May at last

May 2011

Well, here it is finally Spring and we are so glad. The grass is green and the white birch woodland out front is no longer sheltering pockets of snow. It was a long winter with lots of snow ----just like the old days. The flower beds out front are bravely challenging the cool weather. The pearly grey bark of the shrubs, make a nice color complement to the yellow daffodils and the cobalt blue, cream and pale pink hyacinths. Their perfume is the fragrance of spring.

We spent some nice weeks preparing for the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate. Of course we needed tea hats to dress up in. So the summer straw hats were decorated with head bands and silk flowers. And the ladies were very pleased with their head gear. Of course they wore hats all the time in the old days and enjoyed having an excuse to wear a hat again.  I finally found a use for the upholstery fabric sample book I had sitting in a closet taking up space. It was a book of shiny satins perfect for the hand bands.  With a seam or two on a sewing machine and the hot glue gun we were in business.

 Of course we needed decorations. We had a gorgeous full length satin brocade wedding dress displayed on a dress dummy with a long veil. We had a nice framed portrait of the young couple on display also.  Then we had our party.  We drank hot tea poured from our new to us silver tea pot and out of fine china tea cups. We served slices of a jam layer cake with marzipan frosting the looked as good, as it tasted.

So the ball game continues to be very popular. The residents all have fun with our toss and throw game. We call it boomerang- fumble ball. Because it always seems to come back to the thrower and the fumbles are spectacular and lots of fun. Recently we acquired 18 additional balls .We are  learning a series of isometric exercises and a ball each makes it more pleasurable. Of course no one can resist the fun a new bouncy ball and a healthy chaos ensued the first time we brought the balls out. We look forward to a Chi Te demonstration in the new future. The sky is the limit.

With the fine weather here we can get outside for walks as often as we wish. We have such a nice setting here and always praise the forethought that kept the natural woodland in place here for all to enjoy.

Keep checking in on us. We never run out of ideas to share and like to hear from all of you.

Julia

Activities Director