Well, I figured I might contribute today....actually, I think I am just avoiding having to clean the blinds downstairs. I started on the project yesterday afternoon and got one out of four in the family room done. So the family room is all torn apart until I get finished. The cable guy (hopefully not Jim Carey) is coming between 10 and 12 so hopefully I'll get done by then.

Had an interesting trip down to Sacto and Fremont this weekend. We were sort of going to celebrate Gramma's birthday and check on her situation there. The decision made is to leave her where she is for now. There are two people in the church that check on her every day and feel that if she was taken out of her home she would be miserable. Edith, her next door neighbor, died a few weeks ago and her neighbor across the street that looked out for her has moved. She is losing some memory and reasoning power. Leland, her grandson, had come to take her out and she said that this nice boy had taken her out but it couldn't have been Leland because Leland had blond hair. Dad reminded her that Leland had grown up and his hair had darkened but it was in truth Leland that came to see her. She got him mixed up with Ken from Jeopardy saying that he (Leland, the nice boy) had been on TV. She also said she had a visit from someone that she thought might be Anne's boyfriend. We pointed out that that was Peter, Anne's husband. Anyhow, as you can see, she gets a bit confused. She also is into reading through and sometimes responding to bogus "you've won a prize" offers that ask for money to verify it. Very scary! I went through all of them and threw them away but it was very interesting and frightening to see what they asked...mother's maiden name, ss # etc. Talk about identity theft. And she isn't thinking clearly enough to see through it. We have all emphasized to her NOT even reading or opening them but I'm not sure she will be very compliant since she insists that she has never sent them any money but I read her notes on the ones I threw away that she had sent them checks. Worrisome! Dad and I will probably try to get down there every quarter for a weekend just to keep an eye on it and are keeping in touch with the people from the ward.

We then went down and spent Sunday night with the Carliles. Jenny is now a senior in high school and is a candidate for Homecoming Queen. She is quite into staging and has been working on productions at Great America during the summer. Monday, we had some drama on the Nimitz when motorcycle flipped right in front of us..landing the driver in front of our car. We blocked the lane and Dad went up to help the guy. He was probably lucky and got off with just an injury to his shoulder. We also went and found our old apartment in Alameda...where David came home from the hospital.

Well, the cable guy came early and has fixed the problem...no sound coming out! So I guess I'd better face the blinds. I'm sort of on a "spring" cleaning kick in the Fall! We are flying out on Friday to Utah until Tuesday morning to catch a couple of Anne's games. We'll take pictures to put on the blog!

Actually in line with Marnie's resolve...I'll put a couple of my Europe pictures on today...

Love,

Mom