Audrey: I’m thinking about Vaughn. He is crazy about tractors. He is always polishing it.

Also, the memoirs (copies of Glimpses of the Past: Morning Conversations with Audrey) are very interesting. I’ve got all the papers in my bookcase. I sit here and rock back and forth in my little roll-around (companion chair). My rocker is all I need. I can get around all flat spaces. It is so handy. I am so comfortable.

I’m here with my bookcase. There are three shelves and they are loaded. I got a big dictionary and a big Bible and my addresses (address book) which is necessary so I don’t want to throw it away. It’s very necessary for me when I want to look for something. I haven’t finished The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw.

Spen and Carol were here.

I’ll always remember and be amused by Brian, Jr’s response after I read The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat, he said “That’s impossible. That can’t happen. They can’t eat each other up!”  I explained to him that it’s a fairy tale.

Audrey: Yes, but no. I never stopped to realize it was gone. I never thought about it. I liked MacDonald; it is such a beautiful name.

Audrey: Oh, I can’t remember, but I have it all written down somewhere. I just finished my breakfast. Oh yes, I feel much rested.

Audrey: Yes, he’s coming. I go and I go, but then I forget where I’ve been. I always have.

(Referring to the caretakers) Oh, yes. They are all good and kind. I like them all. I haven’t had anybody that’s been bad!

I sit here and put my head back and fall asleep. I’m happy here in my little (companion) chair.

I’m looking at Chicken Little, yellow cover with paisley necktie. I had my bunny on the bed when I left. When I came back, there was a chicken here with the bunny. He says  The Night Before Christmas.

Audrey: I look at these books. I want to read my own books over and over again. Caty, A Biography of Catharine Littlefield Greene by John F. and Janet A. Stegeman (is a book I love). I gave talks on her life.

(Audrey was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her DAR chapter was the Catharine Littlefield Greene chapter. It broke Audrey’s heart when her local chapter was dissolved because of lack of attracting young members as the older members were dying off).

Audrey: She was the wife of Nathaniel Greene (who was second in command to George Washington during the American Revolution). Everyone thought the world of her. She never let herself grow up. She always wanted to be a little girl. All she wanted was to be noticed and get a lot of attention. Greene was so busy with the (American) Revolution, but wherever Greene went she went with him. (The Greene’s home is a historical building right here in Coventry where we often had our Daughters of the American Revolution Meetings.)

(I’m looking at) Emily Dickinson’s large print book. I want to read all the old books again. I wish Emily Dickinson’s three books were in large print. Mae Evarone sent these three books to me many years ago.

Audrey: I see Vaughn all the time. We had a walk around. He took me in my (companion) chair on the cement sidewalk. (We had) flashlights and looked at everything. I see people all the time. It’s nice and sunny. Everybody keeps coming and going.

I won twenty five cents at Bingo. I have a special smaller table in the art gallery dining room.

Dawn has a boyfriend in Florida. She has a brand new house. Spen and Carol are up in New Hampshire. It’s nice and sunny as it can be. Amber, she pops in every once in a while.  She gets my books in the right places.

Audrey: I know quite a few of the birds. I can see three or four squirrels playing on a tree. They run up and down. They run up and down on the rock. Now they are all pulling on a blue piece of cloth. They are having a great time on the tree. The blue thing is not a cloth. It is an oblong stiff thing. There is a bird on the ground, a black and gray one.

Vivian, she is gone (not my roommate anymore). She comes and goes. I see her in the hall.

 Audrey:  I’m resting. There was a lot of things to do this week. We had a party. We did things. Oh. I’ve lost my shoe! I’m in my chair and I can’t see it.

(Then Mother and I spontaneously recited Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling merrily together and ended with a good laughter.)