Renovations/Moving

In 1972, while Judy was working at the hospital, I became 65 years old and eligible for Social Security, and so in January of 1973, I reduced my working hours for Joan in order to be more help at home. Even so, I was able to continue renovating and building in Joan's house and barn. With the help of others, I renovated much of the big house including the three bathrooms. After that, we built two new apartments in the barn and completely renovated the existing one.
During these years, Claire had been looking by mail and telephone for some place where we might move with Judy. Even since the accident we had been worried about Judy's future when we were no longer able to help her. This went on for several years but all the retirement places seemed to be either too small, too expensive, or too high class for us and usually all three. Also none of them would even consider taking Judy because she was too young and they had rules that everyone had to be able to walk in.