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writing again. I was on a low limb for awhile but the Lord has seen fit to let me live awhile longer for some reason or other. To be a pest and a burden to my children, I suppose.
Where I'm sitting here at my writing desk in front of my double windows I can see squirrels coming down a big oak tree about four feet from the ground peeping to see if there is any cats around so they can come and eat out of the cats dish. If they see one, here they scoot back up the tree like a streak of lightning. Cats from some where by the wholesale come to eat as Della puts the table scraps out for the squirrels, birds, dogs and even a coon. Birds of all descriptions come and eat and sit on the branches of my Althea bush. The mother and father red bird and their little ones are so pretty. All colors of cats, white, maltese, black, white and black, yellow, gray and you name them, we have 'um. Then our neighbors dogs come and lick up the remains. That's our outside company. Oh, yes; and a big coon. Then we have Jots of indoors co., which we always enjoy. When I was in the Mercy hospital in N.O. for a month and a half I had more company than I had ever expected. Relatives and friends. One Sunday afternoon there were eighteen of my folks from Pearlington and Slidell in my room at one time. The nurse came in twice and asked me if all of those folks didn't make me nervous; and I told her no, because they were my children & grandchildren all except our minister & his wife. Then when I finally got out of the hospital the doctor had me to go to my daughters in Metairie, La., and I had to stay there for a week or so, so he could check me before 1 came home. While I was there I had nieces, nephews, my son from Slidell at night after he got off from work. They come from Petal, Miss., Hattiesburg, Picayune, Slidell, Gulfport, Orange Grove, Bay St. Louis, Moss Point, Pascagoula and even a couple of my friends from California also a niece and nephew from California come and stayed a week while I was in the hospital. They'd come to see me every day, so then my doctor let me go to Ruby's a couple of days before Amy left to go back to California. That's the first time I had seen Celeste and Walter in about thirty five years or maybe a little longer. So then after I got home I still had folks coming to see me. I counted over a hundred who had been to see me at the hospital, at Ruby's and for awhile after I got home. I got tired of counting them so quit. I really did appreciate their efforts of coming so far off. You never realize how many friends you do have until you are real sick. I've been back in the
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