Living at Homewoods on the Willamette

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  Although the Homewoods website provides no useful daily info online (the motivation for this blog), they do an excellent job communicating with residents via fliers and memos distributed in mail boxes and by holding frequent meetings with residents. And the website does a good job at other things, such as communicating the Home woods philosophy and mission. Moreover, you won't find any raving about "the golden years" anywhere. Here are links to some of the more valuable pages of the Homewoods home page: About us https://homewoods.org/about/ About the Homewoods nonprofit heritage https://homewoods.org/about/nonprofit-heritage/ About the history of Homewoods https://homewoods.org/about/local-history/ Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

 Perhaps the most powerful feature of this blog is how it can offer much more than the who?what?when? of an activity. Below are three exanples of my approach to this. Providing trailers to film https://cdlivhw.blogspot.com/2024/04/saturday-movie.html Providing instructions to games https://cdlivhw.blogspot.com/2024/04/wednesday-games.html Providing Internet information to entertainment http://cdlivhw.blogspot.com/2024/04/monday-entertainment.html Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

  Select labels: art ... articles and websites of interest to seniors audbk ... audio books cdart ... articles and web pages I wrote for the blog en ... entertainment ex ... examples of blog features fav ... personal favorites hi ... health issues hum ... humor hw ... Homewoods information and policies hwd ... discussion and other group activity  hwg ... games  hwx ... exercising  mov ... movies mus ... music newres ... for new residents ssv ... videos produced by my company Small Screen Video ts ... text to speech projects vid ... other videos  Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

  If you want to comment on a post, use the comment link at end of post, on the left. (It's a "enter comment" form in READ MORE mode.) If you have general comments  or suggestions about the blog, use the contact form: Open the menu (those 3 lines at upper left corner), fill in the form using your name and email, write your message, and then hit the send button. It will come to me. If you want to contact staff, use the link on the menu. Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

 A variety of games are scheduled as I write (4/2024) and this can change. I'll keep the list updated. Need directions how to play? Rummikub https://youtu.be/P9lThha3BLY?si=CZM5NqNdaJKG1Ss2 Pinochle https://youtu.be/HSpIXNd5uec?si=w_EMk0D9W5xa8Tl Bunco https://youtu.be/XhQnraJx9v8?si=MrvqLS-HhmkW-Eea Bingo https://youtu.be/nGCEpUAnkSg?si=hNVUkXDxsJU_pFqL Bean bag baseball https://youtu.be/NL2iAfFgcNo?si=R8H5YS5D9qG1V3fI Mexican train dominoes https://youtu.be/jxeIR8HCSYI?si=zaya6xa4L7jlqf7y Various Memory games You can try and start a new game. Find an available day/time on the activity calendar, use the link below to send an email to the activities director, describing your game and time. She will make a flier and distribute it to residents. (I suggest you run the idea by her first.)  VDavidson@homewoods.org Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

https://youtu.be/DT4trFmhfUo?si=hrv-woD9vHcr4vKR From the librarian: Book checkout is done by signing up in the notebook at the station under the clock. Return books to the bin next to that station and enter the date returned.  No due dates or time limits.  Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

  Using this blog depends on activating links.This is easy to do. (Don't know what a link is? It usually begins with http). On a phone or tablet, put your index finger on the link and hold it there. A menu will pop up. Touch Open. On a computer, right click the link. A menu will open. Select Go to or something similar. Hey, that's all there is to it! Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

A very short version of the menu. For details, ask for a menu in the diningroom.  BREAKFAST BUFFET 9-10 a.m. Scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, hash browns, fruit, toast, juice, coffee. LUNCH 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Soup: s oup of the day, yesterday's soup. Salad: house, chef, harvest, Oriental chicken, chicken Caesar. Sandwiches: turkey, roast beef or ham; club, BLT, tuna, French dip, classic Reuben, Philly cheese steak, egg salad, open faced tuna melt, chicken salad, fish, grilled cheese; grilled hot ham, turkey, chicken or steak. Burgers: hamburger, cheeseburger, bacon cheeseburger, mushroom Swiss burger, veggie burger, patty melt. Wraps: steak, chicken. Sides: soup, potato salad, macaroni salad, coleslaw, cottage cheese, fruit, chips.  Drinks: milk, coffee, hot tea, iced tea, lemonade,  juice, hot chocolate, water. DINNER 5 - 630  Soup of the day, salad bar, choice between two entrees, fresh rolls, dessert (ice cream, cookies, specials), coffee, drink. (See daily dinner po...

   Sit & Stretch, M-F at 10 and 11 in activity room.  Get Fit with Val-Jeanne, 930, Tu W F, east diningroom. Yoga, 10, M Th, east diningroom. Weekend Walkers provides more strenuous execise, every Saturday morning, meeting in lobby at 10. A different walk location each week. You have to sign up in the activity book to participate. Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

   https://youtu.be/DT4trFmhfUo?si=hrv-woD9vHcr4vKR From the librarian: Book checkout is done by signing up in the notebook at the station under the clock. Return books to the bin next to that station and enter the date returned.  No due dates or time limits.  Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com

  Labels organize posts into categories. Using them is a powerful way to find what you want. First, open the menu (top left).  Activate the link at Label  definitions.  Find a label/category you want to explore. Let's say mus for music. On the menu, expand Labels by tapping the down pointer and then Show More. Tap the mus label. A new page lists all the posts that have a mus label. Back to top cdlivhw.blogspot.com