Lakeview Center today

 

This is what remains of the downstairs of the Lakeview Center...flooded from Hurricane Helen, but needing much more repair than just the flood damage due to inadequate repairs after a fire years ago. The reflections as I looked through the door were pretty strong, sorry.

There were still two mallards in the swimming pool.

Various Black Mountain town employees have made the lunch site upstairs into open offices since their own offices haven't been repaired from flooding yet. All this falls into the city's budget, while the fire house also needs to be updated.

But many seniors come to pick up a lunch still just inside the door.

Malinda (who didn't want her photo taken) hands out the lunches most of the time.

Many of us from the western North Carolina mountains are wearing shirts and jackets to encourage each other as the long haul of rebuilding after the hurricane continues.

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Personal update:

If you missed my replies to comments, or visits to blogs, it's because I was dealing with pneumonia, which came on suddenly Wednesday night, then to hospital for 2 nights. I came home Saturday afternoon, a bit weaker, but still getting more meds and lots of rest, then rebuilding energy! It's a job sometimes

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Today's quote:

To have and not to give is often worse than to steal. -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, writer (1830-1916)

Today's Art:

Frida Kahlo, with Diego Rivera painting the mural Nightmare of war, Dream of peace, Mexico, 1952

Family Album:

Zulieka Granger Swasey, "Dear Nan," Gummy's mother 1858-1935. My great grandmother.