GREETINGS FROM OUR COLD NEBRASKA HOME

It has been a while since I have made a posting. I was just looking at the pictures from when we were packing up my Mother's stuff in her home in Scottsburg in November 2009. Wow. It is now January 2011 and much has changed. Mother's home sold and she died in June 2010. I have a lot of very fond memories of Mother and of the home I grew up in and came home to for many years. The people who bought the house have not been taking care of the outside like Mother would have, nor I. Moe still lives a couple of blocks away and tells us from time to time what the place looks like. We did make a trip back in December for a quick visit with Moe , Sue Collins, and Edith Murphy and her family. I got word today that Edith will be moving into Assisted Living at the Hampton Oaks in Scottsburg next week. It is a small world. Edith has been living in acute care in the same room Mother was in and died in back in 2010. Edith was such a good friend and I think of her are sort of a second mother. I have been writing to her weekly and keeping in touch with Janet Hall. Janet says Edith is doing very well physically, but is slipping mentally. Her good friend, Hiram, lost his driving rights, but his son drops him off at the Oaks to see Edith daily. Janet says she stops in to see Edith 2 or 3 times a day. It is nice that they are so close and can do that. We thought it would be nice for Mother to move out here, but would have been so far from her many, dear friends and would not have been happy here. Like I said, it is cold out here and we have about a foot of snow laying around. Actually, I just looked and it has actually warmed up to 19 tonight. We love Nebraska and the cold and snow go with it. Blessings, BRIAN