46° and 35°. Raining all day. Dark all day. Vi was here for Times. I called Candy with eleven preservations for VIP dinner. There may be more. I played Pedro in evening. Two tables.

Cloudy day. I went to exercise class. They decorated here today. Looks great. I finished decorating my apartment. Jim here in evening. He brought me some cash. Angie here in evening also. I gave canned food for mailman for collection for the needy.

33° and 24°. Everything white with snow this morning. Beautiful. So clean. Jessie here to clean. She finished my tree. Nelda McCarthy called to ask how I was doing. Cindy G, Cora Bura and Carol Garman called. Vi here for Times. Debby H called in evening.

Cloudy. A little sun. Rain and snow in evening. I went for coffee and donuts in morning. Vi here. Also Rose T. I collected for church folks from Betty W ad Fred and Isabel Reinbeck. Jim N called about church.

Sunny day. I didn’t get to First Church. Jolie called at 8 AM. She and the kids have moved into a new apartment. Zack has an expensive new car. Shawn Michael had to change schools again. I talked with Jim. It is in today’s paper where Michael Sounders has bought 6.5 acres of land for $35,000 on Ore Bed Road, Philadelphia from Sunset Bluff Pines, Inc. I went to church out here in PM. Their choir had a cantata for us. Gave out fruit baskets. Carolers from First church here to sing for us in PM.

Rain, snow. 25° and 14°. Vi here. Also Angie. I went to Centennial club meeting in evening. Good turn out. Vern called in evening. Also Cheryl.

39° and 24°. Cloudy, some rain. Windy in evening. Cheryl took me to Dr. LaPoint’s. Everything okay. VIP here for Christmas dinner. Larry helped arrange tables. We had 14 for dinner. Two absent. Had four guests. Delicious turkey dinner put on by Cindy Granger.

The snow all melted this morning after the rain. I addressed first Christmas cards to mail. Vi and Angie here. The school show chorus young people from Carthage here to sing for us in evening. Excellent program. City cop Mike VanWaldick shot his girl friend’s friend on LeRay Street. Cops have looked for him all day. Ryan Dorr 26 still alive but serious. Jessica Quincy girl involved.

Cloudy all day. I went to exercise class. Good turnout. I addressed Christmas cards. Cop Mike VanWaldick gave himself up last night about 11 PM. He was at his father’s in Rodman.

36° and 34°. I washed clothes. I got Christmas card and letter and picture from Clark and Vivian Tresise. Vivian had a blood clot in her leg but is improving.

A little snow overnight. Ground white in place. Merrill and I were married sixty-nine years ago today. There was no snow then either. Sally and Vi here. Florence gave me rice pudding for supper. Good. Sue had birthday party for Vi Mowers in Metcalf room. I went.

33° and 25°. Some sun. I went to church with Jim N. Vi and Angie here in PM.

Snow, sleet, rain and a little sunshine. I went over to hospital lab for blood work. Vi went with me. Not bad walking. I gave myself Procrit shot. Vi here twice. Angie here also.

Snowing hard in morning. Cold. No exercise class as Muriel and her husband got real sick on vacation cruise. Vi here. Florence here. She isn’t too good. She had 3 liters of fluid drawn yesterday. Debby called. My blood count on the high side again. I’m to do Procrit every other week now. I called Jim. He and Walt were on way to Longway’s Restaurant for something to eat.

Cold day. Sunny part of time. Jolie called in morning. She and kids are coming for Christmas. Vi and Angie here. Centennial Christmas dinner. A delicious pork dinner by Schuler’s restaurant. Not as many there this year. Hope and husband and Lee there. I got pictures from Steve’s and Dan’s. Cheryl Ashley dressed as Santa gave out candy canes at our Christmas dinner. I talked with Jim. Shawn Michael called to say he made the basketball team. He’s wanted it so bad.

39° and 25°. Partly cloudy. A little sun. Florence, Vi and Sally here. I bought a coffee percolator at Granny’s Attic for $3. My coffee maker quit working. Jessie called to say she has to work at hospital tomorrow. She will come Monday.

Mostly sunny day. Vi here for paper. I worked at Christmas cards. Got one from Boschock’s. Also Joyce G.

Snowing off and on. cloudy all day. I didn’t go to church. It was the Sunday school program with a covered dish dinner. I went to church out here in PM. Their teenagers Sunday school class sang for us. 12 of them. They were great. Afterwards they gave us boxes of home make cookies. Good. I talked with Jim. He’s painting his bathroom.

Colder. I went for coffee and donuts in morning. Vi here. Angie brought me boiled ham. Good. Stone Pres. Church carolers here in evening. Good turnout. Kinney’s guy here to open my Procrit container. They put it in a hard to open one.

-18° and 4°. Below zero all day. Jessie here. We went shopping for groceries at P and C store. Took us the two hours. Cheryl A here. Also Vi. I went up to Vi’s this PM. Vern called in evening. They are coming for Christmas also. I called Shawn Michael to wish him happy 13th birthday.

30° and -2°. Cloudy, cold, slippery. I went to see Dr. Debby Elliott. Vi went with me. We rode with Cheryl. I cleaned house in PM. Vi and Angie here. Ginny from church brought me Christmas box. She brought one for Jim Nash. He wasn’t home so I gave hit to him later.

Cloudy all day. I mopped bathroom and kitchen floors. Vi and Angie here. Alice Porter 102 has gone to a nursing home in Albany to be near her niece. I called Jim in evening. Jolie and kids are on their way here.

Windy, rain and hail. I called Jim. Jolie and kids in Pennsylvania. Jolie called later from Jill’s in Syracuse. They had good trip. Spent the night in Pennsylvania. I baked chocolate cake. Vi and Andrea here in PM. Power was off in PM because of the wind. Jim, Jolie, Madison and Shawn Michael here in evening. So good to see them. Kids are so big.

Heavy snow in OPM. And evening 22° AND 16°. I got things ready for tomorrow. Jill, Jolie and kids had supper with Patty. Jolie called in evening. Was bad going back to Jim’s. Florence not good. Vern called in evening. Not snowing in Oswego. Angie here. Vi here twice.

Cold. No snow here. Just a little sun in PM. Vern, June, Jim, Jill, Jolie, Shawn Michael, and Madison here for Christmas dinner and PM. A just great day together. Florence flooded her kitchen again in the evening.

Snow flurries, cloudy and cold. I didn’t go to church. Jolie, Jill and Madison took me to the Red Lobster for lunch. Nice. We went to Sears after. I got Mr. Coffee coffee maker. Jolie paid for it. I also bought myself two sweaters. Jolie, Shawn Michael and Madison here in evening. Vi here also. I visited Florence in AM. I took the Times up to Vi when I got home. I forgot to leave it for her.

12° and -7°. Very cold all day. Jolie called about 9:30 AM. They had started home to North Carolina. Vi and I walked over to hospital for my blood work. Wasn’t bad walking. We saw Lyle Shirtliff. I called Jim in evening. Jolie came back after her glasses after she got on Route 81. She was in Pennsylvania when Jim talked with her. She was planning to drive straight through to North Carolina.

Warmer. Cloudy all day. Vi here for paper. I called Jim. Jolie called him at 11:30 PM last night. They had a safe trip home to NC. Hospital lab called to say one of my elements was high from blood work I had yesterday.

34° and 28°. Warmer but cloudy all day. It is in Times that Alice Porter from here died yesterday in Utica. She would have been 102 this Friday the 30th. She was on of the original residents here at Centennial for 25 years. I washed clothes this PM. Vi and Angie here. Hospital lab called me again. I talked with Lyla. I got a Christmas card and $10 from June Ridsdale.

Cloudy all day. Nurse Debbie called to say my last blood work showed I was improved. Vi here for Times. Today would have been Alice Porter’s 102nd birthday.

51° and 40°. Raining all day. Vi, Florence and Angie here.