Mom and Dad S Come to Help

Dad learns how to can spaghetti sauce

 

And he spent some time in Patrick's shop constructing some pinterest items for me.

There is no way to describe the help that my Mom and Dad were for 3 1/2  weeks post-op. No pictures are available of mom's projects but they were many and varied. Mom daily spent about 4 hours in the yard and garden.  She alone took care of tomatoes, bell peppers, weeding, trimming, watering, deadheading flowers, chicken feeding and the list goes on.  The yard would look like a jungle if her work had gone undone. And she was in her glory.  In addition to yard work she painted the handrail that goes to the attic.  I had sorta prepped it this winter but never got around to actually painting it.  Mom came to the rescue. She also stained/sealed the back outdoor sink surround as it was in dire need.  It now looks beautiful and repels water nicely.  She was the laundry queen and on top of all that she was able to find some time to quilt each day when it got too hot outside.

 

Dad took care of food mostly.  As you can see he was able to can the spaghetti sauce when I was sick,  hurting and out of commission.  He prepped dinner each night, went to the grocery store, kept Patrick company and then spent time doing some projects for me that I had seen on pinterest.  I had wanted this cool drying rack for the laundry room to go above the wall where we earlier had installed the tongue 'n groove boards.  Other than some of the hardware and the dowels, it is all scraps.  The green board is leftover from house construction as there is a section of our kitchen cabinets that have this board behind the shelves.  He used some scrap wood Pat had down in the shop to make the frame. It turned out just as I envisioned. So now the laundry room wall is decorated. Yeah.

 

He also made a quilting ruler holder for my sewing room.  He actually made two as Mom got one also.  I had seen this on pinterest also and it is a great way to organize my quilting rulers.  I have extra slots for future rulers.  Again this was scrap wood- only this time from "Uncle Tim's home depot".

 

Mom and Dad also got to spend some time with Carrie, Sean and the kids and Sharee had a bunch of produce to process from the farmer's market so she spent several days using the kitchen and teaching Mom all sorts of ways to preserve the harvest. 

 

Oh, and they helped Patrick out also.....the reason they came in the first place.