November 13 was my mother’s 97th birthday. If I get my math right, this means she was born in 1921, the same year Aline Barnsdall fired Frank Lloyd Wright during the construction of her Hollyhock House in Hollywood…
She still lives independently in her cottage at the Artesia Christian Home, as she has for the past 13 years…
On Sunday and Monday this week she was visited by four of her great-grandchildren:
At last count, she has 5 children, 4 grand children, 10 great-grandchildren, and 4 great-great-grandchildren (and maybe one in escrow? I’m not trying to start rumors here, but I think that is what I was told…) If I didn’t quite get these numbers right, forgive me – they told me there would be no math in retirement…
I stopped by on the 14th, because I was at the Happiest Place on Earth on the 13th…
We went to lunch at the place where Don Jose’s used to be…
I read her all the birthday cards she received…
And an enjoyable time was had by all…
Adventures in the Villa 