Charleston Visit April 2010
I am trying something new for this post. I uploaded my photos to Picasa and I am going to try to post them using links. Let's see how it goes.
Michael and William accompanied Drew and I to Illinois Friday for our monthly visit to June and George.
We had our tea/coffee party of McDonald's coffees, both hot and cold, hot cocoa, and teas, also both hot and cold. June always gets the table ready for us to talk and drink around. We looked at recent photos on Drew's new iPad. They are easier to see than on his little phone screen.
Next we went to visit George at the nursing home. He had had a shower that morning and was in a good mood and awake. He kept talking about First Class postage and needing to send a letter.
On our way back to June's Drew stopped at Taco Bell to buy lunch for us. We ate at home around the table.
Michael had made arrangements ahead of time to buy Grandma's 2006 PT Cruiser during this visit. He was very excited to have a newer vehicle and June (who can't drive any longer due to her eyesight) is happy to have kept the car in the family and not have to go to the expense of advertising it for sale this summer or keeping up on the insurance.
Their transaction completed, we moved on to the next job at hand. June has been storing memorabilia in a U-Store-It facility and the monthly fee was dear. In addition to our visiting, we came to move the boxes and furniture to her garage, which Drew and his sister and I had organized the month before just for that reason. We borrowed cousin Travis' pickup truck and worked for two and a half hours. Everything fit in the garage. Drew turned in the lock for the storage unit and that chapter is finished.
At the nursing home there was a large glass cage with birds. The turtle doves were taking turns sitting on their nest. The finches were beautiful.
The view along Lincoln was beautiful with the trees in bloom. And the clouds were fluffy and white.
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Michael and William accompanied Drew and I to Illinois Friday for our monthly visit to June and George.
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We had our tea/coffee party of McDonald's coffees, both hot and cold, hot cocoa, and teas, also both hot and cold. June always gets the table ready for us to talk and drink around. We looked at recent photos on Drew's new iPad. They are easier to see than on his little phone screen.
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| From Charleston Visit |
Next we went to visit George at the nursing home. He had had a shower that morning and was in a good mood and awake. He kept talking about First Class postage and needing to send a letter.
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| From Charleston Visit |
On our way back to June's Drew stopped at Taco Bell to buy lunch for us. We ate at home around the table.
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| From Charleston Visit |
Michael had made arrangements ahead of time to buy Grandma's 2006 PT Cruiser during this visit. He was very excited to have a newer vehicle and June (who can't drive any longer due to her eyesight) is happy to have kept the car in the family and not have to go to the expense of advertising it for sale this summer or keeping up on the insurance.
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| From Charleston Visit |
Their transaction completed, we moved on to the next job at hand. June has been storing memorabilia in a U-Store-It facility and the monthly fee was dear. In addition to our visiting, we came to move the boxes and furniture to her garage, which Drew and his sister and I had organized the month before just for that reason. We borrowed cousin Travis' pickup truck and worked for two and a half hours. Everything fit in the garage. Drew turned in the lock for the storage unit and that chapter is finished.
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| From Charleston Visit |
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| From Charleston Visit |
At the nursing home there was a large glass cage with birds. The turtle doves were taking turns sitting on their nest. The finches were beautiful.
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| From Charleston Visit |
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| From Charleston Visit |
The view along Lincoln was beautiful with the trees in bloom. And the clouds were fluffy and white.
