June 1997 - Sign of distress

 June 16, 1997

Grampa is home and very pleased to be here.  He gets around quite well with his walker.  He has finally decided he will not be able to do any of his outside projects.  But I'm sure he will come up with other thiings to do.  Aunt Gertrude spends most of her time in bed watching old movies.  Sometimes I feel like Cinderella, at the beck and call of her 2 stepsisters...

On Sat. I put the flag out and as I was backing out of the drive - to go get Grampa - I looked at the flag flying, and low and behold it was flying upside down - a sign of distress.  Well, I left it flying like that for the rest of the day.  But I didn't think it was possible to put the flag upside down.  But leave it to Gram - it was very easy...  Now, I must do a few things for Grampa - then Aunt G. needs help to straighten out her room.

This card needs no explanation!  It makes me laugh every time I read it - we've all had days like that when it feels like nothing is going right and we are overworked and tired.  But Grammie took it in stride and with humor.  I think she made sure the flag was upright after that...  :)

June 1997 - Suet Troubles

June 2, 1997

Where o where are the marshmallows?  The rock has pretty markings on it.  Gramp is now in the 2nd phase - a painful, tiring one - but he hopes to be home in a week or 10 days.  I think that will help him more than anything else.

I woke up to a noise this morning.  I thought it was Doug.  But I finally looked at the bird feeder and there was "Woody the Chuck" finishing off a brand new cake of suet.  Boy, did I ever chase him away!  Guess I'll have to bring in the suet at night...

Aunt Joanne and I are going to Vt. Tues. morn - and home on Wed. morn.  Kit is here from England and we would like to see her.  Hope things are settling in for you.  Lots of love.

June 9, 1997

This card is a switch from 2 girls in the field picking flowers.  The stars are really great!  I think we need to do more the ceiling.  I'm not going to tell Grampa - just let him be surprised at the Braman-Bopp [comet glow-in-the-dark sticker Grammie named after the real comet Hale-Bopp].

The birds are at the feeder, eating up a storm.  The suet will be all gone and I haven't found my "suet receipt" yet.  After all, I'm most 80 - phone rang - Bob's daughter, Missie - so I decided I was hungry, so now I'm eating a peanut butter and raisin sandwich with butter first on the bread.  I spent the afternoon truing to clean out bureau drawers so Aunt G. could have a place to put the stuff when she finally comes down - instead of dropping it on the floor.

Gram & I put up glow-in-the-dark star stickers on the ceiling of her closed-in porch where they often slept.  She loved being able to still look at the 'stars' at night, even though there was a roof over her head.  I love the mentions of the suet here.  She often talked about her birds and birdfeeders, and finding a good suet 'receipt' [old-fashioned word for recipe] was something she conitnued to search for.  I had forgotten about the peanut-butter and raisin sandwiches she mentions here!  It makes me happy that these little tidbits of her life are still present.