OUR NEXT BOOK

BC, #2, and I visited Nannie & Pappaw at the Nursing Home apartments today. Our weekly visit is usually on Saturday, but since Pappaw has been sick we are going more than once a week now. Since Gabe was home for the weekend, we decided to visit today when he started back to Austin. We had a great visit and many laughs. After leaving on the way home, BC and I decided that we should write a book about all the funny things that we have heard and seen in the last ten years that Nannie and then Nannie and Pappaw both have lived either in the Nursing Home or the "Independent (VERY IMPORTANT TERM) Living" apartments. There is a full list of characters and a great story line for if not a book for sure a "sitcom" just waiting to be put down on paper.

One of the stories involves all of the ducks that live in the pond behind the apartments. I just could not resist taking a picture of them while there. They are a great group and full of personality just like we all are.
All you have to do is pop open the back door of the apartment and they come running. It seems they have been programmed just like Pavlov's Dog to come running when they hear that door pop open. Perhaps it is because Pappaw used to throw all of his scraps out the door after his meal and they enjoyed the largess.

All was well and fine until the skunks showed up to enjoy the feast also. You see Arcadia is small town and surrounded by woods-so a skunk is not a rare thing. Pappaw said when you walked down the hall all you could smell was the skunk smell. Pappaw was banned from throwing food out the door anymore, but the ducks-well unlike some of the residents they have LONG memories and after the door is opened -here they come-looking for a handout.

POOR DUCKS

We were bouncing around a name for our book or sitcom and came up with -

"Leslie Lake Loons" (In honor of the nursing home and the ducks) or perhaps

"Leslie Lake Lyrics". What do you think?

There are many cute stories and a wealth of humor to be told about Leslie Lakes and the residents. Why today alone I walked away with 3 chapters. Now to find the time to write them.