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\n(Anook’s day. Lucy image courtesy ABC and Charles Schultz.)<\/p>\n
\n(Anook’s day. Lucy image courtesy ABC and Charles Schultz.)<\/p>\n
Anook tried to find the birth certificate and\/or the passport for Magpie \u2013 but failed.\u00a0 The house is in chaos with the remodeling activity. Things that a year ago were in one place are now in new ones, locations of specific items requiring a geologist\u2019s knowledge of stratigraphy to determined and there are none around.<\/p>\n
Magpie has a garage full of files and folders dating meticulously by subject from 1947, then commencing at the turn of the century, filed by season.<\/p>\n
Anook will head to Traverse City tomorrow and drop off Raven at the \u201cpeople kennel\u201d and head to Detroit with Magpie.\u00a0 Anook\u2019s rental car has to be returned and the family (daughter & husband) have to regroup and figure out Memorial Day week-end vacation.\u00a0\u00a0 Anook can sing O, Canada, but doubts it is in the vacation picture anymore.<\/p>\n
Anook is guessing her husband will drive the merry group to Ohio to get a birth certificate for Magpie and then head for Niagara Falls and cross over to Canada to see the Shaw Festival plays originally on the agenda.\u00a0 At least the four will be together.<\/p>\n
Anook went to the Independence Village at lunchtime.\u00a0 Big Mama bragged they were already done with lunch.\u00a0 This was a full half hour before lunch began.\u00a0 Anook excused herself and went down to the cafeteria.\u00a0 The staff informed her Big Mama had indeed come down early and they gave Big Mama and Raven soup and coffee and let them go back to the room.<\/p>\n
Big Mama complained that meal times changed daily.<\/p>\n
Sigh.<\/p>\n
Anook made an appointment with Doc B to look over Raven.\u00a0 The children wish to know if he needs to go into Hospice care.<\/p>\n
There were only 11 calls to Son #1 today.\u00a0 One of them was about the reported mouse problem in the BIG TOP apartment.\u00a0 Anook agreed to call RAT MAN aka Bug Guy to get him to add the other building to his diligent watch.<\/p>\n
Bug Guy – er, Rat Man- made his way to the house.\u00a0 Anook loves Bug Guy.\u00a0 This guy is all business in the wacky weird disgusting business of vermin, pest and bugs.\u00a0 Son #1 says he was a Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol in Vietnam, long ago, a hunter-killer, and in a way he still is.<\/p>\n
Anook gave him two keys and took him up to the apartment.\u00a0 Anook complained that Son #1 always locked the interior door and Bug Guy laughed.\u00a0 Bug Guy said Son #1 complained about Anook\u2019s obsessiveness over jimmying the house doors so they cannot be opened with a key.<\/p>\n
Anook is all about the garage door openers being the key to access on the property.<\/p>\n
Buy Guy had an accident over the winter.\u00a0 A neighbor dog got loose in the bitter cold and he went out to find him.\u00a0 Bug Guy did not cover his face and ended up with a bad case of winter burn – frost bite- or so he thought.<\/p>\n
Anook\u2019s heart went thump when he said life was good except for his face.\u00a0 Anook asked him what was wrong with his face \u2013 as Anook did not really see there was anything wrong with his face \u2013 but it apparently was very upsetting to him.\u00a0 This week he got a new wrinkle with a blister under his eye and he had a red ruddy complexion.<\/p>\n
Anook\u2019s heart went thump again when he blew it off by saying it was no big deal -he wasn\u2019t in the game anymore.\u00a0 He was 56 \u2013 who cares?\u00a0 He said he didn\u2019t care about his looks.\u00a0 Anook\u2019s heart thumped again.<\/p>\n
Anook is 56.<\/p>\n
Bug Guy said he would add the other building to his watch \u2013 no additional charge.\u00a0 Bug Guy wanted to make sure Son #1 was in full knowledge of the key exchange.\u00a0 Anook assured him he was.\u00a0 Anook talked with him about the neighbors and their parking in the driveway.\u00a0 Anook told him it was good for the family to have them parking at the house.\u00a0 His problem was the way they parked \u2013 blocking the driveway.\u00a0 Anook told him she would straighten that out with them as they helped keep the family informed of what was going on with the property.<\/p>\n
Bug Guy said he felt responsible for the property.\u00a0 Anook thanked him profusely for being a friend to the family.<\/p>\n
When Anook arrived at Potemkin Village, Lovely Rita was at the apartment. She comes periodically to force Raven into the shower.\u00a0 The woman has taken Raven and Big Mama under her Nordic care.\u00a0 She is fierce and protective of Raven, a man essentially long gone \u2013 but also of the befuddled Magpie who can no longer even pretend to take care of her husband of 64 years and has given up on that.<\/p>\n
Lovely Rita told Anook she had called the home phone to hear the terse message Son #1 had left for all political machines, charities and other unwanteds calls who got the answering machine.<\/p>\n
Lovely Rita got everyone from the senior Friendship center to call and listen to it.\u00a0 That was when she decided if things were not good enough for Raven and his care, then she was going straight to the top.\u00a0 She figured no one at Independence Village would dare to defy Son #1.<\/p>\n
Lovely Rita showered, primped, cut nails, made sure two cans of Ensure made it into Raven.\u00a0 She then monitored Raven while he shaved.\u00a0 Raven looked good and alert.<\/p>\n
At dinner, Raven finished every last thing.\u00a0 Anook bullied Big Mama to eat.\u00a0 Big Mama had the gall to tell Anook she didn\u2019t care for ice-cream.<\/p>\n
LIAR!<\/p>\n
The poor people at Potemkin Village only hear from Big Mama that she refuses to fill out the menu choices and that she \u201chates\u201d everything.\u00a0 This week I saw the weirdest things on her plate.\u00a0 Apparently because Big Mama \u201chates\u201d everything, they give her only vegetables.\u00a0 Big Mama hates vegetables.<\/p>\n
Sigh.<\/p>\n
God Bless our neighbors.<\/p>\n
God Bless Lovely Rita.<\/p>\n
God Bless Bug Man.<\/p>\n
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