Holiday thank you message

 Thank you for remembering Shirley. I have read her your messages over the phone or taken your cards over to her room at Water's Edge Care Center.  Not much changed in 2022 except for building a pole barn and buying some land on a swampy lake to merge with our lot (now we have a lake place) to play the Medicaid game for when Shirley's LTC insurance runs out in four years. Hope you survive the snow and can dig yourselves out in Spring. (OK I know a few of you do not not know what snow looks like any more) . What follows is our year in pictures. 

Shirley is about the same.

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Shirley's Christmas present is an original oriental painting
done by a former coworker of Bruce's. 
  

Bruce came home from the cabin one Saturday
and did nor feel like zipping up the doors in the dark.
That night there were some strong winds that shredded
the plastic. The temporary garage was there to protect
the mobility van from hail.

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Three days or so after the garage shredded a big hail
 storm came up from the 'cities' and cost the
insurance companies $7,000 to fix the hail damage
to Shirley's van and about $17,000 for a new roof. 

The new pole barn under construction. 

The food plots are showing some progress but the deer all
find safer places to eat during the hunting season.

 

The imaginary bowl business may be entering a new phase
 with a distributor agreeing to sell the bowls at consignment
at various craft shows. So far none have sold. 

This is Bruce's Christmas present.  He uses it to get sympathy
 from all the young women in the nursing home. 

Wishing all of you a great 2023.

Shirley and Bruce