Being a social person it is pretty hard not to be able to go out to the movies, the theatre, restaurants, etc., and/or meet people so one has to adapt and, luckily for me, I have made some new friends over the past 10 weeks and I don't fail to spend some time with them every day.


First there is the Lizard family: 1) Lenny the dad 3) Larry and Lonnie, the kids, always waiting at the door to come in 4) Lorraine the mother 8 & 10) daughters/sisters Linda and Liz always coming from or going to the pool--the whole family greets me and then go about their business.


2) Bonnie the butterfly who always stops doing whatever she was doing to let me admire her beauty and then she flies off.


5) There is reliable Myrtle in all her glory standing to greet me whenever I go downstairs.


6) My best friend is Lucy who lives next door to me and runs into my apartment any chance she gets. 7) And she always bullies the dalmatian who lives in the building next door.


9) No matter what time I go out Cary Crow is waiting for me near the mailboxes or it could be it is where people leave bread for him to nibble on but I prefer to think it is the former.


12) Now Benny the bird is another story as, like clockwork, he is on the walkway outside my door at 12:30 PM, sun, rain, wind or all 3 waiting for me to give him his half of orange!


11) Well, never know when my friends and I will want to take out the yacht so John keeps it in tip-top shape!