I invited Ulncle Bo to ride with me to the mountains this week. I picked him up Wednesday morning in Burlington about 9:00. We stopped in Wilkesboro for lunch and made it to our place about 12:30. After the trailer and Blazer were unloaded, we looked at the garden and around the house to see what we had done since Bo and Calvin were there in October a couple of years ago. Then we settled in to enjoy the cool air and nice breeze. We were sitting on the deck about 4:30 when L called. It was 75 degrees at that point on the deck with a good breeze. L reported that in Raleigh it was 98 to 102 degrees. What a nice difference! Wednesday night we ate good seafood at Mountainaire. Thursday morning we ate Ashe county cheese toast and at lunch, we ate family style at Shatley Springs. It was a nice relaxing couple of days for both of us.
Bo is using his cane as he walks and still recovers from falling and breaking his leg in November. He’s slowly regaining strength and stamina to get back to two of the things he loves to do, ball room dancing and playing golf.
One of his life-long activities is crocheting. After he broke his leg, Bo hasn’t been able to dance or play golf, but he has continued to crochet. He recently was interviewed about his crocheting for a news feature on High Point TV called “Roy’s Folks”. He says it was 1 minute and 51 seconds long. He also said the TV interview did not show 2 of his prized crocheted pieces: “The Last Supper” and “The Lord’s Prayer”. He now has them framed and I took these pictures.
Bo’s crocheting is a special gift and his crocheted artwork has been generously given to many special people and donated for fundraising projects to many agencies, such as Hospice, who have provided help to many more people. Occasionally, he has taken orders and sold some pieces, but primarily it has brought much pleasure to him and served as a way for him to give to others.
We had a good visit.