Started out a typical visit...Dottie was glad to see me. Found her down in Activities..coloring..She hates art now even tho in her younger days she loved art and did some drawing herself! Today I guess she was entertaining the class with her stories of the olden days when she was an acrobat! Yes old Dottie was an acrobat.... I kid her about it all the time. Whenever she talks about falling, which she does occasionally, I have to laugh because I picture her falling...going into a rolling summer salt...flipping over and popping right back up arms up in the air..yelling "Viola" !! She has tripped over the rug...she has fallen out of bed... stumbled over the chair and even went down on one knee while we were strolling thru lovely East Aurora one day. She is so resilient tho she gets up and laughs too. I guess all those years of being quite active gave her strong bones!!
Today we got out the old cards and began to play. Got our coffee and our cookies out..and the rustling of the cookie bag always brings her roommate over! Anne loves sweets..so we share She just rolls over in her chair and starts to babble..knowing she's gonna get cookies!! Today the babbling was about the laundry. ..
She wanted to know who did the laundry there and did I do my own laundry. I told her they did her laundry there for her. She said "oh I know the man told me he would take it down but do I have to go get it?" "No" I told her .."they come get it and a few days later bring it back and put it away . That is why all the clothes are labeled with your name!" Dottie told her "put them in your laundry basket." then Dottie looked at me and laughed and said "I just throw mine on the floor behind my chair like I did when I was a kid...I make them look for them." "Good idea" I told her "in fact I think I will start to bring my laundry in once a week and throw it behind the chair and get it the next time I come in! They will never know..I'll put Dottie labels in them. We laughed..and good old Anne chimed in again .. like a broken record..stuck on "the laundry"
But I gave her her cookies and she rolled away stashing them on her night stand for later... That shut her up! We went back to playing cards..Or "kicking Dottie's Ass" as I call it!
All of the sudden we heard all this commotion and heard Anne yell! Gabriel..the big visiting dog strolled in must have smelled Anne's cookies and scared the BeGesus out of her...it was too funny..he was like a big smiling Lummox!!!!
Too Cute. So they brought him around we all gave him some attention and kept him away from Anne's cookies. Over he comes to Dottie and tried to get her coffee cup and then spotted her cookies!
He sat right down and just stared at them.."No use Gabe buddy...you can't have the cookies... I asked, but your mean master said no!! After Gabe left..we could hear all the people down the hall having fun with the dog...and Dottie looked at me and said ...I live in a damn Nut House!!!!!!
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