December 6, 2017 ??????

Ian stayed with his grandmother until Tuesday morning. I'm glad because she gets so lonesome. She also told me that he had borrowed $170 from her so that he could make a rush trip to Hot Springs on Thursday and get a rush passport. This is the same passport I filled out and gave him all the paperwork in August, which he lost. Then near November 1, I filled it all out again and put $139 in his account so he could pay for it. He assured me he had mailed it off and we werte just waiting for it. I guess he spent the money and never ordered the passport. I mentioned last week that I would go alone if he hadn't received his passport. That may have sparked panic. I hope he pulls it off.

He didn't come home or call last night. When he came in at 7:30 this morning he said he was sorry. I responded, "no you're. not, or you would have called and it wouldn't happen so frequently." I went home for lunch and Sarah was there. I just got my stuff and left. The old Hee Haw show had a phrase, "gloom, dispair, and agony on me."