Meet Haarrrvey

Haarrrv

Last week in class we made puppets!  I kinda like mine:)  We were split up into groups and had to make a puppet show with what we all had created.  Everyone in our group except one made something different than just a regular "person puppet".  So we ended up writing a play where we were all residents in a nursing home attending a costume party.  We also had a princess (who was suffering from severe alzheimer's and thought she was at a Christmas party the whole time), a doctor (who also suffered from dementia and thought he still was the doctor) and a crochety old man dressed as a worm because he liked to fish when he was younger.  Then there was Lula, the activity aide for the evening.  She was extrememly chipper.  Here's Harv's story:

He lost his leg in the war and just a couple months ago his wife (Evelyn) passed away.  She took really good care of him but once she was gone his kids thought he should move into the nursing home because they all lived a couple hours away.  He didn't hate the home but he was still adjusting.  He misses his own home but one perk of the "Old Folks Nursing Home" is the cute nurses!

Good ole Harv.  Just an even-keel guy with the slightest bit of depression, but that's to be expected in his situation.  My favorite part about Haarrrvey's attire is his doo-rag, eyepatch and jingle bell earring:)

I'll spare you all the details of the therapeutic value of puppetry.