Although Jackie is still not 100 percent, she did go to the doctor on the 2nd of February and get officially released from the oxygen requirement, which means we can return the rental oxygen generator and oxygen tanks. Other than that, it was mostly a routine month with our normal activities. The 5th was my 79th birthday, yikes. The park had a nice Valentines dinner and party and I provided the music. We had a good time. On Saturday, the 28th, we drove down to North Las Vegas to see my brother Russ on his birthday. He is Number 3 in the line and just turned 65. His wife Zen is visiting family in the Philippines, so we took him out to lunch to celebrate his birthday.
One exciting thing for the month, one of my friends here at the park, Max, came to the trailer and asked me if I wanted a guitar. It seems that another one of our park members had asked Max to clean out their storage shed. Her husband had died and she was moving from the Co-op to go live with family. Max found two guitars in the shed and she told him, just give them to someone who can use them. Max said I was the only person in the park he knew who played guitar and would be willing to give the guitars to. I said sure, let's go look. I went with him to the shed and there was a small, kids size classical guitar with nylon strings, which was the one the husband was trying to learn to play. There was also a very old looking hard case which contained a very old looking regular guitar. However, the guitar looked to be in really good condition, so I told Max I would take both. I gave the smaller guitar to our maintenance manager's son, who is 8. His brother has a guitar and now he has one too. I took the other one home. Long story short, after I did some research, I found out that it was a 1935 Kalamazoo which was an entry brand for Gibson Guitars back before WWII. It could be worth anywhere from $1,000 to $2,000, but I am going to keep it. I cleaned it up, restrung it, and it sounds good.
Here's a few pictures from the month.
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