I had a full days work ahead of me Wednesday, cleaning up sand...mud...and dog hair from the past week of rain. The bedding needed changing, the floors needed mopping.....
Tom would be busy making boxes for fall trapping. One day of warm sunny weather and than back to rain. The girls could run and chase squirrels and dig holes......
"MOM!"....... "What dear?".......... "I can't figure out how to put this box together.....could you help me?"...... Sure... just a minute... "as I was in the middle of scrubbing the floors.
He had four boards cut to size and didn't know how to nail them to make the box the right size. So I held them in place so he could pound in a few nails to hold them in place for him........As I looked on the ground he had one made..... and asked for no help on that one..... Later he said "for the life of me I couldn't figure out how those boards went and I tried and tried....it just didn't make any sense."
The next day was a rainy day so I took him to town for something to do..... we went to Kmart to buy him some tee shirts....... He couldn't find the mens department which has been in the same spot since the place was built....... Once there he found some tee shirts he liked...... I sent him out to the van with the girls as I waited in line......
Tom did rather well with all of that.... stopped at Menards for a piece of dryer pipe and two nuts for the lawn mower.... the nuts that hold the blades got stripped when Tom removed them this last time.....We didn't have the nuts with but he knew the socket size he used to remove them......we bought the nuts he thought would work.....
He decided he wanted to stop at Nappa on the way home and make another attempt at getting the right nuts..... So we did........ We probably shouldn't have though. I ended up sending Tom out to the van with his two nuts for the lawn mower while I was paying for them and apologizing for Toms behavior and explained he had Alzheimers......... The guy didn't say anything but I seen the muscles in his face relax and it wasn't that deep shade of red that it was ......I took that as a sign that he accepted my apology.
After snow and rain today we are suppose to get a few sunny days ..... I have to say I'm looking forward to that........
Oh Look..... Tom picked me some flowers......
Tom would be busy making boxes for fall trapping. One day of warm sunny weather and than back to rain. The girls could run and chase squirrels and dig holes......
"MOM!"....... "What dear?".......... "I can't figure out how to put this box together.....could you help me?"...... Sure... just a minute... "as I was in the middle of scrubbing the floors.
He had four boards cut to size and didn't know how to nail them to make the box the right size. So I held them in place so he could pound in a few nails to hold them in place for him........As I looked on the ground he had one made..... and asked for no help on that one..... Later he said "for the life of me I couldn't figure out how those boards went and I tried and tried....it just didn't make any sense."
The next day was a rainy day so I took him to town for something to do..... we went to Kmart to buy him some tee shirts....... He couldn't find the mens department which has been in the same spot since the place was built....... Once there he found some tee shirts he liked...... I sent him out to the van with the girls as I waited in line......
Tom did rather well with all of that.... stopped at Menards for a piece of dryer pipe and two nuts for the lawn mower.... the nuts that hold the blades got stripped when Tom removed them this last time.....We didn't have the nuts with but he knew the socket size he used to remove them......we bought the nuts he thought would work.....
He decided he wanted to stop at Nappa on the way home and make another attempt at getting the right nuts..... So we did........ We probably shouldn't have though. I ended up sending Tom out to the van with his two nuts for the lawn mower while I was paying for them and apologizing for Toms behavior and explained he had Alzheimers......... The guy didn't say anything but I seen the muscles in his face relax and it wasn't that deep shade of red that it was ......I took that as a sign that he accepted my apology.
After snow and rain today we are suppose to get a few sunny days ..... I have to say I'm looking forward to that........
Oh Look..... Tom picked me some flowers......
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