Edward is improving

Edward is improving and getting prepared to go into geriatric rehab. He could come home possibly while he waits for his spot in geriatric rehab. I am nervous although I have everything ready now on the main floor except I do not know what else to get to aid him like a wheelchair and other possible items. When I visit with him I might be able to find that out. The resident said that he wants to come home as well but he also wants to have the geriatric rehab. 

The flowers are blooming in the yard and he is missing that except in pictures. He does love his garden. The primrose is very green now and blooms can not be far behind. We have a goodly number of those plants all in a cluster which are quite beautiful when they bloom in their five different colours. To have the snow mostly gone on the 1st of April is quite wonderful. Although we could get more snow as we well know. 

Ed is just two weeks away from his 78th birthday now. Usually we go to a nice restaurant on his birthday but his illness prevents that kind of event for him now. We will try to make up some of his special meals sans salt that he really enjoys. We are down to basic ingredients with all of his meals. While he has been in hospital we have been using up all the canned goods that he cannot have plus any of the packaged items. 

His office is partially moved now - one entire wall is empty and now the other wall which is absolutely covered with bookcases plus boxes all in front mostly to a depth of 2 or 3. Then the closet to tackle and it is filled up to the 5th box line solidly across and it is a large closet so quite a big task still ahead. The bookcases themselves are massive but we managed to move one now into the other room and just two more massive ones to move and then two slightly shorter bookcases and a huge storage trunk filled to the brim with his mother's papers and memorabilia. He is the only one of her two children still living and he also acquired a lot of her brother's family material as he died earlier than she did without children. One of his cousins though is quite interested in the family and he is about twenty years younger. It is possible that he will take on all of that material and there are also boxes and boxes of Link ancestry (his mother's surname). The Link family were United Empire Loyalist coming up to Sorel Quebec through the snow from the Mohawk Valley. Their trek has been well documented and originally the family was from Hopfau, Baden-Wurtenburg with his furtherest back ancestor being Martin Linck married to Maria Vozeler and he is descended from their son Michael born 23 Oct 1698. Michael married Catharine Schraeglin 24 Nov 1721 at Hopfau and she was the daughter of Johannes Schraeglin and Eva Bort. We visited Baden-Baden when we were in Europe in 2014 on a tour. 

It is wonderful that we did all that traveling from 2008 to 2016 in Europe. One wonders when life will be back to normal once again and people will freely travel about. Altogether we did five tours together and I went to Rome, Italy and London, England with my eldest daughter in 2001.