This is what we created in today’s Arts and Crafts.
With my focus on downsizing non-essentials … wanting to learn to live with less … for sure relocate with less, I had no plans to attend this morning’s Community Room activity.
However, Apache was so pleased with the needlepoint I gifted him that he asked me to come down and sign it. So down I went and signed on the cardboard backing.
The class project looked so interesting, that I stuck around.
We started with a mason jar, bag of glass beads and crazy glue.
Turning the jar upside down and starting at the neck, we began gluing beads.
(Upside down because the downward weight of the beads helps to hold other beads in place as they dry).
That’s all there was to it; after which, we were given a little votive to use the jar as a candle holder.
Some of the ladies got really creative.
While we were creating, one of the ladies -- sitting facing the window, yelled out, “That car about knocked the tree down!”
The person got out of the car to check the damage. Lo and behold, it was the woman The Baker and I had assisted a few weeks ago who could not remember where she lived ... the woman who had a cell phone but did not know how to use it, did not know where her car was parked but knew it was green.
She was so befuddled during that episode that, upon hearing she had a car, The Baker had exclaimed, “They let this woman drive!”
Once out of the car, checking the damage to her bumper, she threw her hands up in the air and looked even more befuddled this time.
People went out to help but the woman was so frantic and confused as to be unreachable. I watched as she got back into the car, drove up to and behind a car entering the gate and followed that car in ... following behind so closely that I thought she was going to hit that car as well.
If she thinks that's the end of it, it's not.
Nurse Ratched was away at lunch, but the Gardner saw the happening, and soon thereafter the Cute Maintenance Supervisor appeared, looked at the tree, shook his head and started laughing. So Nurse Ratched will be told and, by checking the front entrance video tape, can track the resident down.
Inasmuch as the tree appears to lean now, there will be consequences ... possibly money damages for the flowers and charges if the tree has to be roped in place to heal.
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From the resident's actions of hitting the tree, then following a car so closely into the gate, we deduced she did not know how to use her card to open the gate, had been driving around the parking area trying to figure out what to do, and managed to back over the red border, into the flower bed, all the way up against the tree.
I'm sorry, but that woman should not be driving. Her husband needs to take away her keys and her car before she wrecks someone else's car or harms a human.
I have never understood why family members allow people like this lady to drive. Of course, the family members may be afraid to take the necessary action of taking away the keys. My husband's mother ran into her condo complex fence twice before she was finally told she couldn't drive. Actually, they didn't have to tell her because her car was so badly damaged that it was underivable and the insurance would not repair it a second time. Her three sons had been too cowardly to take away the keys. I told my husband, "when she hits a person, and the story is on the front page of the paper, YOU will be responsible."
ReplyDeleteI imagine her husband is too afraid of her anger to put his foot down, but her anger is going to be the least of his worries if he doesn't find the courage.
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