Are those all your pictures, tommyrot? They look very good.

Yes they are. Thanks!

Yeah, meara, my mother and I had put him on the list at three places, but it's hard to get a man placed -- there are only so many male beds. Apparently easier from the hospital, but also we're going to have to expand the radius my mother is willing to travel, I think.

There was something beautifully sad that the forgetting was both the problem and the solution.

I love that kind of story. Although it does make me feel even more negative about the worse nursing homes we looked at.

tommyrot, those are BEAUTIFUL! You're giving those cats and the shelter a great chance. Thank you.

Pumpkin was a menace tonight. Paws have been cleaned, smudges wiped clear and fur removed from varnish. It figures they'd wait to be trouble until I was doing the last coats of varnish, at least it wasn't the tinted stuff. (I decided to put another couple layers of floor-quality varnish on the places of highest 'traffic'- aka bases of the posts [me and my vacuums and mops] and the tops of the posts and the handrails [cats.])

Although it does make me feel even more negative about the worse nursing homes we looked at.

Well, yeah. I think elder care so often errs to fix/control rather than accommodate. It's so complicated, but I think the more organic the care, the easier it is on both the staff and clients. The radio piece reminded me of that article on that village that takes in mentally ill that you posted on goodstuff. Or the 'village' for dementia patients. It requires society to bend and rethink things.

Jesse, I hope this transition goes as smoothly and trauma-less-ly as possible for you and your dad and your mom. It's so hard.

I'm imagining my mom in that wonderful German facility. Wait for a bus, shoot, my mom stole a delivery van and drove off in it.

My family, we're always the damn outliers.

tommyrot, those photos are lovely! You are surely helping those kitties get homes.

tommyrot, those are BEAUTIFUL! You're giving those cats and the shelter a great chance.

What sarameg said!

Oh Jesse, I'm sorry that your father has been struggling so. I hope you find a good place for him.

We got some bad news today. C's aunt has metastatic pancreatic cancer. Ugh! Universe, why do you have to be so brutal! Her grandson was just born about a week ago. I hope she gets to spend a good long time with him.

I feel like I do better at TJ Maxx with clothes, and better at Marshall's with shoes, but I could be making that up. I like both. I think the only Ross I was ever in was in Seattle, when I got there and realized I really should have brought a coat.

My real favorite is Home Goods, though. I could wander in there forever.

The main thing I find upsetting about getting older is that we're all terminal and it gets thrown in your face about people you care about more and more. The aches and new pains, those I can laugh at.

I have once again failed to spend any of my Saturday lying in the sun reading magazines. I really thought that was one of my more achievable goals.