September 9, 2006

Today, after Gary was fortified with locally made chocolate almond coconut ice cream in a cone, we went on another trek to the wilds of Lowe’s, for things like another waste basket and rubber padding to put his hot food on when he is carrying it on his lap, and to Krogers, for food, to Walgreens, for some supplies for Gary, and to the health food store for more food. Gary had to do quite a bit of wheeling around at Lowe’s in order for us to locate our items, and he was pleased that his shoulders had no problem with it whatsoever. I had been encouraging him to go out on “pushes” to get the exercise, but he had been leery of the effect of doing such on his shoulders (he thinks doing so many at Shepherd was actually detrimental to his shoulders, though at the same time they built his endurance), so maybe this is a sign that soon he will be able to make such pushes a part of his exercise routine.

It took us about an hour to get the things at Lowe’s. Our bill came to about $11. We spent an hour at Kroger. Our bill came to about $150. Yikes! That’s a lot of zucchini! ;-) Total time shopping, three and half hours. Oh, what fun ;-)