IN Carmel

                                                                 The star of the garden right now. From where I sit, today was a bit different in a positive way.  And here's why.  Today I felt like I did a few months ago with a lot of get up and go energy.  Yes, I've stayed busy as you well know but this time mentally and physically I was ready to go.  And go I did.                                                          Fresh Dahlias at the kitchen sink. Just like Kathy does! This time of the year is what I call time to clean up the garden.  The Black Eyed Susan's are starting to lean over.  ...

                                                         More seed Dahlias.  Pretty in their simplicity. Yikes!  I had enough to do today.  Maybe enough for two days.  So here goes the day.  Up not so early but early enough.  Since there was some important stuff to do at I U North I could not eat breakfast after 6:30.  So happy to say there was 15 minutes to eat before breakfast needed to be over.   So it was yogurt with a little more yogurt.  And the of course knitting.  I finished another one.  One with a new kind of yarn which created a soft scarf.  Maybe one I'll keep.  Who knows until I decide.  I was off to guess where.  I U North for the six month Pet Scan and it happened.  It's a whole body scan.  Well almost to see what's ...

 The day started very early once again for no good reason.  It just did that all by itself.  I was up entertaining myself with knitting. The thought occurred to me that learning to knit during days set aside for studying before finals at college during my sophomore year is now the only skill I'm using these day.  My roommate taught me and I loved it.  So I knitted for a while stopping every now and then to do nerve stretching among other exercises.   My big important event during the morning was a stop at I U North this morning...the third visit for the week with one more to go.  It was time for my monthly two cancer shots which seem to come every 2 1/2 weeks.  It just seems that way.  I love visiting my helper friends at the hospital.  A month whizzes by faster than I can believe.   This afternoon Doug made his monthly visit for his iron shot with the same ladies at I U North.  He also has some doctor visits as ...

                                                         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...