IN Carmel

                                                         The best of all friends but still a funny puppy, Arnie. If anyone has a handle on when the temperature will moderate, let me know.  I don't need a guess.  I want the truth as Edith Ann would say.                                                     More Dahlias from Dahlia Hill, Midland Michigan. I had a rather acceptable sleep and was awake at 6.  That's acceptable.  So it was a slow get up with breakfast, the paper and then things did a change.   It's September and time to think about cleaning up the garden.  This morning I started.  It's Big Blue Truck day and there...

 If you read the blog before 9 o'clock last night, you might have missed some beautiful Dahlias.  Check back if that is the case.  When something needs to be done...why does it always keep me awake in the middle of the night when done is impossible to do.  I slept well in Michigan where it was really impossible to do done. I had left it in Indiana. That was wonderful. Dilemmas should be put on the shelf impossible to reach.  Anyway first thing this morning was to get the blood test that was such a hassle yesterday just impossible to do. . And that happened at 7:30 with super results of the test coming my way on the Portal by 9 am.  All is pretty good and the medicine can be started again for three weeks.  Yeah.  Today is starting well.  Now let it continue.  I made sure the new blooms of the Dahlias were clipped and arranged for the house.  I texted pictures to my sister who has broken two spots in her pelvis a few days ago....

 Back home again in Indiana.  Carmel to be more exact.  We left the kids around 9:20 and I was the driver.  A new experience for both of us.  I did about 2/3s of the drive and Doug did the rest.  It's a good thing to split this job between the two of us.  Nothing much happened on the drive except what I call one big exception.  While driving I spotted two deer by the road side.  Now the Mi. Russell's have hit more than their share of deer with more than their share of car repairs.  Jacob score is three.  He has the biggest number.   I slowed way down having seen them pretty far ahead.  Then one darted across the road waiting till I was nearer from one corn field to another.  The other one turned back but then decided to follow the first one.  I anticipated that so all the bad stuff was adverted.  It helps to think like a deer...MAYBE! So back home around 3:30 but then directly it was off to I U North fo...

  Yes...Sunday in Michigan.  It's been full and fun.  Up early as usual with a lot of visiting until it was time to leave for church in Midland.  The ministers messages have not disappointed and today once again a great message was given to those worshipping at Midland Free Methodist Church.   Then off to do the usual and that's to two pizza shops for take out pizza.  And then onward to home.  That has been a tradition for a very, very long time.   I did another walk around the gardens again taking more pictures to carry home with me.  And that happened on an upgrade in iPhones.  I now have Eli's former phone with Eli getting a hand me down from Kimmy who got a new phone.   Then we were on to Dahlia Hill to see some knock out Dahlias.  That trip is a must do trip when we visit in the fall.  The Dahlias were beginning to open but not all.  Maybe half for today.  They are beautiful and you see some p...

Saturday with the young folks is different then Saturday with the old folks. That is not exactly correct. It's a whole lot different. So with a short memory of how it happened a few years ago...Here goes what today was like.                                     Waiting for the parade to start. My pockets are full of candy sevener's. I can say as I usually do that I sleep better in Michigan then at home.  The new reason...Nothing here is waiting for me to do.  Could that be true? Not sure but that's the current theory as of today.  We at some point were all up.  Adam is such a sound sleeper that his alarm went for an hour before he woke up.  Now everyone else was sleeping as well with one exception.  When he did wake up he was soon off to work for another long day.  He works many long days. We were off to T. Hortons for doughnuts and then to th...

  Another unusual day.  I was up early as usual and Doug was up and then went back to bed.  That's just the way it goes.  The next time he got up I made the bed.  Ha!  He was ready to stay up at that point. True to form Doug never changes.  59 years of living together has taught me a lot as it usually does for long marriages!  Steve has been around for a long time.  He is an outside cat but comes to the door morning and evening for food.  He loves to be petty and will be at your feet no matter where you go.  So we were in the car by 9:20 heading north.  Doug at the wheel and me with my knitting.  And another scarf was completed.  We arrived around 4 and had long garden walks circling more than once.  All is so pretty.                                                 ...