Wednesday, Sept 15, 2021

Jim makes a video (Duo) call to Mom at 11:15 AM and we head over to mom’s place with Jim’s gardening tools/trimmers.  When we get there, she’s moved the coffee table out of the living room.  I congratulate her on the good idea of getting the table out of the way to ease the use of the walker and that it even makes the room look bigger!  Jim’s already headed into the backyard to begin trimming & cleanup.  Meanwhile, I visit with Mom a bit and clean up the kitchen sink & counter.  When Jim comes in about an hour later, mom says she wants the multi-colored area rug rolled up and put away.  She has to reason why she wants this done, she just does.  So we roll it up and move it into the garage.  Then we see that mom’s shoes have mud caked under them from when she was out in the yard with Jim which has been tracked on the carpet.  So Jim grabs the Shark vacuum and begins a through cleaning of the living room, kitchen and hallway.   We sit down for a coffee break and mom is still situated at the edge of her seat and asking for Jim to do something else again!  I tell her, for God’s sake, give Jim a minute to catch his breath!  She says, “Well if I can’t have a new fence and I can’t get the stairs rebuilt on the deck, then I want (something else I can’t recall).

On the way home, Jim and I discuss her obsession with replacing the 2nd set of stairs on her deck. Even though I've told her several times that the foundation under those steps were inadequate (basically a mud puddle), she insists that they be replaced. In order to just put this issue to bed perhaps we should just find a quick and dirty way to get some kind of steps replaced there. Perhaps we can find a pre-built set of steps like those used to get into older manufactured homes.