Poinsettias

Tuesday, November 29, 2016
My bus was late so I arrived late.  Dinner was already served.  They had put a cover over my meal to keep it warm.  It was baked fish with tartar sauce, carrots and rice.  Dessert was a mixed fruit cobbler.
Mom ate everything on her plate.  My tea was already poured.  Ailene knows mom and I drink tea.  Jacquie got some pieces of orange for me.  It's nice to know mom's table mates are looking out for me.
We had dinner music.  Jacquie likes to sing.  The kitchen gave me two pieces of fish so I gave some to Jacquie to give to Peter the cat.  She said his teeth aren't very good so she removed the coating on the fish.  That coating was quite thick.
Jacquie said there was a kiwi tree outside in the rose garden.  She said someone had taken all the kiwis.  That was news to me.  I'll have to pay more attention next year at this time.
On the way back to mom's room Shanta flagged me down.  She gave me an apple.  She was sitting in the fish tank room by herself so I asked if she wanted me to push her to the television room.
I gave mom and Donna each a poinsettia.  They seemed pleased.  Donna said she loved poinsettias.
Donna went to the television room to join the others.  I trimmed mom's bangs and checked her drawers and laundry hamper.  There were clothes in the hamper.
I remembered to bring tape and thumbtacks so I put up some of mom's artwork and photographs.
We went to join the others, but suddenly mom said she wanted to go back to the room.  It turned out she had to fart.  I guess the dinner must have given her a lot of gas.  I took her for a brisk walk up and down the entrance hallway.  We laughed and giggled when she farted.  I tried to get her to skip and jump.  She tried the skipping, but she didn't want to jump.  Maybe I will hire her a personal trainer.
Once mom's gaseous episode was over I brought her back to the group and we played cards.  Mom won three times again.  Donna won once and Michael won once.  Anna joined us late in the game because she was talking to her son on the phone.
It's nice to hear them laugh and have a good time.