Maria and I called our regular Friday night bingo game at the Mansion, a full and very boisterous house for the game, we ran out of bingo cards. Afterwards, we stopped by the Activity Room, and Madeline and Alice were watching Wheel Of Fortune. Maria sat down to chat with them, Red went to work.

This picture struck me as emblematic. We were five minutes late arriving, and I think the warming weather is getting spirits to soar. There was a minor uprising in protest, they wanted to get the game going, we were greeted with table-pounding and many demands to get moving. We got moving.

The residents were in a boisterous mood.

It was a special night, a fun night. When we got started, the tables were full, we ran out of cards. Almost everybody won and got a prize. The crowds are getting bigger at Bingo, and we are becoming skilled at keeping order, helping people who need it, and keeping the game going.

Before the Mansion, I never once played bingo, life is deliciously strange.