The Unexpected

Here is mother pictured at her Saturday night party at the rehab facility. You can tell she loved it. Then there were three others who look like her descendants loitering around the halls. They look like a cross between Patti and the Chipmunks. Of any of the family who could be in a rehab facility, we would not have guessed it would be mother.

 Father turned 88 the same day. We celebrated at Robin's on Sunday night.

Jeff and I had a last supper at the Pizza Factory before he moved to Texas. He has now reached his destination. The only thing I have found is a duracell battery in the grass and father's home health nurse found a tie tack that I happen to know is Stephen's. Hopefully that is all they left behind. He never planned to move before James left for his mission.

I finished the binding on my sampler quilt what with all the sitting time I've had with mother. It is a miracle the whole is finished.

 

October Weather

In my experience the reunion of long-ago friends is likely to be average. But, not this weekend. Despite this norm, I spent a lovely visit with my true and steady girlhood friend, Karen (also). She continues strong, comic, and heartfelt. Scott ran the marathon and she hoped to get together. I was eager to rejoin. I spent a happy hour with her on Saturday evening during a day of running to and fro across a couple states. I loved engaging. Her husband came home and we kept it up. He is a man who will engage. They are normal in the best way. The next morning they came to the homestead to rejoin with my parents and enjoy a conference brunch featuring this coffee cake, fruit, bacon and eggs, and sausage. Jeff and James arrived at 10 on the dot following Karen and Scott. Sadie Ann enjoyed such a morning of sofa dwelling. We took some snaps, spouted commentary, and ate m&ms from the knock-off Beatrix Potter harvest dish. I had a bag of magazines ready to send with the travellers and forgot. The magazines are now on mother's hospital tray as we receive rain in St. George. The next morning, mother fell on the slick driveway and fractured her pelvis and her elbow. We are warm inside. Mother sleeps.