Oh what a delight to see in the gardens!

Yesterday late morning, I went out to do a quick shopping for one Deaf elderly chap who is 90 years old.

By the shrove, see a beautiful rose shrub showing the display of white-yellowish roses out in the bleak, cloudy morning. A rose shrub is a perfect place by the ramp of the house in the long driveway, bringing a welcome greeting to anyone to visit him.

Earlier late winter season this year, he asked me to prune the rose because his late, Deaf elderly brother was no longer there to do the pruning. I pruned, removed the old, worn branches and finally trimmed to tidy up the space for the air circulating inside the rose shrub.

Voila, he was delighted to see blooming now while his sister travelled to see him over the weekend. She was pleased with the fabulous display and took rose cutting home, where she placed it in the vase.

Last weekend I visited another Deaf CP elderly man, 71 years old, and he told me that he was busy doing a weeding in the front side long strip garden under the window the day before I saw him. He was pleased to see his flower shrubs starting to display under the window where he could look out from the room. Oh, what a fantastic result to show off with his proud work!

I recalled several years back when he asked me to get flower shrubs for the bare garden so that nothing would grow there. I bought several iris bulbs, a violet creeper carpet from our garden, and two more shrubs from the plant centre.

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” Desmond Tutu

Looking at them, I meet weekly routines, and they often throw their requests at me for their needs or to ask for something they saw on the news from the television news programme. It is about bringing together and having conversations in sign language so they feel included on cold dark days. It is the essential key goal for our lives to ensure everyone is okay, the need of daily basic necessary things around home and garden.

Today is a rainy day, and I have two jobs to do and face the wet weather I loathe. There is nothing I can do, and I will continue to outshine the dark, gloomy day for one person and possibly teach a small ‘turn up’ audience for the class at the library.

This photo below is a perfect reflecting to look out from the kitchen window each day, but not today.

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” Helen Keller