health insurance hoops. I don’t know how people cope when they don’t even have access to the hoops.

In light of my prednisone brain I bring you today’s edition of Fragments.

My husband and I were invited to a school event the other evening which involved a visit from the Mike’s Gelato truck. We noticed the sky getting darker as we headed down the road and made the usual seasonal remarks. And yet it was still warm enough to be eating gelato outside at the end of September. As I stepped up to the window to place my order, the truck radio started playing “Summer Breeze” by Seals and Crofts and for just one moment the world felt like a good and trustworthy place.

I had mint chocolate chip. It was delicious.

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I had a visit recently from two very nice fellows who came to get my chairs. 

They’re part of an old kitchen table set. Very good condition! No one wanted them on Buy Nothing. I followed a suggestion I’d seen on Facebook and reached out to a group called Home of Our Own. They wanted them!

For reasons unknown to me, they sent two gentlemen with two different trucks on the pickup run. They looked as amused as I did when they realized I only had two chairs. 

I’m not sure, but it might have been the men pictured below. It looks like they are recruiting!

HOOO Transportation volunteers Pat and Steve need your help! They - and their other team members pick up donated items and deliver a houseful of furniture & household goods - and smiles - to our clients. 

Duties include moving furniture - from dressers to sofas to tables, placing items as directed by the clients and assembling pieces as needed.  It’s a good workout, and truly a worthy effort! 

Get more information and sign up at tinyurl.com/HOOOHelpWanted

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A quick trip to the East Columbia Branch library yielded an excellent book on children’s art and a discovery.

Join the fun at our social engagement stations! Find Booker!

I found Booker. Apparently Booker likes bunnies.

Though less hyped on social media, this is also an engagement station. If you know how to use it.

Are you vote ready?

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Speaking of social engagement, I found myself headed to Touché Touchet yesterday because of one photograph on Facebook. Apple cinnamon rolls.

It can’t have been much after eleven am. They were already sold out. They did have one apple turnover so I wasn’t completely bereft. I also had a lovely discussion with the clerk about gingerbread, which I love. They don’t carry it and this nice young man had never even tasted it. Horrors!

What can I say? Steroids make you hungry.

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New sign up at the Medical Arts Building next to the hospital.

Masking in this facility remains mandatory for anyore with fever or upper respiratory symptoms, or who thinks they might have COVID. For most others, masking is strongly recommended.

They only post these when they have good reason. Just saying. 

Have any good local fragments? Let me know.

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