Where do I begin? In January of course. This is not as great as I would like it to be but it is what it is, and I have to live with it. Just making the list has been cathartic. I recommend that all who read this do the same thing at the end of each year.
2021 Accomplishment List
- Wrapped up a successful winter coat drive, 735 coats collected and donated to ten charities
- Launched a new sock collection with the District Grammar Schools
- Began a new Intarsia project “Night Hunter”
- Moved Lovely into a new job three times
- Delivered lunch to Silver Cross Hospital Health Care workers
- Met on ZOOM for the first time
- Attended 12 OASIS meetings for the Sight Impaired
- Received Shot # 1 for COVID-19
- Prepared 100 collection boxes for the sock drive
- Proposed marriage to Lovely
- Entered two pieces of art into the Emerging Perspectives art show at Tall Grass
- Began sorting socks
- Joined OASIS Board of Directors
- Drove Lovely to Rolling Meadows and Island Lake twice
- Attended 10 Lions Board and Member meetings
- Bought a Marriage License
- Vaccination #2
- Picked up socks from Walmart & Meijers
- Shopped for a wedding dress, and suit
- Sorted 23,000 pairs of socks into Men’s, Women’s and Children’s
- Delivered Easter Food baskets with Lions
- Hiked the trail between Frankfort and Mokena
- Made funeral arrangements for Freddie
- Attended Freddie’s funeral
- Married Lovely
- Met with the Stray Bar Wine club 6 times
- Drained and cleaned the pond
- Visited Holland Michigan Tulip Festival
- Planted the 2021 Monet Vision ‘Gold Rush’
- Installed anti bird netting over Lovely’s pickle patch
- Spent three days at the family farm
- Launched my Wurst Fest Ticket sale drive via mail.
- Went to the Lithuanian Embassy in Chicago for Lovely’s birth certificate
- Spent 8 hours in the ER with major abdominal pain to learn I passed a kidney stone.
- Went to Ray Bodnar’s funeral mass
- Took my grand daughter to see ‘Van Gogh Immersed’ in downtown Chicago
- Drove to Michigan City, IN to get immigration documents signed
- Attended brother Bill’s 90 bd party
- Attended Artist’s reception for ‘Into the Light’ with Intarsia piece.
- Visited Brookfield Zoo
- Replaced the rear shocks on the Death Star
- Placed two Intarsia pieces into a local salon for display
- Marched in the Frankfort Labor Day Parade
- Bought new hearing aids
- Started Lovely on a 24 session regimen at the Chiropractor.
- Applied to get State of Illinois special Medicaid program for Lovely
- Completed ‘Night Hunter’ and put it on display in our house.
- Visited Lincoln Park Zoo with Lovely
- Collected money for Lions Candy Day
- Walked many miles with Lovely
- Attended Lion Les Egbert’s funeral mass
- Hiked Little Red School House White Oak Trail
- Hiked LRS Black Oak Trail
- Hosted and cooked for family Thanksgiving
- Designed a new Christmas Card, and had them printed
- Sent 160 cards
- Spent a week at Island Lake cat sitting
- Launched the 2021 Winter Coat collection
- Collected money at Jewel for turkeys for Thanksgiving and Christmas
- Delivered 550 coats to FTFP, SSCC, TL, SA, MM, NLTFP
- Refinanced the house
- Hosted and cooked for Family Christmas
- Attended Boyz Nite out Christmas party with wives.
- Wrote 182 posts on GrumpaJoesPlace.
- Read 56 books
- Watched three hundred movies
- Stayed on KETO diet for nine months
- Attended Library Volunteer Night meeting as Lion
- Spent untold hours gazing into space and wasting time.
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