Friday Blogging

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Bake on my people, bake on! Making the animals happy by making treats for the pups/cats at our local shelters!
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Gettin’ our hands dirty making more treats!
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Working together making Adrian’s cake!  Yo, Adrian, it’s all for you!
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Happy, happy birthday birthday boy…and many, many more!
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News up!  Amy and Zel are getting newsletters ready for delivery.  Jake says “I was in the news!”  Haha!
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This week we volunteered at the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore’s gardens!  Emma and Zel were so surprised at how much the garden has grown this week!  Weed on folks, weed on!
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The Gardening Gang clearing wire grass from the maters in the hoop house!  This is before…
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…and this is after!  Great job!
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Van inspection time.  Brandon and David are making sure it’s staying safe!
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Job well done to our four, smiling men of the No Limits Health & Safety Team.  Not pictured: our fabulous Health & Safety Coordinator, Adrian!  Thanks for keeping us safe guys 🙂

Friday Blogging

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There goes Zel, gettin’ ready to pop corn! Pop on Zel!  We had low-fat popcorn to eat while we reviewed a movie on brain injury!
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Coggin’ away! Kyle teaching a cognitive lesson – hey hey!
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Memory matching. DJ got a 90% on his own! Woot woot, good job DJ!
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Do you like our sun shade we built for our hens?!  Zel and Daniel are caring for the chickens!
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Amy and Sherry working on a Tangram. A tangrams is “a Chinese geometric puzzle consisting of a square cut into seven pieces that can be arranged to make various other shapes.”  They are like  solving jigsaw puzzles except harder!  Whew!

Friday Blogging

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Eva hard at work making dog biscuits for the local doggies in our communities’ shelters!
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Say what?! Sherry and Karen are workin’ so hard!
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Coni Chandler from Intrepid came to give us a lesson on staying safe in the heat and preventing dehydration! Always drink 8 glasses of water per day.
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Catnip haircut time! Y’all are doin’ a good job too.
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Work on Brandon, work on! Keep them weeds away!
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Chef David mixing up Sherry’s birthday cake. It was so yummy!
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Our in-chair exercise group at work with Betsy! Thank you so much to the United Way of Virginia’s Eastern Shore for helping us to fund our exercise program.
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Happy birthday Sherry! And many, many more!
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Brandon wanted to teach everyone how to protect your head/neck during our tornado drill this month. Brandon is our new Health & Safety teacher – good job!

YouthWorks Week 7

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YouthWorks Week 7 receiving their brain injury prevention presentation!
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Gross motor time.
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Scorin’ all the points! Good job.

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Cornhole on people, cornhole on!
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Jake lookin’ good! Nice smile!
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Eva and the YouthWorks peeps! 🙂
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YouthWorks helped us to complete our comfort dolls project!
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Eva was quality control! This is a project that we help with on behalf of The Kiwanis Club of Accomack. The Kiwanis distributes the dolls to be used with children and the elderly in our community.
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Work on my people, work on! You’re doin’ a great job!
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Taping the floor for painting.
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Awesome job!
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Paint on! Look at that focus!
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A man hard at work.

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The painting crew lookin’ hyped (excited) about a job well done!
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Awesome-fab! Y’all did a GREAT job!
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When YouthWorks got done with painting and the comfort dolls project they helped us to complete more cat toys!

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These toys will be donated to local shelter kitties and will be available through a No Limits Fundraiser very soon!
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We received this beautiful card from the regional YouthWorks representatives. What an amazing organization! We cannot wait to meet more amazing YouthWorks volunteers next summer. Thank you ALL so very much for everything you have helped us to accomplish!

Friday Blogging

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The “Terrible Two” know just what to do! (Just kidding about being terrible; you guys rock!)
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Safety first mowing by the road! Zel likes mowing so much he’s hittin’ his high notes 🙂 .
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Sand on y’all!
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Everybody’s getting the floor ready for YouthWorks to come and paint for us!
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Brandon says “I got it! Time to get to work.”
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Thumbs up for our weekly activity fund counting!
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Oooh, food here we come! This week we took a trip to Happy Buffet.
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It was so good! Amy says “It was the BOMB!”
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Laurice Hohlt brought us 2 Monarch butterfly chrysalises to hatch and release. They hatched and we released them into our pollinator garden! Thanks for this awesome opportunity Laurice – and thank you to the Eastern Shore Soil and Water Conservation District for awarding us grant funds to establish this garden!
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Calvin accepting delivery of his new bike to help him to get around!
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This bike was purchase through the VA DARS BIDS funding!  Thanks DARS!  Calvin, we can’t wait to see your new ride up and running!!!