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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

The Administrator’s Note

- pp. 2-3

Celebrating February -p.3

Monthly Birthdays &

Anniversaries - p. 4

Bowling News - p. 5

Kings In A Corner - p. 6

Employee of the Month

& Voting Information - p. 7

Our New Employees - p. 8

Our New Residents - p. 9

Meet Your Neighbor - p. 10

Kathy’s Corner - p. 11

Snippet of the Month

- p. 12

Announcements

- pp. 12-13

Jokes, Riddles & Poems

Section - pp.13-14

THE

CHATTEBOX FEBRUARY 2017 ISSUE

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The Administrator’s Note

Welcome Dear February,

February is that middle month. Not yet the hot and sunny

climax of the year, but certainly not the very busy

beginning of the winter season either, with all its fresh

crisp air and holiday hustle. That lull in the middle. Kind of

like that middle child. The

one who often times gets

the diminished attention

from the parents. We all

know it, we all try to

be equal, but that just

seems to be the way it is.

The first child is the very

beginning of the adventure where all our hopes and

dreams get placed. The last is…well…the last, and that

can be a wonderful thing. The last is also the baby, and

will always be the baby, which for that child, holds its own

benefits and special place in the parent’s heart. But then

it happens, the unpredictable, the surprised awakening,

when that middle child breaks out and makes a name for

themselves. “We never saw that coming, they were

always so in the background”.

(To be continued on page 3)

“Never underestimate

the power and potential

of the perceived lull

in the middle.”

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Celebrating

February

Love the Bus Month

Mend a Broken Heart Month

Spunky Old Broads Month

Candy-Making Day February 1

Ice Cream for Breakfast Day

February 4

Weatherman’s Day February 5

Celebration of Love Week

February 12–18

Valentine’s Day February 14

Diesel Engine Day February 23

For Pete’s Sake Day February 26

The Administrator’s Note (Cont’d.)

Just as that seemingly dormant

stick shows no promise and then

spring comes and the plant

emerges with a plume of life and

color, so too that middle child, that

middle month has promise. Never

underestimate the power and

potential of the perceived lull in the

middle. You just never know what

that time may allow you to

accomplish, or if it is a person,

what they may flower into.

Happy Middle to All,

- Dave

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February Birthday Celebrant

Winona R.— Feb. 8th

Gertrude O.—Feb. 14th

Ginny B.— Feb. 25th

Have a very happy

birthday!!!!

Staff Birthdays

Jerrid—Feb. 5th

Cariana—Feb. 9th

Alexxys—Feb. 11th

Asha—Feb. 19th

Enjoy your day!!!!!

Staff Anniversaries

Dashai—Feb. 1st—2nd yr.

Dawn—Feb. 15th—2nd yr.

Cathy—Feb. 1st—7th yr.

Congratulations!!!!!

February Birthday Celebrant

Winona R.— Feb. 8th

Gertrude O.—Feb. 14th

Ginny B.— Feb. 25th

Have a very happy

birthday!!!!

Staff Birthdays

Jerrid—Feb. 5th

Cariana—Feb. 9th

Alexxys—Feb. 11th

Asha—Feb. 19th

Enjoy your day!!!!!

Staff Anniversaries

Dashai—Feb. 1st—2nd yr.

Dawn—Feb. 15th—2nd yr.

Cathy—Feb. 1st—7th yr.

Congratulations!!!!!

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Bowling News Our bowlers’ average scores from last month: Anne: 121 Bernice B.: 145 Dot: 149 Florence: 113 Hank: 162 Joanne: 128 Pauline O.: 131 Peg: 86 Phyllis: 117 Vivian: 139

Great game!

Everyone is welcome, so please come and join in the fun!!!

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Kings In A Corner

Our card players score board: Marie: 1 Pauline: 2 Dot: 2

Game on!

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Employee of the Month Voting Information:

March Employee of the Month voting

will be collected 1 hour before and after the Resident Council Meeting,

scheduled on February 21 at

3p.m.. We’ll be providing you a print-out of our staff’s pictures with their names on it to help iden-

tify the staff member that you would like to vote for. The ballots and drop box will

be set on the activity table.

Thank you very much.

Employee of the Month

She is very pleasant and helpful to us (residents).

Keep up the good work, Gwen!!!

Gwen Grant—Nursing

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Our New Employees

Welcome to the Abington family!!

Thiyonna Royals

Dietary

Tyler Eichelbaum

Dietary

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Our New Residents

Audrey Penn

of Room 131B,

born and raised in

New York.

Larry Zelinski

of Room 132,

born and raised

in Danielsville, PA

Welcome to the Abington family,

Audrey & Larry!!!

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Meet Your Neighbor

Wesley Aro of Room 211A

Wesley was born and raised in Baltimore, MD, and moved to Jersey City, NJ after marrying his wife of 65 years. They have 2 children, 5 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. He worked at an aircraft carrier in the Navy, which he went off to at the age of 23. During his time in the service, he traveled to the South Pacific. Once he returned home, his occupation was building airplanes and eventually working at the Post Office. His hobbies are woodwork and drawing. He enjoys ceramics painting and Bible Study with Dave nowadays. He said if he can still travel, he would like visit Hawaii again. He likes living at Abington because he has the freedom to enjoy the things he likes to do. We love to have you here, Wes!!!

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Kathy’s Corner

The Story Of Kate

By Katherine Wismer LPN DORC

In our last chapter, they had just arrived at the Grand Floridian. They got unpacked in their rooms and now it was time to explore. Kate had gotten a scooter and she was try-ing it out around the hotel before they went to the Magic Kingdom. Kate did well, maneuvering the scooter around the floors with Rex riding shotgun — until they made it to the lobby where Amanda heard a crash! Oh my goodness, a crowd gathered around the giant gingerbread house and sure enough there was Kate smack dab on the side of the gingerbread house. She wasn’t hurt, just her pride. Where was Rex? Oh no! He had a big piece of gingerbread house in his mouth and he looked quite pleased. The game was on, Security started to chase him and we all know what happens when a dog is chased. He ran out the front door and down to the long driveway. He hopped on a Disney bus and was on his way to the park. Walter Jr. followed him and together they can be seen looking out the back window. Rex still had the gingerbread in his mouth. Kate didn’t know if she should laugh or cry. In the end, all turned out well. Rex needs to be in a harness and Kate is not al-lowed to ride the scooter without her family with her until she can operate the scooter safely. As far as the giant gin-gerbread house, it was repaired and no one was the wiser. Stay tuned for the next chapter to find out was the veil fatty.

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Announcements

LOST AND FOUND

As we have discussed dur-

ing our Resident Council, we

will have a “claim” pile of lost

items set up in the Activity

room every weekend

(Saturday to Sunday). Af-

ter a month, all unclaimed

items will be moved to “for

grabs” pile for another two

weekends. Any unclaimed

items after then will be dis-

carded.

THEME DRESS WEEK

For this month’s theme dress

week, wear ’20s Era clothes

& accessories. NOTE:

We’ll give away plenty of

tricky tray tickets for those

who participate in our

Theme Dress Week

Snippet of the Month

A Season of Fasting and Forgiveness

February is an important month in the religious calendar. February 12 brings Septuagesima Sunday, the start of the pre-Lenten season. The word Septua-gesima derives from the Latin word meaning “seventieth,” which marks the 70 days before Easter. In many countries around the world, this day heralds the start of modern-day Carnival. Yet before the wild and costumed revelry of Carnival became common-place, this long period leading up to Lent and Easter was called Shrovetide.

The term Shrovetide comes from the term shrive, which means “to hear confessions.” During the days of Lent leading up to Easter, people are supposed to go to confession, where the priests shrive—or listen to—the confessors, forgive them their sins, and offer penance. In many ways, it makes sense that Carnival grew from the Shrovetide traditions. After all, Carnival is a time of wild and reckless merrymaking, with many revelers accumulating sins. Revelers could then con-fess their accumulated sins and be forgiven in time for Lent.

The Lenten season not only focuses on confession but it is also a period of fasting. The term Carnival de-rives from the words carne levare, meaning “to re-move meat,” signaling this traditional Lenten dietary prohibition. Most people are familiar with the term Mardi Gras, meaning “Fat Tuesday,” which falls the day before Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Few are familiar with the other name of this day, Shrove Tuesday, or with the other name of this day, Pancake Tuesday. As the last day before the fasting season of Lent, Shrove Tuesday is the traditional day to gorge oneself on the rich and fatty foods forbidden during Lent, such as pancakes. Spain calls this day the dia de la tortilla, or omelet day, and many celebrate by eating omelets made with sausage and pork fat. Of course, all indulgences come to an end on Ash Wednesday, when Lent, fasting, and penance begin in earnest.

Announcements

LOST AND FOUND

As we have discussed during

our Resident Council, we will

have a “claim” pile of lost items

set up in the Activity room eve-

ry weekend (Saturday to Sun-

day). After a month, all un-

claimed items will be moved to

“for grabs” pile for another two

weekends. Any unclaimed items

after then will be discarded.

THEME DRESS WEEK

For this month’s theme dress

week, wear your favorite RED

COLOR & HEART PRINT clothes

& accessories.

NOTE: We’ll give away plenty

of tricky tray tickets for those

who participate in our Theme

Dress Week

SUPER BOWL SUNDAY

Ready to root for your favorite

team? Join us in the Activity

Room for a fun Super Bowl gath-

ering!

VALENTINE’S DAY

PARTY

Dress in Red & Heart print

clothes and come join us for fun

at our Valentine’s Day Party.

Check your calendar for details.

OSCAR ACADEMY

AWARDS NIGHT

Join us in our social on Sunday

morning to discuss the Oscar

night while having some hot

chocolate or coffee .

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Jokes, Riddles & Poems Section:

Valentine Humor

Candy Love Four-year-old Sam loved candy almost as much as his mom Sally did. He and Daddy had given her a beautiful heart-shaped box of chocolates for Valen-tine's Day. A few days later Sam was eyeing it, wish-ing to have a piece of it. As he reached out to touch one of the big pieces, Sally said to him, "If you touch it, then you have to eat it. Do you understand?" "Oh, yes," he said, nodding his head. Suddenly his little hand patted the tops of all the pieces of candy. "Now I can eat them all." *****************************

Dream A young woman was taking an afternoon nap. After she woke up, she told her husband, "I just dreamed that you gave me a pearl necklace for Valentine's day. What do you think it means?" "You'll know tonight," he said. That evening, the man came home with a small package and gave it to his wife. Delighted, she opened it--only to find a book entitled "The meaning of dreams". ****************************** Valentine Cards

A guy walks into a post office one day to see a mid-dle-aged, balding man standing at the counter me-thodically placing "Love" stamps on bright pink enve-lopes with hearts all over them. He then takes out a perfume bottle and starts spraying scent all over them.

Announcements (cont’d)

MEN’S SOCIAL

Calling out all the men out

there, the Men’s Social is

back! A very nice gentle-

man, Tom, from one of the

local church, Cornerstone in

Easton, will be coming to

join us. Please check your

calendar for more details.

ARTS & CRAFTS

Calling all our artists & craft-

ers out there! We’d like to

take pictures of all your

beautiful work. We will post

them in the Activity Connec-

tion for display!

PROJECT MAKING

We’re on a project making

mode again this month!!!

We have lined up another

set of great projects to

make this year.

WE’RE IN FACEBOOK!

In case you or your family is not aware, we have a Facebook page! Search for ‘Abington Manor at Morgan Hill’ and Like us

WE’RE ON THE WEB!

Our monthly newsletter and

calendar is now available in

our website. Go to http://

theabingtonmanor.com/ and

follow the Quick Links.

Announcements (cont’d)

ACTIVITY STATIONS

We have set up tables at

the Activity Room with vari-

ety of activities to choose

from. Please check them

out, have some fun and

earn as many Tricky Tray

Tickets as you can!!!

ARTS & CRAFTS

Calling all our artists &

crafters out there! We’d like

to take pictures of all your

beautiful work. We will post

them in the Activity Connec-

tion for display!

PROJECT MAKING

We’re on a project making

mode again this month!!!

We have lined up another

set of great projects to

make this year.

WE’RE IN FACEBOOK!

In case you or your family is not aware, we have a Facebook page! Search for ‘Abington Manor at Morgan Hill’ and Like us

WE’RE ON THE WEB!

Our monthly newsletter and

calendar is now available in

our website. Go to http://

theabingtonmanor.com/ and

follow the Quick Links.

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Jokes, Riddles & Poems Section (cont’d):

Valentine Humor (cont’d)

His curiosity getting the better of him, he goes up to the balding man and asks him what he is doing. The man says, "I'm sending out one thousand Valentine cards signed, 'Guess who?'"

“But why?" asks the man. "I'm a divorce lawyer," the man replies. *******************************

Wish

A smart, handsome and sexy young man dressed in the most sophisticated man-ner walked into the bar. He noticed a woman staring at him without blinking her eyes with an open mouth. Flattered, he approached the woman and said in his sexiest deep voice - "I'll do anything you wish, beautiful lady, for just $20 but on one condition." The woman was trapped in a moment and asked as if in a trance - "What's your condition?" The young man replied, "Tell me your wish in just three words." After a long pause, woman opened her purse, counted the money and handed it to the man along with her address. She then looked deeply into his eyes and whispered, "Clean my house." ********************************* Shy A very shy guy goes into a pub on Valentine's Day night and sees a beautiful woman at the bar. After a long struggle with his shyness, he finally managed to walk over to her and asked her politely, "Um, would you mind if I give you com-pany?" She made a furious face and yelled at the top of her lungs, "How dare you asked me to sleep with you tonight?" Everyone in the pub started staring at the man who was completely embarrassed. After a few minutes, woman walked over to him and apologized - "You see I am a student of psychology and studying how people respond to embarrassing situations. I am sorry but I was just doing my experiment!" The young man suddenly gave a loud yell, "What do you mean $200?"