It was a triple play today, in three separate innings. We started out with flowers from Boots at Black Mountain Floral Center and
Earth Fare. Yesterday Boots hijacked a truck full of flowers for us at the end of their run. It was great! Enough flowers for us to go to Magnolia Health Care Center first thing in the morning. There were poinsettias everywhere at Magnolia so we made some large bouquets for their dining room tables, activity room and nursing stations. You can see Nanette helping us out in the photo above. We finally got to meet her son Mike and his wife as they came to take her out for the afternoon. Then we were off to Fresh Market to see Louise and pick up some more flowers from her. So who do we see in Fresh Market? Check out the photo of Nanette, Mike and Louise. Mike used to be the manager at Fresh Market so Mike and Louise already knew each other. What a small world! But we had to keep moving….we had flowers to deliver now to The Laurels of Green Tree Ridge.
Fortunately Marjorie was there to help us fill the 88 cups full of flowers and hand them out to the residents. Marilyn, in the photo to the right, was one of the happy recipients. She loves the baby’s breath so she chose an arrangement that had a lot of them. Then off we went again - we don’t have ‘Flowers on the Move’ as our tag line for nothing. We picked up 8 buckets of gorgeous flowers from the Biltmore House - look at those colors! Nothing quite like it.
But what to do with them? Well, we moved along to The McCune Center. And although most of our help was out Christmas shopping, both Louise and Weezie were there to lend a hand. We managed to spill several cups of water on the floor as we delivered out beautiful floral arrangements to the residents, but everyone was happy to get them and happy to help us mop up the place. Three facilities in one day - a new record for us! Something only to repeated with more volunteers…..
