Disability Cooperation

With one very sore shoulder and one very sore rib cage, this old couple is managing. 

Saturday is washing day, although finishing loads are done on Sunday. It was time to change the sheets, even though I haven’t been using the bed for several weeks. Sue managed to get the old sheets off but needed help getting the clean ones on. It’s not easy with these modern, thick mattresses on king-size beds, but with a little cooperation, we managed.

Sue sorted the laundry appropriately. I dragged the baskets down, and Sue loaded the washer. When it was done, I emptied the washer, filled the dryer, and emptied both. It's a pain for Sue and her ribs, for the washer is top-loaded and deep, and the dryer is front-loaded and extends back forever.

In the afternoon, Shauna was conscripted to decorate the planters in front of the garage for Christmas. In addition to being decorative, the planters also serve the dual function of creating a buffer in front of the garage doors. This will help to keep the snowplow guy from banging into the garage door — not that he seems to do this on properties that don’t keep planters there. He did crack a planter once, so I guess it is good to have that buffer.

In the morning, we managed to get the work area set up for Shauna in the afternoon.

Sue would have trouble decorating the planters by herself this year, and since she doesn’t wish to entrust the job to the male of the house, she asked Shauna to do the honours. Now, Shauna has her own problems with her neck, so we got the planters and decorations onto tables for her, and she went at it.

A composite of the two flower pots. Sha did a good job.
We should have a proper photo of both pots with the garage door closed,
but we didn't get around to it, and then it was dark.

Sue and I have also cooperated to bring a few decorations up from the basement. She chooses, I carry, and once up, she arranges. It won't be as fulsome of a display as in some years, but it will be enough. There are other decorations in the house, but this is the view we will see most often.

When we are not actively watching tv, it will run Christmas scenes until January.

JJ helped by bringing the carousel (behind him) up for us, along with some other items, like our little Christmas tree (not shown here).

Amongst the four of us, we gotter done.

I mean five of us.