Yesterday the president called and said that I needed to sign up to go to the UCLA training the first of August. Sue is coming too. All the CTA pros get a chance to give us their best advice about negotiaions and law and budget and other areas. It looks like we will have over 5 from our unit going.
We stay in a handicap room in the dorm and eat the food on the meal ticket. At night they have some events for us and with a car we can go anywhere in the basin... like mecca?
It ought to be more fun now that Sue is a year more proficent with the power chair. Last year when we went they had just finished getting the chair matched up to the lift and we were all pretty much rookies in a strange land. We both will know a little more about what to expect this year.
Yesterday i picked up the chair that was repaired up in Turlock. The handle had come off of it and the joystick and the controller hand to be replaced... 1,900 dollars later it is great. We are now talking about getting rid of the swing bar and replacing it with the adjustment parts that will not allow the back door to open (110) I think that this will allow for the chair to sit higher. It also decreases our ability to open the back door of the expedition. The replacement of the swing bar that I dragged out a couple of times with the chair on it.. is more expensive.. 550 without the labor figured in.
I am sure we will figure out one solution or another.. in the mean time PEACHES ARE RIPE..
The peach tree that my sister and brother in law gave to me when we first moved in about 28 years ago continues to produce beautiful peaches every year. It is a Bonanza Peach. It was one of the first truly genetic dwarf peaches produced. It sits on the edge of our lawn and has the look of a Japanese bonzi. I have two other genetic dwarf trees in the front yard. The dwarf nectarine just produced 12 pints and two quarts of jam. I have a little later genetic peach that looks like it has a bumper crop this year too.
Have a great day.
Pat
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