August was a fun and busy month at Zack’s Place and despite all the rain we had, we still managed to spend a great deal of time outside!

On Mondays, we continued with Book Club with Bobbi Perez, offered through the Special Needs Support Center. We have really enjoyed being a part of this and plan to continue joining them on Monday mornings in September. We enjoyed are art classes with Finnie, our golf outings to the Woodstock country club mastering our swing and putt. We had a wonderful visit to the Sunflower house at Billings Farm and of course some fabulous and competitive Bingo games with Kitty.

On Tuesdays, we continued with our wonderful garden program with Linda who has taught us so much about the ins and outs of gardening. The garden is a magical place to be and we have thoroughly enjoyed having a garden plot there this year. We had games with Carl, cooking with Sarah and cooking with our new friend Don. We made music with Kathleen and Mark and at 3pm every afternoon, we did some wonderful yoga and stretching with either Jamie or Lalita.

Every Wednesday, we made our way to Silver Lake to kayak and canoe with Vermont Adaptive, one of our favorite summer activities. We enjoyed swimming, paddling, picnicking and relaxing in the sun. Every Wednesday afternoon, we made music together singing our hearts out with Kerry and Sandy and Bob Horan.

Thursdays in August became our field trip day, we went to see the dress rehearsal of “Fiddler on the Roof” performed by Barn Arts. We went to the Quechee pizza chef for Putt putt golf, pizza and a birthday celebration for Matt Allnut. We visited the Montshire museum and checked out the dinosaur exhibit and last but not least, we went to Maple Lanes Bowling Alley, which is always a fan favorite! Every afternoon art 3pm we had yoga with Amanda, practicing our poses, while stretching and moving and we all look forward to our lavender head massages while relaxing, during shavasana.

Fridays we head back to the garden to weed, water and work in our garden plot and this time of year we do a lot of harvesting of our vegetables as well. We had fitness games with Bari and Vince, storytelling with Jools, art with Caitlin and yoga dance with Liz Barker.