This morning, we are off to fulfill Sue Silverstein’s first request for the Army Of Good and Bishop Gibbons High School.

She is working on reviving two neglected gardens in the school. She wants three hundred bulbs for a flower garden so the refugee students can bring flowers to the nursing homes near the school.

John Rieger at Country Products (where I’m getting the bulbs) has also offered me as many vegetable plants as I want for free so Sue can also grow vegetables next Spring for the food pantries in Schenectady. John is a kind and generous man.

I already raised the $300 for the bulbs, and the vegetables are free. We will bring them to Bishop Gibbons on Thursday, our next planned visit.

Sue is not only the art teacher but is in charge of the Community Service programs all Catholic Schools incorporate into their academic curriculum. I also plan to interview an exceptionally dedicated and committed English teacher named Trish White this week.

She and I are also going to talk bout the possibility of my teaching a creative writing class, as I did at Bishop Maginn. Maria has agreed to teach a lesson in making lap quilts for the elderly care residents in facilities around the school.

Bishop Gibbons is the perfect place for us and for the work we hope to do.

I loved doing it. Today, a planned quiet day, shopping, chores, reading, and some quiet and meditation time.

Next week we’ll launch an Amazon Bishop Gibbons Art Supplies Wish List for Sue’s new and greatly expanded art program. I will announce this on the blog, and hopefully, we can flood the lobby with art supplies as we have done before. They urgently need them.

I hope we can let them know we are here and willing to support the school as best we can in difficult times. We’ll post the wish list sometime next week. I’ll be checking in on the garden for more photos; I wouldn’t dare skip a day at this point.

Thanks for the kind words about the photos.

(Photo above. Fanny knows how to scratch her bug bites.)