Tonight's picture was taken in August of 2008, during Mattie's first week in the hospital. As you can see, Mattie received many stuffed animals from friends. The room was filled. Mattie was very excited because he received a visit from Scooby Doo! Mattie was a huge Scooby Doo fan. Note the two Scooby Doos on the bed! Years after Mattie died, I happened to meet the father of the young boy playing Scooby Doo in this photo! He mentioned that his son was touched by meeting Mattie. So the affection went both ways that day.
Quote of the day: Today's coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins.
- number of people diagnosed with the virus: 5,292,711
- number of people who died from the virus: 168,154
My dad's caregiver had to take her son to school this morning to pick up textbooks. So like on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week, I got my dad up, showered, dressed, and prepared breakfast for my parents.
As is typical in "paradise," we had a full day. I managed the washing machine repair person, the plumber, went grocery shopping, made lunch, helped my parents with pension issues, and later today will be taking them out for an early dinner to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary!
Check out Tica. She is a Pomeranian, who belongs to the plumber. He travels around with her!
The plumber literally put Tica on top of the fountain and left her there while he was in the house fixing the shower. Tica is like Sunny. Very well behaved, calm, and LOVES attention. Of which I gave her plenty! Not to mention a bowl of water.
Peter and I sent my parents flowers. Though a flower delivery should be easy! It isn't at this house. The house sits on a flag lot and therefore shares a common driveway behind a gate. The driveway is a good 500 feet to the front door. But here is the kicker. In front the driveway is a gate to enter the property. Outside the gate there is NO doorbell and no way to communicate with the person in front of the gate. Making it impossible for the homeowner to know if someone needs to communicate with you and enter the property.
Don't get me started on this. Any case, getting in is hard, but so is exiting the property. I can't see when someone is approaching the gate to open it. Therefore, if I press the button too soon, the person can be trapped on the driveway unable to get out. Which is exactly what happened to the flower person today. Poor guy was walking back and forth multiple times until he finally got out. I have tried to discuss this gate issue with the property owner, but he keeps telling me that his system is state of the art. Of course anyone who has to interface with this gate for a half a minute, knows it is a STATE but NOT state of the art.
Meanwhile my boy, Sunny, is having a ball in Boston. Today Peter visited with his parents friends who have two dogs. Sunny got along splendidly with one of them and was out in the backyard looking for rabbits! Sunny is in heaven.
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