IN Carmel

                      Annual ageratum.  The kind I like.  There is a larger one that seeds itself everywhere.                                                                             've been trying to get ride of it for 50 years. Yes...it was another Ramona day.  That means it's a day with surprises and the unexpected.  So I was on my way to Noblesville or perhaps nearer to Cicero, to retrieve her or snag her or should we say have her join me in another car ride starting at 10:30. And ride we did.  All the way to the 1500 block of Ritter at Community East Hospital 60 minutes away.  I've  never been to that side of town and I found that area to be sort of inte...

\\It was a 3:30 wake up.  I must have had something on my mind.  So it was up around 4 with a good snooze in the chair as the day began.                          This little girl is way out ahead of very one else.  I guess she wants all the glory.                                                                        She just keeps on giving and there are more to come.   I call this a lost day that turned out to be a rather good day.  The 9:30 to 11:00 Endo went well.  All the pre and post stuff took much longer than the 15 minute Endo.  The doctor took very good pictures although they didn't make much sense to me.  She gave me good news.  And I'm an ea...

 Another virtual trip North. One can never have too many of those.                                                                               Too BIG to fit in the picture.  'm going to start this entry this morning.  It's that darn brain fog that makes me forget stuff.  Well, fog gets the blame.  Who knows for sure.  There was breakfast and then a Tylenol for what seemed a stir up of inside the body stuff.  Am I imagining  Maybe.  I decided to fertilize the Dahlias and then thought better would be a good watering and then fertilizing.  So the watering happened and the fert. will happen this evening.  I'm trying to stay clean meaning unmuddied this morning.         ...

                                                                           A nice little patch of marigolds. Today marks another trip around the sun.  Another day older for sure.  It's been a good day. I did a little work in the Herb Garden cleaning out a few things that needed attention.  It's sort of like brushing ones teeth.  A little after 10 Dot and Jill arrived to see the garden and they got a big tour.  It was fun to share a little of what makes me tick.  For the next few days or so the garden is in a place where it can take care of itself.  And I'm sure to let that happen filling the days with other necessaries.   Tomorrow I'm meeting Ramona at her oncologists office. Her friend Kim is in charge of that appointmen...

Zinnias on the way! Church day and we did church.  In fact we both did choir.  It was harder than I thought it would be.  There is so much to remember like time signature, line ones notes are on, and more.  The notes were really tiny, so it seemed.   Remembering I'm an alto and not a pew singing soprano was just another thing.  Surprise, Surprise, Surprise.  Straw flowers just beginning to show off. There was lunch and then an afternoon of taking it easy with one exception.  My church friend Dot asked if the garden was open tomorrow and I said sure.  She's almost a neighbor living a mile south of us.  So she's visiting around 10 tomorrow.  So the snippers came out getting rid of Day Lily stems that the deer created.  They are so creative and if that is to continue, they will need to find another yard full of Day Lilys.  All of mine have proven to be pretty tasty.  So there was an hour or so of work that just hope...

First.  We were fortunate to be at the Meijer's Gardens when a Chihuly special showing of beautiful glass was exhibited.  There are some perminate displays but the special exhibit will be there until November.  Today you will see some of what we saw.  I woke up this morning with my mind set on resting.  Woo.  Yesterday was a full day and doing a lot of nothing this morning was the message buzzing in my ear.                  My descriptive words.  Big cubes of glacier ice creating their own piled together sculpture. I did make a garden run but nothing happened.  It was just a run...no slow walk come to think of it.  It was a bit cloudy and later on there was lightening and thunder.  After a very long pause of at least 15 minutes the rain came.  It felt a bit like camping weather.  And after another long pause there was even more rain.  So I'm happy to say that eliminate...