I am sitting in the living room with the doors open, just letting the house air out in this beautiful cool, dry air.   Roxie is on my lap now but keeps going from one door to the other to enjoy the sounds and smells of out doors. 

I left here at about 9:30AM.  Picked up some vitamins for Mother and some yeast so that I could start a bread tonight on my way to visit Mother.    She is doing well.   We had a great visit.   I set up her pills for the week and we talked about so many things including Uncle Henry and Gypsies.

Uncle Henry was Grandma Bowser's younger brother and Mother's Godfather.   When she came to visit me in California, we went down to the San Diego Area to visit him.   He lived in a mobile home not far from his daughter, Ellen.  Mother and I met him at his mobile home and he gently escorted, escorted is the right word, into his home and served us a drink while we waited for his granddaughter to come and lead us to Ellen's house.   He was such a gentleman and so sweet.   He died at the age of 99 years old at King Veteran's hospital.

Mother asked me if I remembered the Gypsies coming to Sheboygan Falls.    I DO remember.   When I worked at the bank in Sheboygan Falls, they came one summer.    They were just as you picture them.   Their caravan was brightly colored and they dressed in Gypsy garb.   The merchants were rather nervous as they were known for light fingers.   They did odd jobs and whatever to support themselves and stayed down in the area we called the Flats which now has several factories on it.    The wandering people have lost their way of life.    Mother and I wonder what happened to the gypsies.    I may check if I get the urge.

I went to Rocky Knoll from Mother's and had lunch with Dick.   He was still in PT when I arrived.   Bobbie got there just as we were finishing our lunch so she was there to visit with me and him while he did his OT.   He is still too weak to stand.   But he tried and did well with the other therapy they put him through.

I left at about 2:30 and came home to take a nap.  Roxie was delighted.    I spent the rest of the afternoon doing a bit of cooking and cleaning.   I decided to keep it quiet as it IS a holiday and I need one too.

So. it is close to bed time.   Tomorrow will be the beginning of getting back into a routine.


I'll send a couple of picture

God love you

Mary