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.

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!

I can’t remember.

All those little sparks jumping up from the water!

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.)

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.

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.

I’m looking out the window (now).

We play games (activities for seniors at Alpine Nursing Home) but I’m all sleepy all the time.  They may come (for me) and I’m asleep.

(Now) I’m rocking back and forth (in the companion chair with it’s four small wheels). I love the way it (the companion chair) rocks back and forth.

To Kill a Mockingbird and Dr. Martin Luther King’s book.

(Yes) Doug looks good.

I’m good (also).

The birds and squirrels are always outside my window.  They all come to eat and do acrobats! I’m never bored.

As a child? Playing with my doll.  I adopted Edith’s dolls. I had them after Edith. Then Anna Jane got the dolls. They probably all broke with her.  She was reckless. She didn’t sit and hold them.  She was running around and throwing them up in the air.

I’m very alert today.  I’m reading books.

Vaughn (was here).

Everything around here (Alpine Nursing Home) looks so nice. I’m lucky. I don’t have any pain at all.