Archive: November 2001

The Ramp has been built!

This weekend my husband and a bunch of guys from work poured a concrete wheelchair ramp along the front walk and up to the front door, and the jury-rigged plywood Ramp of Death at the back door is no more! I’m doing the little happy dance, here!

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Swim meet

Reasons to be happy you’re using a wheelchair at a three day swim meet:
* You won’t slip on a wet pool deck
* You’ll always have a place to sit
* You don’t have to climb up in the bleachers
Reasons not to be happy you’re using a wheelchair at a three day swim meet:
* You get really [...]

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The mother of all parking spaces

Dang! I got a phone call last week from the landlord mentioned below, thanking me for sending the material and saying that he had fixed the parking. Then on Monday my co-worker came in wondering if I had been to the restaurant yet – it now has the mother of all handicapped parking spaces! So [...]

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