Sunday, May 27, 2018
Tonight's picture was taken in June of 2009. Mattie was home recovering from his third major surgery. I can't tell you how many pink bins like this we had from the hospital, as you get one practically with each admission. What was it for? To catch vomit! As on chemotherapy the volume of fluid that can be expelled is not small. In any case, these bins made wonderful toys when they were in use. Mattie loved to fill them with water, and use them for water play. Since I despised Sponge Bob, the TV character, this inspired Mattie to LOVE him even more. So he would create little replica Sponge Bob's and in this particular case, Sponge Bob (who was literally made out of a sponge), was going to go swimming in Mattie's pool!
Quote of the day: Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. ~ William Morris
Peter and I bought vegetable plants for our neighbor yesterday and today, we went to plant her garden for her. Given that she is older and still recovering from a fall, we decided to help.
This is a view of our deck from Mattie's bedroom window. Which is now my view from my desk! To clean up this space after winter, is always hard. As it involves planting and painting. But when it is done, things always look better. Well that is until you open our shed (the closet behind the BBQ)!
After planting our neighbor's garden, Peter decided to tackle our shed. This is what our shed looked like. It was the catch all for supplies and things.
This is actually a big space to store things! But I haven't seen it cleaned out in a while.
We purged a lot of things and this is the final product. Can you see Mattie's yellow truck? There are some things that Mattie played with outside that I still can't part with. Needless to say, it will be wonderful to open the shed now without things falling out on us.
Peter said this was his best friend today! Our dumpster. We are lucky to have access to dumpsters in our complex. It makes throwing out junk very easy, and basically everything we tossed which was not salvageable went into the recycling dumpster.
Tonight's picture was taken in June of 2009. Mattie was home recovering from his third major surgery. I can't tell you how many pink bins like this we had from the hospital, as you get one practically with each admission. What was it for? To catch vomit! As on chemotherapy the volume of fluid that can be expelled is not small. In any case, these bins made wonderful toys when they were in use. Mattie loved to fill them with water, and use them for water play. Since I despised Sponge Bob, the TV character, this inspired Mattie to LOVE him even more. So he would create little replica Sponge Bob's and in this particular case, Sponge Bob (who was literally made out of a sponge), was going to go swimming in Mattie's pool!
Quote of the day: Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. ~ William Morris
Peter and I bought vegetable plants for our neighbor yesterday and today, we went to plant her garden for her. Given that she is older and still recovering from a fall, we decided to help.
This is a view of our deck from Mattie's bedroom window. Which is now my view from my desk! To clean up this space after winter, is always hard. As it involves planting and painting. But when it is done, things always look better. Well that is until you open our shed (the closet behind the BBQ)!
After planting our neighbor's garden, Peter decided to tackle our shed. This is what our shed looked like. It was the catch all for supplies and things.
This is actually a big space to store things! But I haven't seen it cleaned out in a while.
We purged a lot of things and this is the final product. Can you see Mattie's yellow truck? There are some things that Mattie played with outside that I still can't part with. Needless to say, it will be wonderful to open the shed now without things falling out on us.
Peter said this was his best friend today! Our dumpster. We are lucky to have access to dumpsters in our complex. It makes throwing out junk very easy, and basically everything we tossed which was not salvageable went into the recycling dumpster.
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