I can’t remember where I am.  I don’t feel too rambunctious.  The water is ice cold. (Pause) I just finished drinking the water.

Crystal, oh yes, I saw her the other day.

It’s raining so, you can see it…very, very colorful.  Little sparks come flying off the roof.  It’s (water) running so fast.  It’s jumping up and down. Sobersides (Audrey’s nickname for the maintenance person at Alpine home) just rushed by.  Look at that water!

I’ve forgotten everything.  I like to go anywhere you go. It will be all right with me.  I’ve forgotten all those places.  Once I see them, I’ll remember them.

It’s so funny you don’t realize.  You can’t realize how far away you are, but you seem right here.  (Referring to my being  present on the phone but actually being 3,000 miles away in California.)

I like all the inventions. (Referring to all the telecommunications invented since she was a child on the farm.)

I got my books and a nice warm place.

George, he’s nice.  I’m glad Dawn likes him.

Oh, I’m looking at a bird.  He is brown and yellow and tiny. (This bird) Yellow head and brown body.  He looks good. Very little. About like a hummingbird.  He is still there. Eating from bag of birdseed. He’s got a yellow head.

Amber just called me and she will pick me up to take me to WalMart.  She is coming for me now.

I am having trouble with this chair.  Now (wheel) chairs have the lock near the top, near the handle bar.

Yes, I am so happy.

I am glad for him with Carol.  He’s where he should be.

(Yes) Doug looks good.

I’m good (also).

The birds and squirrels are always outside my window.  They all come to eat and do acrobats! I’m never bored.

As a child? Playing with my doll.  I adopted Edith’s dolls. I had them after Edith. Then Anna Jane got the dolls. They probably all broke with her.  She was reckless. She didn’t sit and hold them.  She was running around and throwing them up in the air.

I’m very alert today.  I’m reading books.

Vaughn (was here).

Everything around here (Alpine Nursing Home) looks so nice. I’m lucky. I don’t have any pain at all.

Dad saw this on TV. He said, “I know that. I learned it in first grade” and he recited it.

“Why am I here?  I don’t want to be in this big house.  I don’t want to be in this crazy house.”

(Mother was very alert.  Doug and Mother, in her wheel chair, went for a stroll down to see Lisa, Audrey’s granddaughter, Lisa  in the Administrative office.  Lisa said she has not seen her this alert before.  Lisa explained to Mother as to why Mother was in the Nursing Home.