The coast trip

Saturday, after I came in from the ballgames and helped finish watering and we got rid of the customers, we grabbed some clothes, loaded the girls in the truck and headed to the coast.
The girls had been wanting to visit their great grandmother, and this seemed like a good time to carry them.


The girls enjoyed the trip and it was good to visit with mother, but I was a bit .....hmm.....not ticked off, nor were my feelings hurt--disappointed I guess is what I felt. The girls or I have not been down there since Christmas. We hurried and finished watering and waiting on customers and finally left a bit after 5, and other than stopping for gas we drove straight down. We knew they wouldn't wait to eat supper, because Robert, Judy's husband has to eat by 6, he thinks. However, Judy had decided to fry fish and had the trimmings--french fries, hushpuppies, cole slaw and baked beans...all cold as an ice cube. I don't eat cold fish and can't stand a cold french fry, so I didn't eat anything other than the cole slaw. I would have thought they would have fixed something that would either hold, or could be warmed up.

But, it's to be expected. Judy is not dealing with the 'burden' of helping mother and being retired due to her eye sight well. She's always love to play slots and seems to be getting deeper and deeper into that...even running up a credit card debt to fund her addiction. According to Robert, he had close to 100,000.00 in a box under his bed, money he made hauling cars to car lots. He says Judy took around 90,000 of it over time and gambled it away. Whether it was that much, I don't know. I just know he says if he wasn't so old and wouldn't lose his home, he'd divorce her. She's changed so much since the casinos came to the coast. She's never been a real easy person to get to know--but she's even worse now. I hate to see where things may end up.

It was especially disturbing to discover that mother has given Judy a checkbook, and I think an ATM card. Beth and I were trying to find out how closely mother checks her bank statement, but seems she trusts Judy, so she probably wouldn't notice any discrepancies. Lord, I hope Judy wouldn't do mother that way.