Swinging in the sunshine, dirt-digging and petunia-planting fill the weekend of Skyler Winters, 4, while he visits Grandma Chery at her yellow house.

“My grandson loves to garden with me,” Cheryl Obright said. “It’s kind of like magic for kids because they put a little seed or a little plant in the ground, and then a few weeks later they see it coming up and they say ‘Wow! That’s magic!’ and so that makes them feel good.”

Even after working a seven-hour shift, and exchanging good-bye waves with

co-workers, Toynnia Dye’s job isn’t over yet. She drives away from LifeSkills with 38-year-old John Fleenor of Bowling Green. Dye oversees the work of mentally disabled adults, like Fleenor, supervising their job performance.