It's a bit cold in here this morning. I even turned up the heat to 68 and it's helping some. Too bad I didn't lay a fire yesterday.

We had pancakes yesterday morning and managed to hang around doing nothing. Hank, Chris and Nick went to Sandy Creek for a walk, even though it had rained and was a little damp out. They had a nice time and stopped for lunch on the way home.

Meanwhile, the 5 of us went to Lanier Gardens, where we had lunch and it was pretty good. Then we had a tour of the facility and it was quite nice. If it weren't for all the old people... The rooms were pleasant, if small. The subsidized rooms are not as nice as the full price ones, naturally, but the dining hall land most of the amenities are shared. They even said my Dad could have a garden plot. He said it was not as bad as he had feared and we had to agree. Bonney and I are looking forward to when we can move in! It is a large place, with lots of long corridors and little rooms and alcoves for sitting and reading or playing games.

We came home again (after stopping to get some stamps) and rested up a bit before playing Monopoly and drinking Scarlett O'Haras. I won! It was a very unusual game, because I got a lot of property up front, partly because I rolled doubles twice. The most important bit of luck is that I landed on all three properties of the light orange group: St. James, Tennessee, and New York. So I was able to buy a monopoly without any dickering and build on it early in the game. I never had any trouble buying houses and hotels and dominated from the beginning. I have to admit it was kind of fun. We ate leftovers as we could. And then spent some time looking at old pictures. Eventually, the Captain and Vanessa went to Nancy's and we watched a bit of TV--the Wizard of Oz was on, for one thing, and we enjoyed some Eddie Izzard too.