Monthly Archives: December 2004

Diary Entry for 12/2/2004

Cloudy day. I went to exercise class. They decorated here today. Looks great. I finished decorating my apartment. Jim here in evening. He brought me some cash. Angie here in evening also. I gave canned food for mailman for collection for the needy.

Diary Entry for 12/3/2004

33° and 24°. Everything white with snow this morning. Beautiful. So clean. Jessie here to clean. She finished my tree. Nelda McCarthy called to ask how I was doing. Cindy G, Cora Bura and Carol Garman called. Vi here for Times. Debby H called in evening.

Diary Entry for 12/4/2004

Cloudy. A little sun. Rain and snow in evening. I went for coffee and donuts in morning. Vi here. Also Rose T. I collected for church folks from Betty W ad Fred and Isabel Reinbeck. Jim N called about church.

Diary Entry for 12/5/2004

Sunny day. I didn’t get to First Church. Jolie called at 8 AM. She and the kids have moved into a new apartment. Zack has an expensive new car. Shawn Michael had to change schools again. I talked with Jim. It is in today’s paper where Michael Sounders has bought 6.5 acres of land for $35,000 on Ore Bed Road, Philadelphia from Sunset Bluff Pines, Inc. I went to church out here in PM. Their choir had a cantata for us. Gave out fruit baskets. Carolers from First church here to sing for us in PM.

Diary Entry for 12/7/2004

39° and 24°. Cloudy, some rain. Windy in evening. Cheryl took me to Dr. LaPoint’s. Everything okay. VIP here for Christmas dinner. Larry helped arrange tables. We had 14 for dinner. Two absent. Had four guests. Delicious turkey dinner put on by Cindy Granger.

Diary Entry for 12/8/2004

The snow all melted this morning after the rain. I addressed first Christmas cards to mail. Vi and Angie here. The school show chorus young people from Carthage here to sing for us in evening. Excellent program. City cop Mike VanWaldick shot his girl friend’s friend on LeRay Street. Cops have looked for him all day. Ryan Dorr 26 still alive but serious. Jessica Quincy girl involved.

Diary Entry for 12/11/2004

A little snow overnight. Ground white in place. Merrill and I were married sixty-nine years ago today. There was no snow then either. Sally and Vi here. Florence gave me rice pudding for supper. Good. Sue had birthday party for Vi Mowers in Metcalf room. I went.

Diary Entry for 12/14/2004

Snowing hard in morning. Cold. No exercise class as Muriel and her husband got real sick on vacation cruise. Vi here. Florence here. She isn’t too good. She had 3 liters of fluid drawn yesterday. Debby called. My blood count on the high side again. I’m to do Procrit every other week now. I called Jim. He and Walt were on way to Longway’s Restaurant for something to eat.

Diary Entry for 12/15/2004

Cold day. Sunny part of time. Jolie called in morning. She and kids are coming for Christmas. Vi and Angie here. Centennial Christmas dinner. A delicious pork dinner by Schuler’s restaurant. Not as many there this year. Hope and husband and Lee there. I got pictures from Steve’s and Dan’s. Cheryl Ashley dressed as Santa gave out candy canes at our Christmas dinner. I talked with Jim. Shawn Michael called to say he made the basketball team. He’s wanted it so bad.

Diary Entry for 12/16/2004

39° and 25°. Partly cloudy. A little sun. Florence, Vi and Sally here. I bought a coffee percolator at Granny’s Attic for $3. My coffee maker quit working. Jessie called to say she has to work at hospital tomorrow. She will come Monday.

Diary Entry for 12/18/2004

Snowing off and on. cloudy all day. I didn’t go to church. It was the Sunday school program with a covered dish dinner. I went to church out here in PM. Their teenagers Sunday school class sang for us. 12 of them. They were great. Afterwards they gave us boxes of home make cookies. Good. I talked with Jim. He’s painting his bathroom.

Diary Entry for 12/19/2004

Colder. I went for coffee and donuts in morning. Vi here. Angie brought me boiled ham. Good. Stone Pres. Church carolers here in evening. Good turnout. Kinney’s guy here to open my Procrit container. They put it in a hard to open one.

Diary Entry for 12/20/2004

-18° and 4°. Below zero all day. Jessie here. We went shopping for groceries at P and C store. Took us the two hours. Cheryl A here. Also Vi. I went up to Vi’s this PM. Vern called in evening. They are coming for Christmas also. I called Shawn Michael to wish him happy 13th birthday.

Diary Entry for 12/21/2004

30° and -2°. Cloudy, cold, slippery. I went to see Dr. Debby Elliott. Vi went with me. We rode with Cheryl. I cleaned house in PM. Vi and Angie here. Ginny from church brought me Christmas box. She brought one for Jim Nash. He wasn’t home so I gave hit to him later.

Diary Entry for 12/22/2004

Cloudy all day. I mopped bathroom and kitchen floors. Vi and Angie here. Alice Porter 102 has gone to a nursing home in Albany to be near her niece. I called Jim in evening. Jolie and kids are on their way here.

Diary Entry for 12/23/2004

Windy, rain and hail. I called Jim. Jolie and kids in Pennsylvania. Jolie called later from Jill’s in Syracuse. They had good trip. Spent the night in Pennsylvania. I baked chocolate cake. Vi and Andrea here in PM. Power was off in PM because of the wind. Jim, Jolie, Madison and Shawn Michael here in evening. So good to see them. Kids are so big.

Diary Entry for 12/24/2004

Heavy snow in OPM. And evening 22° AND 16°. I got things ready for tomorrow. Jill, Jolie and kids had supper with Patty. Jolie called in evening. Was bad going back to Jim’s. Florence not good. Vern called in evening. Not snowing in Oswego. Angie here. Vi here twice.

Diary Entry for 12/25/2004

Cold. No snow here. Just a little sun in PM. Vern, June, Jim, Jill, Jolie, Shawn Michael, and Madison here for Christmas dinner and PM. A just great day together. Florence flooded her kitchen again in the evening.

Diary Entry for 12/26/2004

Snow flurries, cloudy and cold. I didn’t go to church. Jolie, Jill and Madison took me to the Red Lobster for lunch. Nice. We went to Sears after. I got Mr. Coffee coffee maker. Jolie paid for it. I also bought myself two sweaters. Jolie, Shawn Michael and Madison here in evening. Vi here also. I visited Florence in AM. I took the Times up to Vi when I got home. I forgot to leave it for her.

Diary Entry for 12/27/2004

12° and -7°. Very cold all day. Jolie called about 9:30 AM. They had started home to North Carolina. Vi and I walked over to hospital for my blood work. Wasn’t bad walking. We saw Lyle Shirtliff. I called Jim in evening. Jolie came back after her glasses after she got on Route 81. She was in Pennsylvania when Jim talked with her. She was planning to drive straight through to North Carolina.

Diary Entry for 12/28/2004

Warmer. Cloudy all day. Vi here for paper. I called Jim. Jolie called him at 11:30 PM last night. They had a safe trip home to NC. Hospital lab called to say one of my elements was high from blood work I had yesterday.

Diary Entry for 12/29/2004

34° and 28°. Warmer but cloudy all day. It is in Times that Alice Porter from here died yesterday in Utica. She would have been 102 this Friday the 30th. She was on of the original residents here at Centennial for 25 years. I washed clothes this PM. Vi and Angie here. Hospital lab called me again. I talked with Lyla. I got a Christmas card and $10 from June Ridsdale.