21:11...
Pretty laid-back day. I didn't get up until about 09:00. Mom, on her
eighty-fifth birthday, had already been out for her walk and eaten her
breakfast. We pretty much did nothing until mom fixed lunch, grilled chicken breasts
and jello with pineapple and carrots and onions and a fresh cucumber in
vinegar. Good stuff, so we both decided to take a short nap. So I slept from about 13:00 until 15:30. When I came downstairs, brother Jon
was on the phone, so I got to talk to him a little bit too. He had to leave
rather precipitously because Lynn had spotted an oriole in their yard...
orioles are apparently not emdemic to the area. To celebrate Mom's birthday, we went out to eat at her favorite place, we
got there before the rush. After that, we stopped by the Dollar Store and
she got some cleaning supplies. I hadn't been in one of those stores for
years, lots and lots of junk, some of it pretty cool. I talked to Karen a little while ago, her mother is doing OK, it's just that
the doc in the ER put her cast on too tight Wednesday night and of course
her arm swelled up and was quite painful until they sawed the original cast
off. And now we're watching Robin Williams in Ms. Doubtfire. I'm not really
getting into it, but I guess that I'll give it a chance before I give up on
it and go to bed.