05-12-23 Family Dance Night
I had a zoom meeting with a new client from out of town at 10 this morning, dealt with all my email and VIMF invites to new applicants and then I headed to Rotary Park to see what was happening with set up for the children’s festival. I arrived just as they were struggling to put together the big party tent for the Green Room and joked that the Foreman was here. I promptly whipped out my phone and found a diagram and told them the layout of all the poles. It went up in no time at all and everyone was grateful. Timing is everything. I will print the directions for next year. I left then to go see mom and read the paperwork they had left about the Power of Attorney and Health Directives, etc. while she was in physio. She had read it too and we ticked off the things she needed to ask the Notary to draw up. We had a nice visit and made a plan with the nurse that I will pick up Mom in my car to take her to the ENT at the hospital next Thursday and if it is too tough on her they will bring her back by ambulance. It will be a good test run as they think she will be able to go home on the 26th. They also think she will need a walker for the rest of her life now. She seems in good spirits and is eager to get back to her community at Joseph Creek.
I picked up more beverages from Selkirk which I dropped at home and then headed to the park again. The weather is perfect and I helped put together some cool wood trees with Velcro on them for messages and then just made myself useful wherever I was needed. It is a great team to work with. It was fun to sit in the chill out tent and blow up balloons with Monica and learn more about each other.
Tonight was Pretty for the People playing with the Amuse Troupe performing in between, There was a stilt walker and hula hoops and all kinds of fun that all the little kids just loved. After the band played their second set to a well packed crowd, the Troupe did a fire show and it was a lot of fun for everyone. The music was great and sounded fabulous through the new equipment that Fisher Peak Performing Artists Society loaned to them as a major sponsor. Matt was the Audio guy and he did a great job even with us panicking him by changing the speaker set up with half an hour to go before show time.
I like being the ‘see a need, fill it’ person. I was able to observe and assist where needed. I even got to make an announcement and welcome the band back. Everyone was in such a good mood and I can;t wait until tomorrow. I do have to get up early to pick up food at Safeway and ice at Arby’s by 8:30 and be down there to help set up the hospitality/green room for the 10-4 Festival.
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