IN Carmel

 This morning started a little slow.  I was going to write pokey.  Two good descriptive words. I finished last night off with another good drink for the five Dahlias I missed yesterday. They are planted in other places then the majority of Dahlias who have earned their exclusive Dahlia bed.   This morning, sitting seemed to be what the body was telling me to do. So the knitting came out and I did quite a bit of needles clicking toward another scarf.   Some time ago I decided to change my e-mail address.  I was tired of the hundreds of items showing up which were plain old trash.  That change created a little mess which I worked toward fixing later in the morning.  One was getting the new e-mail address attached to the I U Portal. Seems the doctors need to talk to me. One sent me a letter because I had not opened the portal. Another to do was calling church to once again receive the church letter through the new e-mail.  Little by li...

 The garden walk was first on the list and it didn't take very long for the message to come that this morning would be a work morning.  The garden was needy for a lot of reasons.   I set up the sprinkler to help the Dahlias though this dry season.  No water, no flowers.  I wanted flowers so the water was delivered in a quantity that will give me flowers.  The garden cart followed me out of the garage to the north side of the back garden where the Iris live. It was time for their summer hair cut.  Stella came along side giving me a seat to work from.  She is always a huge help with Iris trimming.  Sitting when cutting makes the job doable. It takes so long to shape two large garden plots of Iris up for the rest of the late summer days.  Along with trimming comes the discovery of everything that is exposed to view when their trim happens.  So the whole morning's work delivered three garden carts filled to overflowing contributed ...

 Today was a very pokey day.  I wasn't much in a hurry and tonight's post will back that up.  Some days are like that even in Carmel.   This morning we picked up Noah for church.  It was Andrews day to move back into the dorm at Goshen so their car was packed to the max.  Noah had a bell rehersal after church so it was important that he made that practice.  He had another ride home allowing us to leave church at a more decent time   Church was something different this morning when it came to the music.  We had an excellent Dixie Land Jazz Band that supported the worship in so many ways.  I thought we were right in the heart  of New Orleans.  We heard Jesus Calls Us/ Shall We Gather at the River/Down by the Riverside/ Just a Closer Walk/ Love Lifted Me.  And for the Postlude...When the Saints Go Marching in.  The place was rockin! So the rest of the day was a plain ordinary Sunday.  Nothing out of the or...

 There was a slow start to Saturday.  There was breakfast, TV, knitting for a while after doing my homework. I thought it was time for a walk.  It was a short walk around the block but it took me for ever.  Not because I was a slow walker but because I stopped and talked for about an hour with a neighbor.  She was painting her house.  I finally got to our driveway and three ladies were out walking.  One from the neighborhood with two of her friends.  There were some questions and I had some answers.  I asked if they wanted to do a garden walk and they said yes.  So there went about another 30 minutes of visiting.  What fun.  So friendships were renewed and some new ones made.  It was a good morning.  Lunch happened.  The afternoon was filled again with knitting with another scarf finished and watching the Colts play the Lions along with a little WNBA.  Not a lost afternoon in my world.   For what e...

The last day of the work week.  Well, that's for some but not for all.  But it's Friday. The first order of the day was the paper work.  That means homework in this case.  I got-er-done.  There was a little TV and then I decided to do a walk around the block.  It went well yesterday and I thought to repeat it again.   Neighbor Vicky and her dog caught up with me and we completed the walk stopping to talk to another gardener neighbor as we passed by.  She was enlarging her front garden.  I spent the morning doing a little more knitting.  Not to much but enough for the morning. A bit more happened in the afternoon. There was lunch and then a Kroger stop for 4 gal of distilled water.  Enough for a while to keep my C Pap machine happy.  I stopped at the Y to see what more walking would do there for a body that might benefit with a bit more exercise. It's been a while since I've done the Y.  That also was pretty positive e...

 One more Thursday under my belt.  That is if I'm waring a belt.  I'm not.  But there still was another Thursday for a lot of things happening.   Yesterday Dr. Jalli and I negotiated pills.  She suggested one Hydrocone and I suggested two.  I won.  But this morning I wanted to see if one would really work.  Well, it didn't.  So for this morning I added the second pill.  I'll try again tomorrow.  I took it easy getting the paper in and checking on the Dahlias.  There are a whole lot of buds but the blooms will be here soon.  The one more cat became a chrysalis so the number is four with the fifth on in a j shape.   Of course the body wanted to sleep so I got my favorite camping chair out which always was a great sleeping chair and true to form...I fell asleep which happened in a nice warm sunshine.  That can be dangerous but true to form I wasn't burned in the experience.   We made a great...