Our singers on Monday mornings might just develop into a choir of sorts! Although we don’t sing to perform, but for our enjoyment, others enjoy hearing us. Aileen Wayne picks up our soprano harmonies while Harry Kincaid is a fantastic bass! You can also hear Penny Stafford and Shirley Klinski filling in with the melody. All in all, Stacey keeps the best pitch with Laura at the piano. Lunch arrived and there was time to really enjoy the outdoors this week. The temps were perfect and change is in the air as the leaves are beginning to fade their green. Stacey popped up some corn and delivered bowls of popcorn to us while we enjoyed visiting and sharing stories from the weekend. Just before supper, we rolled into bowling! Four rounds of bowling with four top winners: Fourth place, Alvin Bergmark; third place, Willie Lindstrom; second place, Beryl Anderson; and first place, one point from a perfect game, Frances White! Fruit bingo concluded the evening.

Tuesday began with a fast-paced game of Name That Tune. Not only do they need to figure out the title, they must also be the first to guess it! Out of 55 total songs, winners were, with the number of correct and fastest answers: Penny Stafford (22), Mary Ellen Coulson (15), Shirley Klinski (13), Irene Converse (2), Hazel Berger (2), and Harry Kincaid (1). In the afternoon, the crafters were busy putting together scarecrows to start off the fall season. They are lovely decorations for each door. We had just a bit of time left for some fun trivia before supper. Did you know that butterflies taste with their feet? Or that President Woodrow Wilson didn’t learn to read until he was 11 years old? Oh my, the strange things we learn. The evening kept us busy with dice games. Frances White and Lorraine Anderson were this week’s big winners.

“Movers & Shakers” started the Wednesday workout crew. They finished with some kickball before lunch. Bingo was set up in the dining room and soon everyone began winning quarters and candy. A game of blackout ended bingo and Myrna Buchholtz won blackout for the third week in a row! She’s a lucky one! Our Wednesday social time ended the day with Coca-Cola and corn chips!

Thursday is news day as we gather to hear about our community through the Courier Wedge and the Pierce County Journal. We are grateful that each paper regularly prints our “chatter” from the week. Jessica served us coffee and cookies and then read all the news to us. Trivia filled in the time until lunch. Lou Seyffer guessed the most answers for first place. She knew almost all of the states and their capitals! Lunch arrived and manicures followed. After all the ladies chose their colors and had their nails painted, a movie was requested. Folks chose, “Seven Brides For Seven Brothers.” A great musical with many songs we remembered. The evening offered a fun game of pokeno with Penny Stafford as the biggest winner, followed by Sandy Messier, Mary Ellen Coulson, and Lou Seyffer.

Friday, we drum. Plain and simple. Everyone makes up their own rhythms and wow, they are unique! We have fun especially with the old rock and roll songs. Lunch was served and soon Stacey was busy delivering mail and making room visits. Mid-afternoon, and happy hour begins. Polka music rattled the halls as everyone had a chance to get their hands painted in fall colors. Once covered in squishy paint, our sported seniors slapped their hands onto our “tree.” Our finished tree was beautiful with all the handprints and we enjoyed making it. It must have been an apple tree since we also enjoyed apple dumplings!

Rose Bergh was totally into hand painting and participated enthusiastically. Photos by Laura Kadlec

The concentration was evident on Henry Gingras’ face as he placed his painted hand in ‘just the right spot!”

“Are you sure this will wash off?” questioned Aileen Wayne during the Plum City Care Center’s fall “tree” painting.

Don Anibas said he’d try anything once!

The tickling of the paint brush certainly made Ivan Mason laugh!