Cold but nice. Vi here. Also Sally. Julia brought me a cookie bunny and candy. Debby called in evening. She has my book ready for printing. I to tables set up for tomorrow.

Year: 2009
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Diary Entry for 4/12/2009
Easter Sunday. A sunny day. Dad died 49 years ago today. He was 68 years old. Easter dinner here but June and Vern brought it with the. Robin helped. A great dinner and a great day together. Vern and June, Dan and Robin, Lydia and Jordan, Steve and Kristen and Sarah, Jim and Tracy, Jill and Jeff, Shawn Michael and me.
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Diary Entry for 4/13/2009
A sunny day but king of cold. Vi here for paper. Sally here half a dozen times. My appointment with Dr. Javangee in PM. I rode Part Transit bus. My eye pressure 18 and 14. Shirley Davis fell land broke her neck. Today is Hope’s birthday.
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Diary Entry for 4/14/2009
A sunny warm day. Julie and Chlie (?) here for Vi’s paper. Good to see them. I had appointment with Katie at hospital. Everything okay. Vi walked over with me. Sally here. Also Angie.
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Diary Entry for 4/16/2009
A beautiful day. Roger and Gloria called. Roger needs a hip operation. Cathy called. She is coming Friday. Vi here. Shirley gave me perm at 1 PM. Angie here twice.
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Diary Entry for 4/17/2009
Another nice day. They painted the white stripping in the parking lots. Kathy here to clean. We went to the store. Vi called to say Esther Taylor fell in the laundry last night and broke her hip. Burn ban in Jefferson County. There was a 100 area brush fire on Camp Drum this week near the Coolidge Road. It is very dry.
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Diary Entry for 4/18/2009
Cloudy day. Some rain. I went to coffee hour. Sally here. Also Angie. Juanita called in PM.
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Diary Entry for 4/19/2009
A nice day. Sunny. Vi here. Sally here. Lidia gave me spaghetti and meatballs. Good. Maryanne gave me a delicious biscuit with egg, cheese and bacon, I went to church out here. A great message by Pastor Reff. Mrs. Smith gave us cookies.
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Diary Entry for 4/20/2009
A nice day. Vi here for paper. Sally here. Also Angie. Vi went over to hospital yesterday to see Esther Taylor. She was medicated.
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Diary Entry for 4/21/2009
A cloudy day. I went to exercise class. We had our picture taken for the Times. Shirley Davis is back in her apartment. She’s doing good. Angie here in evening. Thunder and lightning and rain in the evening,
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Diary Entry for 4/22/2009
A cloudy day. Sally here for some milk for breakfast, Angie here in evening.
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Diary Entry for 4/23/2009
Cloudy and rainy. I went to exercise class. Debby called. She has received the book she wrote abut me. She’s sending it to me.
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Diary Entry for 4/24/2009
A nice sunny day. 76° and 34°. Vi here. Also Angie and Sally. Vi called tonight to say they are moving Esther Taylor to Mercy Monday. She has to have two weeks of bed rest. My right hip very sore.
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Diary Entry for 4/25/2009
Fort Drum has 36,000 soldiers and their families. Fort Drum gives a billion and a half dollars into the North Country economy.
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Diary Entry for 4/26/2009
A nice day. Jim Nash brought me the bulletin from church. Vi here for paper. Lots of swine flu in Mexico.
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Diary Entry for 4/27/2009
A very warm day. Like summer. I took Para Transit bus to Dr. LaPoint. I had blood tests and urine tests. Sally here. Also Vi and Angie. I got a lovely book. Beatrice, the Early Years, written by Debby Hanson. Great pictures.
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Diary Entry for 4/28/2009
Cloudy and cooler. I didn’t go to exercise class. Vi here. Also Sally and Angie. National Grid called about a lower bill starting in June for a year. Debby (Nurse) called. I still have kidney infection. I’m to go on antibiotics for two weeks. My blood report stable. The Swine Flu is spreading.
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Diary Entry for 4/29/2009
Not a bad day. Not much sun. Jim from Kinney’s brought me two weeks supply of antibiotics. Vi here. I talked with Jim. Jill and Jeff have been to Kalcon NM (?). I hope they didn’t get swine flu. They stopped off t Jolie’s and Zack’s for a visit on way back.
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Diary Entry for 4/30/2009
A nice day. I went to exercise class. Muriel gave us each a nice picture of our class. Angie here. I paid my rent for May. $72. Jolie called. Zack has been laid off his $158,000 a year job. I felt so sorry for them. Debby called to see if I got my book.
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Diary Entry for 5/1/2009
A cloudy day. Debby (nurse) called to say I had bad kidney infection and ask if I got my antibiotics. Sally was here. Also Angie. Jolie tried to call me but my phone isn’t working right. She called Vi. Vi and Sue here. Jolie called to say Shawn and Becky’s baby, Cayden, had died. His brother’s never got to see him alive. They were planning to go to Syracuse when they got work he had died.
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Diary Entry for 5/2/2009
Not a bad day. Granny’s Attic sale today. My big phone isn’t ringing in. Vi brought me one she had.
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Diary Entry for 5/3/2009
63° and 45°. A nice sunny day. Vi here. I went to church out here. Nice service. A little seven year old boy played the piano. A great job. Sally here in PM.
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Diary Entry for 5/4/2009
A sunny day. Vi here. Also Sally. I collected for VIP raffle. Not many folks home. I went to Centennial meeting in PM. “Peppy”, Florence André’s little dog put to sleep today he has been here since I have.
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Diary Entry for 5/5/2009
67° and 38°. Mostly sunny day. I went to exercise class. VIP today. Mike White sang for us he is still such a great country singer. A nice meeting and good turn out. Jim got me anew telephone and put memory numbers on it. I talked with Lyla in evening.
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Diary Entry for 5/6/2009
A cloudy day. A few showers. I didn’t go to exercise. Vi here. Also Angie. Kristi from Office of the Blind here for visit. Kathy here to clean. Donna Ellis here in PM. So great to see her.
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Diary Entry for 5/8/2009
A nice warm day still. Vi here. Also Angie and Sally. Vern called to say they would be here tomorrow.
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Diary Entry for 5/9/2009
A little sun but mostly rain. Some real hard. Vi here for Times. Vern and June here. They took me out to lunch for Mother’s Day. A nice day together. We went to the Cracker Barrel Restaurant. They brought me half a Bar-B-Q chicken for supper. Lyla called in evening. Sally here. I didn’t go to coffee hour. Jim called in evening and asked me to go to Bob Evan’s restaurant Sunday for Mother’s Day. Juanita called.
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Diary Entry for 5/10/2009
Cooler and cloudy. A few showers. Jim took Tracy and I to Bob Evans for lunch. We came back here and had chocolate cake that Tracy brought. Vi here for paper. Jim looked through box of snapshots. They left at 7 PM. Jolie called in AM. Jill called in PM. Joel called in evening. Today is the 40th anniversary of Jim and Patty’s marriage.
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Diary Entry for 5/11/2009
A nice day. My appointment with Dr. Matereese. I took the Para Transit bus. Vi here. Also Angie twice. I gave them some of my Mother’s Day cake from Tracy. Postage goes up two cents to forty-four cents. Coby Slate called in evening. Sally here.
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Diary Entry for 5/12/2009
A nice sunny day. I went to exercise class. Drug store Jim brought my eye drops and pills. I made reservations for our VIP picnic at the park.
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Diary Entry for 5/13/2009
Another sunny day. Vi here for the Times. Angie here in PM. Jolie called in evening.
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Diary Entry for 5/14/2009
Windy, cloudy, and rainy. I went to exercise class. Good turnout. Angie here brought me cornbread. Good. Sally here. Shawn Michael and a friend here after baseball practice. He is getting his hair cut. Also fitted for a rented tuxedo for the prom on Saturday night.
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Diary Entry for 5/15/2009
Sunny, nice day. Julia brought me some boiled ham. Good. Vi here for Times.
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Diary Entry for 5/16/2009
Not a bad day. Sunny. Vi here. Also Angie and Sally. The Hawaiian party is tonight. I didn’t go to it as the room was too dark. Hurt my eyes too much. They had a nice party. Good turnout.
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Diary Entry for 5/17/2009
Cold wind. Sunny day. I went to church out here. Retired soldier in charge. Very nice sermon. Jim Nash here. The men of the church put on a turkey dinner to honor the women of the church. Vi here. Also Angie. Angie brought me lilacs.
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Diary Entry for 5/18/2009
56° and 40°. Sunny day. Cool wind. Vi was here. Also Sally. Patty called in PM. Juanita called in evening. She had a not from Martha Haggerty for her birthday. She said Richard and Kathryn are both deceased.
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Diary Entry for 5/19/2009
Sunny. Cool wind. I went to exercise class. No one from Henry Keep apartments came. Angie here in PM.
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Diary Entry for 5/20/2009
78° and 43°. A warm sunny day. Vi here. I talked with Lyla. Nancy O’Connor, dietitian here. Also Barbara. Lyla called in evening. Esther called in evening. Her granddaughter returns from Africa tomorrow with a little 4 year old boy they are adopting from over there.
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Diary Entry for 5/21/2009
81°. A nice summer day. I didn’t go to exercise class. Cathy here to clean at 10 AM. Vi here. Also Angie. I didn’t go to the covered dish supper. I didn’t have anything to take. Sally here in evening. Got new phone box.
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Diary Entry for 5/22/2009
72° and 54°. A nice sunny day. I washed clothes this PM. Angie here at suppertime. Vi here. Sally here in evening. Lee oiled my windowsill so the window would slide easier. I’m to get a new window. I got a lovely picture of Juanita and her daughters from Debbie.
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Diary Entry for 5/23/2009
I went to coffee hour. A nice day. No company today. Juanita called in evening. They are coming Thursday. I got rest of blank checks.
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Diary Entry for 5/24/2009
Cloudy day. Some rain and some sun. Vi here. Also Angie. She gave me roast turkey. Good. Jim Nash here. Debbie called in PM.
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Diary Entry for 5/25/2009
A nice day. Sunny. Memorial Day. No Times or mail. I got some letters ready to mail tomorrow. North Korea tested another nuclear bomb under ground. Very upsetting to many countries.
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Diary Entry for 5/26/2009
69° and 33°. Not a bad day. My appointment with Dr. LaPoint. Jim took me. I had blood work for Dr. Matereese. Vi here. Also Angie. Bertha Litchie here to pay dues for VIP.
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Diary Entry for 5/27/2009
Some rain. Cloudy mostly. Vi here for Times. Our exercise class picture is in Times. Angie had cataract operation. Sally here for three hours in evening.
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Diary Entry for 5/28/2009
74° and 55°. Warmer, cloudy. I went to exercise class. Fern there. Good turnout. Juanita and Doreen here. Doreen had doctor appointment. Sally here in evening. Eleanor D here in PM.
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Diary Entry for 5/29/2009
A cloudy day. Mel Busher took our picture in Metcalf room for “Buster’s Beauties”. It will be on TV with the six o’clock news. I saw Lyla in lobby today. Sally here. Lee made some copies of my bank statements for me.
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Diary Entry for 5/30/2009
A cool day. Vi here. Also Sally. She lost her watch. Angie here in PM. Her eye doing fine.
