The second month has come and gone, with many privileges and visitors. February was our special meeting month, which means we had a few days of visits from our staff and the visiting workers. The workers convene here at PG for a workers meeting, to enable our worker residents to be included. We invite the friends to come attend a luncheon after. Here are a few pictures of the festivities and the workers picture.





We had so many workers visiting and several wanted to visit our Park Manor residents as well. Stacey Seidlitz went for a lovely visit with everyone there. Here they are enjoying their old friends.



Resident Journals
Ruth Henderson
Ruth does very well. All the walking continues to pay off. She hasn’t tried her usual walk of going to the gate and back, but does make her way to the mailbox and down to the pond at least once a day. Owen and Susan Henderson are visiting her today, they know Irving well and he enjoyed visiting with them also. Here they are on the porch and again playing Ruth a little tune.


Irving Ross
Irving spent a week in the hospital, then a week at Park Manor nursing home for PT and OT. He has been back here at PG for 2 weeks. He was very motivated to excel at his physical therapy because he wanted to return to us. He was walking so fast the nurses had to ask him to slow down so they could evaluate him! Here he is with Susan Henderson, Ronald and Alice.


Naomi Watson
Naomi had quite a few visitors this month. Her niece, Nita Stutson, came with her son, Scott, and his wife, Kelli, from Florida. They were happy to lend a hand and even decorated for Valentines Day. Naomi’s son, Kevin, and his wife, Kathy, came to visit at the same time. Here the Stutsons are with Naomi at the cabin, and all of them together on the patio.


Gwen Farmer
Gwen really enjoyed a personal visit from Lotty Hapner this month. She came on her own for a long one on one visit with Gwen about their time together in South Korea in 1986. She was in a few of her gospel meetings and went to a few of the friends homes for visits. Gwen decided to make some Korean medicine for us, since there has been a bug going around. Here she is in the kitchen making her special dish, and again as a staple part of the “puzzle crew”.



Esther Duncan
Esther continues to do well, walking everyday and sending her letters. She is one of the few that insists on walking all the way to the gate. Good for her!
Doreen Beyer
Doreen stays the same, helping in the kitchen as much as she can and watching out for the others. She has taken to sitting by Irving during meals, ready to lend a hand if needed. Here she is visiting Irving at Park Manor and again with some visitors, Mike and Faith Braaksma, Jane Jacobson, Roger Birkhofer and Don Schroeder.


Emma Perez
Emma does great, she continues her calls and correspondence with many South Houston friends. Some friends sent her some red and green mole for us to try, and she made it up with chicken, rice and tortillas. Wonderful!
Marie Mounce
Marie has slowed a little, mostly tired and sleeping more. She has some hearing trouble, but can comprehend and carry on a conversation as long as you have her attention. She still gets excited to cook or bake, and made some wonderful banana muffins this month.
Roberta Stipp and Elsie Schroeder
Elsie and Roberta continue to keep at those puzzles. Life long friend and someone who considers herself Elsie’s daughter, Eileen Weiss, was here. She stayed for a week and paid close attention to Roberta and Elsie. Elsie responds great to personal attention, conversation, reminiscing and story telling. Also, her daughter, Carol Aarestad, and grand daughter, Amelia, came at the same time. They too enjoyed paying special attention to Elise and Roberta. Here they are at various points around PG.



Alice Oetken, Ronald Elliott, Gilbert Reese, Fern Duncan, Joyce Naber
All of the Park Manor 5 continue to do well, by their standards. Gilbert, Ronald, Alice and Joyce usually enjoy most of their meals together, even though there may not be much conversation, they still know they would rather be with each other. Fern had a spell and a few days in the hospital. Since then she has been much less able to communicate.




Farm
February started out cold after the January freeze, but that changed to warm for most of the month. We’re mowing grass, trees are budding, kids are swimming. It’s beautiful but scary… if this if February, what will August be like!
Our wildlife still has plenty to eat and we often catch the deer happily grazing along the wood line.



We’ve started a big project to clean out the pond beside the log cabin where Ken and Kathy live. We’ve managed to empty it, and hope to dig out the muck in March. What a muddy mess!

Thanks for your interest and care for all of us here.
Ken and Kenny














































































































































