A Garden for Bruce

   Our friend Newt came over and is going to build a net cage for Bruce's blueberries and a two foot tall raised bed for strawberries and he will put down paver stones so Bruce can get in the garden area and putter around all year. He said we could use his pickup to get the wood and supplies. 

  Ryan is coming over on Friday and will remove the shorter posts, then they will just build a two by four frame for the top and drape the net. He has some kind of removable tie clip so Bruce can open the net and and pick or trim. 

Our cleaning friend, Jessee came this morning and limped around and sat with ice for awhile but she got the job done. She has broken her foot.

  I finished my demo blocks for Thursday, a ha stag and an asterisk and a string top. I'll have to remove the paper from the back this evening. 

 

 I gave all three males a haircut last night. They are looking shaven and shorn.

 Today was the last day for one of our home health helpers. She is moving to Tennessee. We will miss her and her spontaneous helpful personality. She would see something needed to be done and she would do it.

 The new gal will get more hours and the other helper will switch her time around so she has weekends for grandchildren. 

   Got to go to a potluck picnic in the park on Wednesday. The younger moms sat with the girls their age and us older ladies stayed together. Three of our quilting friends came. It was fun to talk to them.

I gave away some of my hats. I hope the children will play with them. 

  Bruce was able to do water angels in the pool on Wednesday. Like we make snow angels in the snow in winter.

   Saturday we will go buy wood to build a cage for the blueberries. The birds are eating them. It is wood and netting, we are hiring a friend to do the work, he is unemployed. His garden is gorgeous. They will put paving stones down for Bruces wheelchair and make a raised bed 2 feet high so Bruce can reach it. When he stands we will make it taller. 

  Ryan came over and trimmed the ever growing blackberries from the plum tree, he removed the short 4x4 posts and got two of the holes dug deeper. Bruce wants them in 2 feet deep.

  They have gripper bars in the women's shower room at the hospital. Bruce uses those and pulls himself out of the chair. He is able to stand for a couple of minutes. This week they upped the regime for him. They added a walker. Bruce was able to pull himself up and then he had to leer his hands to grip the walker. He said he was only able to stand for 30 min. He did it three times. He said he was exhausted, like he had just finished a race.