New flag donated

I also hear that some money is available from the VA that can be applied to retirement home care.

Heads up:  20% of the oldies here are mentally handicapped , aggressive, delusional etc. 20% are stone-deaf and the rest just very old.   I am OK because I have a car and can get to the senior center where folks are more talkative. 

Wait until you are 90 years old to move into a home, if you can!  Diet is a big issue:  if you cannot eat army food, your diet cannot be accommodated.

The rates are good:  meals, housekeeping, yard work and washer-dryer for $90.00 a day, less than a motel. 

   Yesterday we had a bus trip to a local spot where I saw area not usually available to the public, and that was a good trip. 

   One of the new residents donated a new "Veteran:s Flag" to Amber Park.   My Veteran's Flag is tattered and torn and will be retired at the cemetery ceremony next Memorial Day.  I want to go out today with the donor and my camera to record her hoisting the new flag. 

Helping at Computer Lab March 6 012

I spend Wednesday afternoons helping the instructor at our senior center, instruct seniors in computer basics. I enjoy helping folks because I know how much I owe to the lessons I took at the Mayerson Jewish Center.
Now Tuesday evening I have been asked to drive up to a Blue Ash residence, to lend support to one particular lady who needs time and encouragement.

Let the light shine in!

Welcome 2012 July 16

Can you make a telephone call in the next day or two? A call from the family usually gets results, after my attempts have failed.  My  repair man

 "cannot get to the hardware store to get a ceiling fan light switch" with chain.  There is another housekeeper  here  who might be able to get the repair part.  The ceiling light switch has been broken since July 5.

Fortunately, I can read my newspaper in the daylight. The ceiling light fixture has never had all three bulbs working, only two, even though I inserted a new bulb into the failing socket last winter

PEACE reigns at mealtime. The kitchen chief separated the jailhouse gang so the quarreling ended and everyone eats in elegant ease- HURRAH

Laundry Debacle

July 10.  I was up early on laundry day and had my laundry in the dryer by 6.30 AM.  I set my alarm to pick up the dry clothing.  But  some retard had emptied the dryer entirely and inserted her own 2 pieces to dry!  So I exchanged the intruder's pieces for my wet wash and sat there to apprehend the criminal.  It was a well known aide what had interfered with my routine. She said she wanted to de-wrinkle an outfit for a sad case to wear to breakfast!  Same aide who had set me up badly with the nurse's station in October! Now we can guess who has been interfering with the proper laundry routines before (aides rotate floor on a schedule) when there had been an uproar about "someone" putting their soiled laundry into a tub already-full-and-running.  That was SO BAD but now we can attribute the malfeasances to a steady worker who cannot be trusted in the laundry rooms! I must camp out in the laundry as long as this twit has my floor on her shift.
O je.
     I am preparing the clean car and hair care for a party at Trio's Saturday @ 6.30 PM

Still fighting at mealtime Not

July 4 2012.  Our "full service dining room" is becoming more like a prison mess hall!  The speedy-scooter knocked into the oxygen carrier again fourth time, and sparked a ruckus because when the victim complains the aides yell at the victim.  I left my table with baked beans in hand to find a quiet corner.  When the ruckus quited down, I returned for dessert, but  the nurse on duty who had been spoon feeding the Alzheimer's-case, had left him so he started to pull himself away, grabbing on to the Oxygen carrier again causing more loud protest. The waitress would/could not move the Alzheimers but had to wait for the nurse.  More shouting among aides and victim. I took my pie to a corner to finish in peace. The staff is busy defending themselves instead of moving the oxygen victim to a safer spot.  What to do?  Maybe I should eat earlier to avoid the melee?
  JULY  24 THE WARRING FACTIONS HAVE ALL BEEN SEPARATED; AND PEACE AT MEALS IS RESTORED.

Speed limit for Power scooters!

July1 2012 The 80.000 in Cincinnati still without electricity from the wind-storm, are unhappy, but here at home, it is convenient. Yesterday by 18 hours came to us in the home, 14 old people from such a dark place, that must stay here (many sleep on the floors in our empty rooms) and eat here until repair of electricity is finished. 
  From these guests, I learned something important: their motor scooters move at a slow-walk pace!  It is hard to hurt someone when the chair is moving so slowly. I hope our staff will reset the dial for speed on the scooters in this house so that it will impossible for the heavy appliance to whiz around so frightfully fast.