6.196 discards, drive, meetings

Wednesday 06/18/2025

In the morning I worked on moving unwanted items out of the Green Room and into the gift shop’s third-floor furniture showroom.

Sidebar: gift shop, properly known (since a naming contest a year ago) as the Treasure Trove, is one of the most successful resident-run programs, routinely generating large amounts of cash for resident activities. When a person dies or moves permanently to the nursing wing, they or their relatives decide what to do with their stuff. Often, the choice is to just give it to the T. T. for resale. Residents and staff alike shop the T. T. for all sorts of stuff, from jewelry to housewares, and some furniture. Mary Beth, who runs the resident volunteer staff of the T. T., has set up a room on the 3rd floor where furniture and other large items are displayed for sale. She uses an open-auction system, where each item has a bid sheet, you enter your bid, after a month whoever posted the high bid gets to buy the item.

So this morning I moved a large Casio electronic keyboard and stand up there, and posted its bid sheet. That took some fussin’ because I discovered the stand was falling apart. I had to make trips to the resident workshop to find an allen wrench and so on.

Then I took a nice break and took Joanne out for a drive. She can only walk limited distance, like across the car park, so she was glad to get outside. We drove down to the old Palo Alto duck pond and watched birds and talked.

At 1 I joined the FOPAL monthly volunteer zoom meeting. No big news there. Then at 2 I met with Sandy and we moved the remaining items from the Green Room to the 3rd floor showroom and I made bid sheets for them using Mary Beth’s template as a guide.

And at 4 I met with the Good Times committee, another hour finalizing plans for the September show.

I completed editing two more chapters of Cecil’s autobiography. By editing I mean, reading it and correcting the minor errors the scanner software made. She told quite a story. Miserable. I really feel for my mother.

I also worked on a project that Joanne and I are cooking up, more on that later.