Mom was in her room dozing when I got there about 645. She stayed dozed off while I got her some ice and cleaned up a little. Denise at work had sent her a flower arrangement featuring sunflowers so I put those on the table. I finally said something after I got settled down and she woke right up and said how easy it was to doze off around there.
She said some singers from Flint Groves had been there at 10 this morning. They must have played bingo at 2 since she later said Bingo wasn't there and she was worried about him. She said she didn't want to go to his room to check on him because she didn't want to embarrass him but that "if he don't show up tomorrow I'm going to go check on him I don't care what he thinks".
Then she got on a sore subject. "My supper made me mad" she said. She had checked off a turkey and cheese sandwich but they had marked through it and gave her some mystery meat instead which smelled awful. "I said it could be an old dead cat for all I know." She said she went the rounds with them and finally a CNA got her a pimento cheese sandwich. I told her to always ask for something like that when she doesn't have something she can eat. She said the CNA told her that her family had requested her meals be ground up "but I told her my family didn't have anything to do with this" which is true.
She said as we were walking out the back door "as far as meals are concerned they've gone beserk". She said Preacher Huffstetler came by again today. As we went into the sun she said "I'd know I was in the sun even if I was blind." It quickly went under a cloud though. She talked about Pat coming by last night and having ice cream out back with her.
I kept hearing what I thought was a bird in the bushes but mom said it might be a snake then she recalled killing a snake in the year before her stroke by beating it to death. "I didn't want him to go under the house" she said. I remember how the snake looked when she was finished, and I told her if she ever didn't want me to do something to just tell me, don't beat me with the picker upper or something.
Then she went back to the supper incident. "I'm afraid Donald mighta made a scene if he'd been here at suppertime" she said. She had milk but they didn't open her carton so she never got any of it. It came 730 and I had to go so we started inside. Mr. Neely was getting the garden hose and I asked him to squirt mom with it. She said no but I said it would be fun. "Not for me it wouldn't" she said.
