Audrey: I don’t ever remember talking about it. Someone in there was against war. Maybe, it was Grandma’s father. I can’t remember. But someone.

Audrey: Love you, Heather.

Audrey: Everything is going fine. We just finished breakfast.

Audrey: “Oh, she’s awful old now. She walks slowly with the walker. She is 102!  There is also someone in here who is 103 years!”

Audrey: Children are just getting out of a white van. Children come here on special days. We talk with the older children.

I have the best window.  It has pretty woods and stones outside. I have birds here as Spencer put the bird feeder right behind my window. I sit here and look out at squirrels, birds and butterflies. It looks wet so it will kind of be a wet day.

Audrey: Gramma would open the cellar door and would go down a few steps and sit on the stair and reach into an area (like a shelf) where food was kept in dishes with tight covers.  In this cold area, she would reach in and get food out.

Audrey: We didn’t have any trash to throw away.

Audrey: Oh, all the houses I lived in were big. Now I live in a mansion (Alpine Nursing Home) but I only have one room, but it is enough. [Laughter] I’m reading –oh I can’t remember–wait a minute. I’ve got to back-up in my chair and go over and get it. The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw. Do you know Tom Brokaw? That Tom Brokaw’s book is cute. I like the picture on the front cover. I guess it is a couple who are saying “good-bye”. The Greatest Generation, that’s the book you sent me. The only thing that is sad is people getting killed. That drives me crazy.

I lived through all that war.

Audrey: I didn’t have any fear of them coming over here. I never had a newspaper. I hated to read about it. I was so busy with kids.

Crystal was born the day before Pearl Harbor and I was in the hospital. They closed all the curtains at night. We never got bombed. It was funny hearing the planes go over the hospital. Seems so I counted sixteen planes the first day. So I said to myself, I wonder if sixteen planes will go over tomorrow. However, after that day only a few planes went over. I was glad to be home because a hospital is where they want to bomb.