IN Carmel

                                                       All the good zinnias, plus a few other things.    I woke up after a great night of sleep.  I added an extra spread to the bed and was pleasantly warm.  That was until I got out of bed.  Brrrr.  The house was cold.  I let Doug determine when the furnace comes on and when he got up he went directly to the thermostat.  We had heat. I spent some of the morning turning the bed from summer to winter with the wool blanket added as well as the flower garden quilt.  I need flowers year around. Doug's long term B 12 issues and now my lazy Thyroid  might say electric blanket if the wool blanket is not enough.  I hope not.    I moved to another fall job digging through all three drawers where my stash of summer an...

 It's been a cloudy, gloomy, chilly day.  A harbinger of winter I would say.  I'm sure there will be more to come sprinkled in between the exact opposite sort of day.  So one could say...get use to it.  There will be more like any other fall or winter day we've lived through other years.   I really had a great night of sleep waking up around 8.  There was breakfast and knitting.  I knew I had to make another trip to I U North so I checked my iPhone for the time.  Gee Wizz.  It was an 8:30 appointment and the clock said 8:26 already.  So you can imagine I was on my way immediately not even turning off the TV.  All the round abouts worked their magic.  The car filled Keystone drivers were even helpful.  And I arrived at 8:44.  Woo. That was amazing to say the least.  I did 40 in a 35 zone just like everyone else.                        ...

 Another Thursday.  They just keep coming and that's fine with me.  At the beginning of the week it became apparent to me that there was something to do elsewhere every day of this week.  Yes, some weeks are like that even in Australia as Alexander would say.  Today was to be a morning with Noah at Bread and Bowl at North.  Well, last night I discovered it will be next Thursday.  Woo.  was I happy about that?  You bet.  Today was mine all day doing what I wanted to do all of it at home.  Well, almost.  I finished the last 10 burps so the next 100 burps are ready for the trip to Ginny.  I spent some time putting thread and more where they really belonged in the sewing room. Some fabric was trimmed and deposited in the recycle container.  So a few things like that just make where I work and what I'm looking at a little more pleasing and organized.  I would add, ready to mess up again at some point.  That took ...

 The morning went as usual.  Turning, ironing and then sewing burps.  I finished 10 burps thinking the other 20g would happen in the afternoon.  That was a joke.  Way to busy to get back to the machine.  The morning really started with a note to Darren about the weekend events.  Just what I thought including pros and cons.  I knew that was coming so I got her' done asap..   We made a necessary trip to Aldi's with a record paid at the cash register.  Yikes, what would it have cost at Krogers.  It's sort of scary.  After all was stashed away at home I made another cookie sheet of croutons and some delicious broccoli soup that should take care of us for a few days of food. Planning ahead is the trick.  At three there was another PT session.  Every day my pinched nerve and affected muscles are a bit better.  The goal is to just keep on doing what I've been doing plus getting my head to turn to the left.  Th...

 For what ever reason you might choose, I manages to fill up the day with some of this and that.  The day started a bit later than usual.  I can't remember when I slept till 8 am.  Woo.  that's some sort of a record for me. I guess I needed that still recuperating from the weekend.   I was off to church to do the final clean up from that weekend!  We usually work in the morning but I forgot I told Heidi we could do afternoon for today at her request.  So what needed to be done got done with the sanctuary and chapel ready for next Sunday by me.  That's what an empty head causes.  A morning by myself which wasn't really bad, come to think of it.  Darren stopped by with a few questions  taking care of all the blue water for me.  That's a yeoman's job.                 Beautiful orange ceramic flowers gifted to me last night.  They are perfect in all ways. I was home b...

  There was a lot of Dahlia snipping this morning with three vases loaded with flowers.  It makes my day. After a busy weekend I welcomed a not  so busy Monday but it turned out to be sort of busy anyway.  It was time for my monthly blood work to determine if my body was ready for another month of cancer medication.  If the numbers were not so good, I would need to wait another week for body recuperation before back on meds.  If I passed the test, I could get started on the meds for the next three weeks.  So off to I U North I went discovering there was no order from the doctor.  Now this trip was around 7:30 when the whole world was going to work in Indianapolis.  Woo.  Traffic was scary.  But I made it to the hospital only to return home...call the doctor to get an order and then right back to the hospital again through traffic and construction detours.  It took patience to do what I needed to do and eventually around 10:00 I...