Our pollinator gardens in action! Buzz away bee – not really!! We love bees, we love pollinators, & we love the ESSWCD’s Billie Fitzgerald Memorial Grants program for their support! This trumpet creeper is a native plant that is great for pollinators and we encourage the planting of Eastern Shore Native Plants!We love this shot of our sign and some of our beautiful day lilies!Zel washing dishes – Theresa says, “Where’s his apron?”. She also says he should get an award for all the helping he does at No Limits!DJ helped YouthWorks wash our vans. He has a sponge in his hand, ready to work!Our berries look GOOD. These grow wild at the edge of our yard. Our cultivated berries are coming along too!Another product of the Eastern Shore Soil & Water Conservation District’s Billie Fitzgerald Memorial Grants program, our butterfly bush is looking great! This bush not only survived the move from Onancock, it seems to love it here in Tasley!David, Theresa and Amy getting ready to roll ’em out, making dog biscuits for our local SPCA and Animal Control shelters…the YouthWorks kids were jealous of their skills!!Keep an eye on this site. This is the BEFORE picture. We are locking down plans for accessible outdoor pathways and shade in our pollinator garden and it will be beautiful!Cucumbers growing!Cucumbers harvested! The first of the season!Our little girls are growing up! Stay tuned for more info on Cute Chicken Wednesday, we released the 9 young hens from their coop and let our ladies mingle for the first time. The short video below captures the release. They are very happy to free range in the yard!
This week’s Youthworks team came to us all the way from Wisconsin! As always we started them off with an Introduction to No Limits and a Brain Injury Prevention for Teens presentation.Next up was a Gross Motor Skills activity – a tossing game that works on movement and balance skills.They got a sneak peek at the slideshow Matt & Emma have been working on for the Elton trower Memorial on 7/22.Youthworks helped us out by weeding our planter and washing our sign. Thank you so much!!!They also helped us to dehydrate our catnip harvest.They helped us cut out patterns for catnip toys for the kitties!Thank you so much for coming to the Eastern Shore to help out!!
Youthworks came from Wisconsin and Massachusetts this week. Here they are learning about brain injury prevention from us.We had lots of fun showing them one of our gross motor activities.These were some hard working workers! We really do appreciate it.Getting ready to build a shed before it rains!They were all so dedicated and doing it from the heart.DJ giving Youthworks a big thumbs up!Don’t close yourselves in, we’re leaving for the weekend!!What an amazing bunch. Thanks for coming!!
It was time to say goodbye to our C.O.T.A. (Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant) Intern, Cheryl Comstock-Williams. Cheryl. it’s time to go! God bless!But first she helped set up our new cash register for us – thanks Cheryl!! Zel’s got it now!Cheryl’s father-in-law, Lynn Williams, and his friends Ray Tate and Tommy Wescott came and played genuine bluegrass music for us – it was awesome!! Come back soon please!Mr. Parks came to see us, here he is with Matt. Still lookin’ good, keep up the good work, come back again ya hear!Our newest member D.J. with Amy and some of this week’s wonderful Youthworks volunteers – work on girls with your bad selves! Woo-woo!!The Youthworks Crew leader and Matt in their matching shades – who’s who??
