Friday, September 19, 2008
What A Day!
A beautiful 70 degrees outside with blue skies, and several spears on the Butterfly bush almost through blooming. It did take on some height this last month as you can see by the white stake beside it.
Yesterday Cindy and David came up to help us do what needed to be done and it was quite a day. David moved the air conditioner out of the kitchen window and down into the basement for the winter. He put the screen back up for me. He set up my sewing machine so I could do some mending for Cindy. His next assignment was to take me shopping at the grocery store. I chose to use the wheelchair rather than the motorized chair provided by the store. A fear of running some one down was the basic reason. Any way we started with a list about 30 or so items long. I took the lead and David followed behind me pulling the cart. The things I could reach he took from me to place in the cart. Those that I couldn’t get he reached for and place them there also. He did a retrace for a couple of items that I had passed by originally without complaint. Actually a very pleasant time spent together for me at least.
Cindy made my bed with clean sheets while I mended some things for her. She was busy getting my thread box, the scissors, and patching material from around the house. She generally straightened things and then she took Jay to Sam’s Club for the needed staples there. The list wasn’t as long as the grocery store but the store being bigger meant getting around needed more stamina than I had.
When both trucks were back home and the groceries were put away we went out to Millington for supper. After supper Cindy, David and I played Rummy and Jay slept on the couch. We played only one game and I won it. We had accomplished some chores, did the shopping , and still had time to chat a bit before they left for home.
Today was a bit of a lazy day. I worked on my needlepoint while Jay was at dialysis. I did the usual feed the pets, gather up clothes for the washer, fill the dishwasher, and straighten the counters and tables.
This evening our friend Edna showed up with this project for us to do tomorrow.
You are looking at what we hope will be home canned Cinnamon Pears before we are through. They came from a tree in Edna’s yard bless her heart. Even with a hubby under the weather she still took time to gather these for us. Thank you Edna.
