Apartment Widow Sarah - Hannah Drops by for a Visit

A key goes into the lock and the

door opens.

Hannah walks inside.

Her Mother still sits by the

window looking out.

Hannah calls to her, 'Hello Mother'.

She lays her hat off and places it

in her papa's dusty red chair.

The widow Sarah does not get up

but merely turns her head and says,

'Hello' to her one and only daughter.

Widow Sarah has a thyroid problem.

She doesn't own any energy.

Vitamin D doesn't do that much good

either.

Hannah looks around and sees that

the apartment has not been cleaned since

the last time she was here, which was

a month ago.

She gives her Mother a hug and a kiss

on her cheek.

Hannah walks over and looks towards the

beds. 

She thinks of how much room there could

be if Papa's bed was gone.

Widow Sarah intently watches Hannah.

So, Hannah goes back over beside her

Mother and sits down. 

They talk for a while until Hannah

tells her that she would like to take

home the fresco.

Her Mother tells her to take it and that it is

under the bed, but she could not

remember which one.

She thought, 'I will have to look under

both beds, so I just as well as to make

it easy for myself and pull it off out!

Emily first moved Papa's desk.

Everything was still in the same spot under

the bed, where

she had put it when she moved her Mother

in.

Hannah starts to work!

First, she hauls out all of the picture frames from under

the bed. 

They need hanging she thought. 

All of this filled up the top of Papa's bed!

Before she got back on the floor she saw, 

'The Pink Lady' and 'Blueboy'. 

Hannah loved these pictures even when she

was a child. 

She grew up with them.

Hannah decided that next time she comes over,

that she will take these pictures

home with her!

Still more stuff under the bed.

(I moved the bed to show you what else

was under Bernard's bed.)

Nope, the fresco is not here!

Must be under the other bed.

Under her Mother's bed at the foot are pictures

that still need framing.

One day she thought, those will have to get

framed.

Time to look under the other bed.

After much pulling and tugging she pulled out the

dollhouse that she had once had as a

child.

So many memories and joy the little dollhouse

brought to her.

And placed it on top of her Papa's bed.

Hannah said to her Mother, 'Mother, why don't 

you give the little girl downstairs my cute

little dollhouse'.

Widow Sarah ignored that.

Again, Hannah gets on her knees and looks under

the bed. She pulled out a wig in its box and

an empty wig box.

She thought, 'useless to keep these items'.

After putting these items on Papa's desk, she 

knelt again under her Mother's bed.

She took all of the quilts out and folded them up

better and placed each one on top of the bed.

There were 4 in all. 

Too pretty to keep under a bed.

One day she thought, 'I am going to take

these home'.

Some of the stuff under her Mother's bed after

the dollhouse and other things have been

removed.

Still some dishes and still more dishes in the

blue checked box.

Hannah took out some books!

Finally she found the frieze!!

'The Lord's Supper'.

It was lovely in white!!

Hannah asked her Mother where she had gotten

this Frieze.

Widow Sarah said that her Father had rescued it

out of an old house that was being torn down.

'Papa knew how much I wanted it', she said.

Hannah put everything else back under both beds.

Came and plopped down on the chair.

She needed to rest before she went home.

Thanks for stopping in!

Conny