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Monthly Archives: September 2004

11 September 2004

Heather: O.K. I’ll call tomorrow. I love you.

Yes, I love you too, Heather.

12 September 2004

Heather: Hi, Mother. Today is Sunday. How do you feel?

I’m fine.  Feel very good.

Spen and Carol are happy together.

I’m reading Martin Luther King, Jr.’s book  How to Love.  It is very, very, very good.  I had a hard time to put it down.  Now I have a hard time to pick it up.  I can’t reach it.

12 September 2004

Heather: An Alpine staff member will come and help you reach it, I’m sure. Tell me something about a couple of your great grandchildren.

Meagan Elizabeth is a very pretty little girl.  Meagan Elizabeth is a pretty name.

12 September 2004

Heather: The fact that Elizabeth is also a family name really adds to the name, I’m sure.

Jessica, she is a jolly little girl.  She is always dancing around and always full of life.  She is very cute too.

All (of my great grandchildren) are lovely children.  Can’t find anything wrong with any of them.

17 September 2004

Mark Ray MacDonald, Jr.

Audrey’s Great-Grandson

Mark Ray MacDonald, Jr.

Born September 17, 2004 at 8:59PM
7lbs. 6 oz
Proud parents are Tonya (née Paolilli) and Mark MacDonald

18 September 2004

Heather: Hello Mother. How have you been doing?

I can’t remember where I am.  I don’t feel too rambunctious.  The water is ice cold. (Pause) I just finished drinking the water.

Crystal, oh yes, I saw her the other day.

It’s raining so, you can see it…very, very colorful.  Little sparks come flying off the roof.  It’s (water) running so fast.  It’s jumping up and down. Sobersides (Audrey’s nickname for the maintenance person at Alpine home) just rushed by.  Look at that water!

 

18 September 2004

Heather: I love to watch the rain also. I am sure I got that from you. We have such a beautiful earth and you always said that rain cleans the earth. I still feel the same way. The earth seems so clean after a heavy rainstorm. What did you do as a kid on the farm when it rained?

I can’t remember.

All those little sparks jumping up from the water!

18 September 2004

Heather: Where would you like to go when Chuck and I come to visit you at Alpine in a couple of weeks? We have our plane tickets ready.

I’ve forgotten everything.  I like to go anywhere you go. It will be all right with me.  I’ve forgotten all those places.  Once I see them, I’ll remember them.

It’s so funny you don’t realize.  You can’t realize how far away you are, but you seem right here.  (Referring to my being  present on the phone but actually being 3,000 miles away in California.)

18 September 2004

Heather: Yes, it must be mind-boggling for you who was born on the farm in the horse and buggy days to now be in an age of computers, phones, airplanes and so much more.

I like all the inventions. (Referring to all the telecommunications invented since she was a child on the farm.)

I got my books and a nice warm place.

George, he’s nice.  I’m glad Dawn likes him.

Oh, I’m looking at a bird.  He is brown and yellow and tiny. (This bird) Yellow head and brown body.  He looks good. Very little. About like a hummingbird.  He is still there. Eating from bag of birdseed. He’s got a yellow head.

26 September 2004

Heather: Who has been to visit you lately?

Amber just called me and she will pick me up to take me to WalMart.  She is coming for me now.

I am having trouble with this chair.  Now (wheel) chairs have the lock near the top, near the handle bar.

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