Maria and I went to Country Power Products this morning to pick up some vegetable plants that John Rieger, the owner, donated for Bishop Gibbons’s gardens. We have also purchased $300 worth of spring 2023 bulbs.

The vegetables will go to local food pantries; the flowers will go to nearby nursing homes and be distributed by the students from Bishop Gibbons as part of their community service work.

The bulbs will arrive in the fall, the plants are doing to the school on Thursday. Maria will help plant them while I will be interviewing a teacher.

The two gardens are beautiful; they are right behind the main building and look like they have been neglected for a while. Sue is a passionate gardener; they will soon be thriving.

John said we could take as many as we wished, but time was getting short. They need to be planted soon.

Next week is exciting. More dental work Monday morning, the Mansion Men’s Group on Tuesday, and Bishop Gibbons on Thursday. Just outside of Schenectady, we discovered a Korean and Indian restaurant side by side in a small shopping mall. Future lunches of Jon and Maria.

Below: Bishop Gibbons’s “Mary Garden,” home of the new flower bulbs.

The following week we will launch an inexpensive, but intensely creative new Amazon Wish List for the new Bishop Gibbons revived art program by Sue Silverstein. I hope we fill the lobby with art supplies dropped off by USPS, Fedex, and UPS.

Life is what we make of it. Life is good.