Acorns ● Airplanes ● All Souls Day ●
Amber ● Armenia ● Arts ● Art Exhibitions ● Astronomy ● Autumn ● Baltic Sea ● Baravykų sriuba kunigaikščių
užeigoje (Mushroom soup) ● Birds (always reminded me to feed them) ● Biržai (town in Lithuania) ● Books ● Botanical Gardens ● Bulviniai Blynai (Potato Pancakes) ● Butterflies ● Campfire ● Camping By Moletų Ežerai (lakes in Lithuania) ● Canada ● Cardinals (birds) ● Cartoons (especially "Nu, Pogodi!") ● Cats ● Chess ● Chicago ●
Chocolate ● Christmas ● Christmas Carols ● Classical Music ● Cloud Formations ● Coffee ● Cold Beet Soup ● Collecting plant seeds ● Collection of Actresses’ Photos
that Germans confiscated during the WWII. ● Colors ● Coming back home before sundown ● Constitution of the U.S.A.
● Courage ● Craft Books ● Craft Tools ● Crafts ● Crafts with Dried Flowers ● Crochet ● Culinary Courses ● Cute Things ● Dainų Šventės (Song Festivals) ●
Dean Martin
Show ● Designs ● Dictionaries (used them all the time) ● Dill (herb aiding normal blood pressure) ● Dill Pickles ● Discussions ● Doctors ● Dogs ● Ducklings ● Ducks ● Easter
● Elegant Apparel (enjoyed sewing and knitting her own clothes) ● Encyclopedias (used them for reference all her life) ● English (learned it in her fifties) ● Ethnographic Trips (while in Lithuania) ● Expeditions to Ural Mountains and Crimea (as a student) ● Fall Foliage ● Family ● Father ● Feeding Birds ● Fire Bugs (especially watching them with her granddaughter) ● Fireworks ● Flower
Arrangements ● Flowers ● Folk Art of Various Cultures ● Forests ● Fragrant flowers ● "Frank's" (garden store in Chicago, closed down long time ago) ● Freedom from oppression ● Friends ●
Galena ● Geochemistry ● Geology ● Gardening ● Gardens ● Geese ● Genuine Lithuanian Rye Bred ● God ● Golden Finches ● Good Actors ● Good Conversation ● Good
Manners ● Good Night Sleep
● Good Talk ● Good Theater ● Goslings ● Grandchildren ● Greeting Cards
● Halloween (giving out candy to children in costumes) ● Hand-Made Paper ● Healing Properties of Herbs ● Her Children ● Her Husband ● Her Parents ● Historical Dramas ● History ● History of Science ● Honesty ● Horses
● House Sparrows ● Human
Dignity ● Human Intellect ● Human Rights ● Humor ● Illinois ● Indiana ● Information Systems (with perforated cards) ● 'Jessica Fletcher' ● Jesus Christ ● Kaunas ● Kikas (very first pet dog in Lithuania) ● Kittens
● Knitting ● Knowledge ● Kruopa (pet dog in Chicago) ● Lady Bugs ● Languages (Lithuanian, Russian, German, Polish, English) ● Letters ● Life ● Lithuania ●
Lithuanian Cuisine ● Lithuanian Folk Art ● Lithuanian Folk Costume ● Lithuanian Songs ● Magazines
● Marquette Park (walked in the park every day up until her ha in April of 2012) ● Mementos from her Grandchildren’s Childhood ● Michigan ● Mineral Collections ● Miniature
Things ● Moon ● Mother ● Mourning Doves ● Movies ● Museums ● Mushrooms (especially going picking them in Lithuanian forest) ● Music ● Nature Programs on TV ● Nature Walks ● Neighbors ● News of
Current Events ● New Year Celebration ● Niagara Falls ● Nurses ● Owls ● Passion of Christ ● Pasvalays (town in Lithuania) ● Patterns ● Peace ● People
(all cultures, all races) ● Pets ● Philosophy ● Photographs ● Photography ● Pitchers (especially tiny ones) ● Pine-cones ● Plant Seeds ● Playing
Tick-Tack-Toe while in the Hospital ● Poetry ● Pūkelis (pet dog in Lithuania) ● Puzzles ● Quality TV Programs ● Rabbits ● Radio ● Rainbows in the Skies ● Reading ● Recipes ● Robbins ● Rocks ● Rock Gardens ● Romance Novels ● Romantic
Movies ● Roxie (pet dog for 11 years in Chicago) ● Scented Herbs ● Science ● Seashells ● Seashore ● "Service Merchandise" (store in Chicago, closed long time ago) ● Sewing ● Singing ● Skating (in her youth) ● Skiing (in her youth) ● Skies
● Spring ● Squirrels (made sure they had peanuts, especially in wintertime) ● Stars ● Stars and Stripes (Flag of the U.S.A.) ● Stones ● Stories ● Summer ● Sun ● Sunrise ● Sunset ● Sunshine ● Šaltibarščiai su bulvytėmis (cold beet soup with potatoes) ● Talking to
Little Children ● Tea ● Ten Commandments ● Tennis (in her youth) ● Thanksgiving ● The Bill of Rights ● The Center in Palos Park ● Train Trips
● Trispalvė (Flag of Independent Lithuania) ● Trees ● Truth ● U.S.A. ● Vast Scenery ● Vilnius (town in Lithuania) ● Ukraine ● Walking her Dog ● Walks in
the Park ● Watching Figure Skating ● Wild Flowers ● Wilderness ● Winter ● Wisconsin ● Wisconsin Dells ● Word Search Puzzles ● Writing ● Yellow Finches ● Zuikis (pet dog in Lithuania) ● Zylės (chickadees)
- To my disappointment, mom had no use for COMPUTERS (she understood their value, yet felt it was too late to start learning how to use them), and did not have a Cell Phone (these small gadgets are of no use to people with poor hearing and eyesight.)
- To my surprise, my mother always was a model patient with much love, respect, and gratitude for her doctors, nurses, and staff, no matter how difficult and serious her condition would become.
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