The Week is Closing Down
The last thing we had wanted to do today was to make a trip to Mankato. Every year Denis qualifies via the Veteran’s Clinic to receive a pair of shoes with the specific orthotics to make up for the lack of toes on his left foot. The VA sends a prescription to the Limb Lab in Mankato and they allow us to know when we can come to their clinic.
This morning Dennis, one foot at a time, had a laser image taken of each foot. The orthotic is thus built. The right foot also has an orthotic to make sure Dennis will walk evenly.
Anyway, in three weeks we will be notified when the shoes are at Limb Lab. It was great to be home by noon.
There was a huge flat box on the front deck from the mail delivery. The Fairfax family are frequent visitors to Goodwill. In the mail they sent me a portable padded mat for pressing. Wow. It will be perfect to pin and and stretch stitched items. Quite a few useful items have been added to the studio via Fairfax. Kersten thinks nothing of having a dozen or more items each day being sent out via the post office of eBay items she has sold. I am sure she could land a job in any retail store at Christmas time for special gift wrapping. I called her to give her a huge thanks.
As I sit in my bedroom porch using the laptop, I have a full view out to the south. Our neighbor to the south has been fighting the wonderful aluminum storm windows of days gone by. It was the in-thing to conserve energy and get rid of the heavy wooden storm windows that needed changing out if you wanted a breath of fresh air from windows being opened after a long cloistered winter. Oh how those suckers could get blessed. Been there . . . done that.
The southeast wind is harsh. Perhaps we will make it to the weekend without rain.
With that I take my leave. ♥