Little jobs

             John has always been happy doing little jobs for me.  Like taking the clothes off the clothes line, unloading the dishwasher, moving the garage bins to the street on Monday evening.

               Most of the time, John can get the dishes out of the machine to the counter but he has no idea where in the cabinet they go, anymore.  I have to open the doors and point to the stack of plates or show him where the glasses go.  The draw for the sliverware is next to the dishwasher but he can't remember the location.   I noticed last week, after doing the top rake of dishes he walked away, his attention span  doesn't hold long enough to completely unload the whole dishwasher.
 
               The garage bins, I now take to the street.  The length of conversation to help him understand the project of wheeling the bin to the street is simply too tiering for me to do, anymore.  But there was a new twist to it last week, it made me do a double take.  In our driveway were the bins of our neighbor's.  Which neighbor, I am not sure,  but John decided to wheel more than our share of them back after seeing the truck go though.  A couple months ago he moved ours down along the side that neighbor's driveway.  I would call that dating garbage cans, I guess!

 the clothesline inside

Gardening about 10 days ago I wanted to finish up a detail I was working on and John was circling and circling restless and wanting to go inside.  Finally, I asked him to take the clothes off the clothes line to distract him for a few minutes.   I lifted my head occasionally and saw he just could not get the idea correct of what to do.  He would take the blue jeans off and fold in half and put back on the line have on each side with new clothes pins.  In the end, it occupied him for five minutes and he was back asking, "when are we going home?"


          I walked over and the two of us took the clothes off the line and went indoors so I could start supper.  The next day, while walking thought the living room I found John's handy work on the back of a chair.