Library services

The Public Library offers a monthly pick up and delivery service,  A person can order specific library materials on their library card, or just specific genres, such as DVD movies, classics or biography or adventure.  The delivery is in a red plastic bag.  When materials are due the following month, the bag is set out by the room door, and a new delivery is made concurrently.  I think this is a great service.
For the in-house library, The Public Library brings at least five shelves of large-print books and changes the selection once a monht.  I have found a Hugh Walpole novel , and am now reading a biography of Gen W T Sherman, from these shelves.
But our library room is a wreck.  People have brought in four cartons of "donation" books that are sitting on the floor and there is nowhere for these books to go. I need 2 men and a truck to empyt  a top shelf (donate these to the Library warehouse book sale, fill the top shelves with older books, place new donations on center shelves. A day's work, but the shambles are unhealthy. If people will not recirculate material, then we shall have to curtail accepting "donations" of books and clean out all rubbish.

Saturday night movies

25 Feb 012.  Mr Connif brought us another library DVD to entertain Saturday evening    In the audience was the lady who over sleeps in the comfortable new living room chairs.  She was out of the way, shaped like Tweedle-dee, then slept, snoring and quacking while we watched Casablanca. Occasionally the chair cushions have to be laundered and the cushions aired because the staff is not always able to put protectors under her bottom. After an hour an attendant took her to her room.
There is movie seating for six people on large sofas.  If it is a good movie next week I could borrow one of the wheel chairs stored in the lobby and use that to sit in, instead of sitting under the TV and  twisting my neck.  I was interested in seeing Peter Lorre in Casablanca.
March 10, At this Saturday night movie our snoring lady was not in attendance.
The room was quiet, doors were shut. I think someone is watching over the movie audience.

Good new recreation director Feb 24 012

At this senior home I have worked ten months to start collecting money to replace eight trees destroyed by disease.  After making inquiries of staff, I visited a local bank, then I sent a letter to  our director and two other staff in 2011:

Do you need another purse? Or more ice cream? 

Has it occurred to give gifts

for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Birthdays, etc

that will be permanently useful to the residents?

Eight sheltering trees

between our home and XXX Road

have been cut down!

This means dirt, dust and noise reach us

relentlessly.

The  bank has offered to act as custodian

for a tree fund if families

want to donate in behalf of a resident.

Jane might act as agent and keep a list

Of contributors on the bulletin boards

….”From the family of:____________

in honor of his/her_________-”

Thursday last week I asked the new recreation director I shall name Jane, about my taking up this project again.  She came later with the reply, "The company will replace all those trees in the spring!"  This makes me very happy, and why did no one answer my queries last summer, before I went to the bank, etc.?

Independent Living

It is February 23, 2012,  already and at breakfast we are out of brown sugar.  I like
brown sugar on my oatmeal in the morning.  Sometimes, we are out of fiber
drink, or danish rolls, or EGGS. I believe the company saves money by being
"out of" food. Good news this week is, we have new towel dispensers in the
public restrooms.  The old round towel dispensers were often stuck so the towels
would not come out. This is better.
And the new lighting in the hallways is brighter,