Scrunchy and Sponge Bath !

      Home Health Care:  A bath?  Having an aid come into the home in the heat of a pandemic?  

     For some elderly folks,  that's a fearful thought.  Family members  might suggest their  elderly  person give themselves an old fashioned sponge bath. Most  will  remember sponge baths from childhood days:  The wash basin, and a chair or the commode beside it.  A fresh towel and wash cloth.  Soap.  

     Add    a  special scented body wash and a colorful scrub scrunchy!    Gifts perhaps to send?  (A sweet 94 year old lady , who has several bottles of body wash on her wash stand, Mike like a scrunch in pink.) n

     Or maybe  pumpkin autumn orange, like the one shown below.  It’s likely to be found at the pharmacy, on the internet, or at your favorite box store.)  

     My favorite COTA  suggests that the sponge bath begin from the toes on up. 

   

     And  a scrunchy stimulates the skin - which is the largest organ of the body.  And if there is no scrunchy,  then use a second wash cloth.  Exfoliating.  Move upwards towards the heart,  and scrub.  Feet, shins,  knees, thighs, etc. When you get to the face, grab up that fresh wash cloth!  Wash and rinse.  Rub dry with a towel.  

    

 

Bath Scrunchy advertised for sale on Ebay.  

Putting up Preserves and Memories

For my mother, I will put up cucumber relish. 

The recipe she gave me to use, was  on the back of an old blank check. 

She wasn't sure where the recipe came from some many long years ago, but the hand writing looked strangely familiar.    I turned it over and there was her sister's name and information.  

Mother let out a sweet sigh as we  remembered my aunt Rolene.

 I ground up 18 cucumbers and 4 carrots, remembering.    On top of the vegetables,   I put  half a cup of salt, and let it sit over night.   Then to drain.  (Nothing was said about rinsing the salt away first,  so I went to my vintage Better Homes and Garden cook book, and under a  hamburger relish recipe,  it stated "rinse and drain").  

So I did, before  adding the vinegar and sugar.   

I put up the preserves, and cleaned up the mess, and brought the relish to my mother.  She tasted it, and it was good, she said. And she had other recipes - pickled beets, for instance, but I had no beets in my garden that year.  Something ate them early on.  

I suggested we make a recipe journal instead,  with her favorite old recipes to pass on to her kids. And for her own remembering. With pictures and comments.  We'd  put it together later in the season when we would need a good winter project.   

Cucumber Relish