IN Carmel

 Another interesting day with a lot of variety.  Super good sleep with wake ups but back to sleep without an hour or more long break.  That's just fine.  I watched a little Joe with the thought I need to make better use of my time. No new news seemed to be the order of the day. So I gave thirty burps their first go around on the sewing machine.  The machine told me it needed a break so I was off to church for a morning of finishing up for the weekend.   It was Heidi, Laurel and I this morning.  Many loose ends got woven into the baptismal workshop on Saturday and Sunday.  I would say all is well and ready.  Darren ask that we be observers during both days so it seems I'll be a church lady on the weekend.   I left church at 12:30 and headed to H H for another skein of yarn. Knitting Saturday and Sunday afternoon will be a filler for me.   Then back home for lunch with the afternoon agenda being soup making  and of...

            Kimmy's sister Viki gave us this pot.  It's filled to the brim with plants started in the spring. At this house Wednesday is big blue truck day, lawn mowing day and today Doug is working on some signs for church baptism displays and I'm into burps and garden clearing.                  Soral.  Something to add to a salad. The red and green are so pretty in the evening sun..  So here goes the details.  We had two b blues to contribute lawn stuff to the landfill this morning.  I thought there would be more but other stuff happened and there were only two containers to contribute.  But the garden clearing this afternoon already has one BB stuffed for next week. These contributions have been made for years. New tools make it a bit easier to complete the job.  The artemisia is gone, the tomato stalks, and more verbena are gone.  The tomato plants h...

                                               I guess sun and peppers go together for this little friend. Today, Tuesday has been almost as good as Monday.  Woo. Two days in a row.  There was one exception.  Tuesday was fueled with less sleep.  Four hours isn't the same as seven or eight.  Dah!  But I'm fine.  Night isn't very far away and we'll see what it brings.  Probably more surprises.                                                         Straw flowers...a great pumpkin orange. I filled the morning with ripping fabric prepared for more burp construction sometime soon.  I discovered  that ripping is like one of my PT exercises...

I love Mondays.  Why?  I'm not sure but the whole week is ahead of me all clean and ready for what is to come.  Yes.  I love Mondays.             From the kitchen window.  Mrs. Downy is visiting again having  a late dinner in the garden. And today was a fun day.  I left a few things behind.  No sewing, No ripping fabric. Just 10 minutes of filler knitting.  I was in the car going places.  My mind was doing some different thinking.  It was a fun day. I needed a change.                                                                                 Fresh flowers on the table.   The first trip out was south to 38th and Meridian street meaning church....

 A good day with the usual stuff happening.  That's good enough for me.  I was up a little early with breakfast and a little TV but not much.  Spectrum was at it again.  Come on TV.                  Feverfew in it's second bloom.  I think it's a medicinal herb. Don't know for what.     I decided to work on the last 30 burps.  So that's what I did with the hope of getting them finished and on their way to Ginny at church.  Well, that didn't happen.  I ran out of time with only the last sewing to do on all 30.  They made it to the finish line in the afternoon. This is the third 100 in three weeks.  I think that's a new record.  I'm taking a break for a few days.  The nurses should have enough to keep them burp busy for a while.  I delivered the floor blankets so there will be something new for new born babies.         ...

                                   Captured today from the Dahlia bed.  More treasures beyond measure.  I give today a 10.  It's the best score when numbers go from 1 to 10. 10 being the best!  There was a lot of do and a whole lot of energy to go with the do.  What could be better?  Nothing!!                                 An evil looking grass hopper.  I remember playing with them when a child. The day started with breakfast, of course!  Then I spent the morning sitting at the sewing machine on the same chair at my machine that my great mentor Doris sat on at her sewing machine.  She is never far away in my mind while sewing.  In fact if the bobbin runs out at exactly the right time, I say that's a Doris Douglas.  It happens once in ...