We had a nice Thanksgiving.... We stayed home and spent the day by our selves. I cooked a turkey and a few of Toms favorite fixings to go with it.....We watched part of the parade on T V and of coarse there is always the football games..........
Tom was getting antsy about Martin and Fisher trapping season to open so Jason took him to the woods for a couple of days to run skidder.... I don't know how well he functioned but I did have a talk with Jason before I'd let him go......
After the second day I seen the sparkle in his eyes for logging was gone......He was tired and didn't have any stories to tell...... That's a first!
But the long awaited trapping season is open now.....Tom's happy and set a bunch of traps ........ He claims he set around 30 traps.... lol He doesn't own that many traps?
As they say...the mice will play when the cat's away....... SO I called my daughter to bring out the grandsons to help me get some much needed things done..... OF coarse Maggie, Lilly and Emily had the time of there lives..... tearing around with the boys.
Tom was getting antsy about Martin and Fisher trapping season to open so Jason took him to the woods for a couple of days to run skidder.... I don't know how well he functioned but I did have a talk with Jason before I'd let him go......
After the second day I seen the sparkle in his eyes for logging was gone......He was tired and didn't have any stories to tell...... That's a first!
But the long awaited trapping season is open now.....Tom's happy and set a bunch of traps ........ He claims he set around 30 traps.... lol He doesn't own that many traps?
As they say...the mice will play when the cat's away....... SO I called my daughter to bring out the grandsons to help me get some much needed things done..... OF coarse Maggie, Lilly and Emily had the time of there lives..... tearing around with the boys.
The boys were FUN and a LOT of help......Sanj helped me cut up a bunch of lumber to make a few more useful tables... Tom steals "my one" I built for "my use" and yells at me for having "my stuff" on it. Grrrrrr......
Yesterday I put two tables together while Tom was out checking traps.... I was trying to hurry as I didn't want his help if he got home before I finished.... In hurrying I managed to drop a board on my big toe, spraining it and smashing my thumb with the hammer. O U C H!!!*#*&+%#
When he got home he was smiling as he had caught two Pine Marten......... He proudly brought them in and put them on the table???? in the laundry room.
"So what did you do today?" he asked. "Oh just monkey-ed around" I replied. "You did something... I can tell!" "I smashed my toe and my thumb" I blurted without thinking : 0
Okay..... NOW I DID IT! I just broke all the rules of talking to someone with Alzheimers..... He had a confused look on his face.......I pretended not to notice.........I went on to explained that I made some tables while he was gone... He said "don't do that stuff anymore when I'm not here to help"
"So do you like your tables? The one in the laundry room is taller so you don't have to bend over and strain your back when your skinning......... I explained.
"Oh you put longer legs on "THE" table? " he asked. "Longer legs yes but NEW table"... I replied thinking he got it. Than I pointed out the other table explaining it had shorter legs as he uses that one to roll cigarettes while watching T V sitting in his rocking chair.
"OH you put shorter legs on THE table...how did you do that?" OH BOY!!!! I really have him messed up now and in the same small room sits the original...."MY TABLE"
SO I took him back to the laundry room pointing out this was a new table built taller just for using in that room. Than I took him back to the other room and pointed out I made that table to fit up to his chair AND the third table was the original and IT WAS MINE!!!!!!
So he looked at the original table and asked where that one came from......ARG!
I finally got him to understand that there was a total of THREE tables and two were new...... "sigh!
Yesterday I put two tables together while Tom was out checking traps.... I was trying to hurry as I didn't want his help if he got home before I finished.... In hurrying I managed to drop a board on my big toe, spraining it and smashing my thumb with the hammer. O U C H!!!*#*&+%#
When he got home he was smiling as he had caught two Pine Marten......... He proudly brought them in and put them on the table???? in the laundry room.
"So what did you do today?" he asked. "Oh just monkey-ed around" I replied. "You did something... I can tell!" "I smashed my toe and my thumb" I blurted without thinking : 0
Okay..... NOW I DID IT! I just broke all the rules of talking to someone with Alzheimers..... He had a confused look on his face.......I pretended not to notice.........I went on to explained that I made some tables while he was gone... He said "don't do that stuff anymore when I'm not here to help"
"So do you like your tables? The one in the laundry room is taller so you don't have to bend over and strain your back when your skinning......... I explained.
"Oh you put longer legs on "THE" table? " he asked. "Longer legs yes but NEW table"... I replied thinking he got it. Than I pointed out the other table explaining it had shorter legs as he uses that one to roll cigarettes while watching T V sitting in his rocking chair.
"OH you put shorter legs on THE table...how did you do that?" OH BOY!!!! I really have him messed up now and in the same small room sits the original...."MY TABLE"
SO I took him back to the laundry room pointing out this was a new table built taller just for using in that room. Than I took him back to the other room and pointed out I made that table to fit up to his chair AND the third table was the original and IT WAS MINE!!!!!!
So he looked at the original table and asked where that one came from......ARG!
I finally got him to understand that there was a total of THREE tables and two were new...... "sigh!
OH----- HE LOVES HIS TABLES......... He says they are perfect! : )
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