Sunday, September 26, 2021

Sunday, September 26, 2021

Tonight's picture was taken in September of 2008. Mattie was in the outpatient clinic, and working at his favorite place... the art table. Mattie did not like the outpatient clinic as much as the inpatient setting. I am not sure why, perhaps it was because he spent most of his time inpatient and that environment and the people there were more familiar to him. However, when he was in the outpatient clinic, he always went straight for the art area. Mattie was all about creating, building, and having people join in his plan. 

Quote of the day: Today's coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins. 

• Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 42,931,259
• Number of people who died from the virus: 688,032

Peter and I spent a good portion of the day trying to unpack things we had stacked in the basement. We were at it for about six hours. While I was unpacking, Peter was working on building out the storage closet, so that I have a place to organize and store things. 

Today's progress! In our townhouse in DC, I had an amazing walk in closet. You wouldn't believe all that I stored in there! It was impressive, but I was only able to do that because Peter installed shelving for me. We actually dismantled our shelving in DC and brought it to the house. 

Some of the items I had to organize were photos! That is NEVER easy. I went through some of the books I created over the years. This is of course before digital photography. In any case, I took this photo years ago of Peter trying to work and Patches, our calico, providing supervision. 

Peter obviously took this photo of me. This was life as a graduate student. Books and papers everywhere. I don't miss those days at all. 

In our basement, there is a storage closet. But in all reality, there was NO storage. That is until Peter spent some time with this closet today. 

Peter's handy work! This will give me lots of places to organize and store Mattie's things, Foundation things, and whatever else comes our way!