How Was My Week? It Had Its Ups and Downs.

By Jan Chait Maybe we should all pack day bags with our diabetes essentials in them when we go out to events. Say to watch a parade, or a ballgame, engage in a day of shopping…or cheer on somebody running a marathon. What would you — and I — need if, say, a bomb went off and we unexpectedly ended up in a hospital or couldn't get home or our hotel was off limits (or partially gone)? It's something to think about. Along with "what's this world coming to, anyway?" My weekend was busy. We had a gardening resource fair at the synagogue and I took a portable garden that was two feet by four feet and set it on a table, along with some seeds for radishes, spring onions, lettuce, peas, and calendula (it's a flower with edible petals) and let children who wanted to get their hands dirty plant about half of it. It was divided into one-foot squares, so they'd plant a square, then label it. After that was over, we gathered up the garden, seeds, and a plant blanket and took it a couple of blocks down to a small nursing home where they were happy to have something else for the residents to do. I say that not to pat myself on the back, but to suggest something you might do for a nursing home or two in your community. If it's placed on a table, people can sit and garden. My honey-do dude got three four-foot lengths of boards that were two inches thick and eight inches wide, cut one board in half and made the two-foot-by-four-foot garden: Put a piece of plywood on the bot...
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