Saturday

 Another great night of sleep.  Gratitude abounds.  This morning Ms. Daisy was transported to church arriving around 8:45 after taking another chipmunk to the park.  They just keep coming and we just keep moving them.  This afternoon the cutest little squirrel was on the patio about the size of a chipmunk.  Their tails are so big compared to their body.  There were times today when 4 or 5 noisy Carolina Wrens were flooding the patio at the same time.  What a deal.  They are noisy little birds. 

Love in the Mist, Nigella.  The first seed pod that guarantees that there will be many more plants next year.  So pretty, making the flowerbeds come alive. Easy to grow by just letting them do their own thing.

So the morning was full of Bread and Bowl work preparing food for those who would eat with us as well as hot meals to take home to eat.  The carry out meals were gone in thirty minutes and the food for eating in the community room lasted the entire hour.  We filled at least 60 plates along with 51 carry out meals.  Woo...I would say a busy morning.  And the energy lasted for the entire time.  Thanks be to God.  

                            I found a first pepper now green but turning to orange when mature. 

Doug arrived at church at 12:15 and we were on our way home.  

I worked in the garden in the afternoon dead heading a beautiful ornamental sage plant we got at the church swap a few years ago.  It would like to think it can take over but I know better.  

                    I found more volunteer flower plants and of course I had to find a place for them. 

My library books are giving me more ideas.  A jug from my dad was moved into the garden.  Great cucumber plants are in the background along with some milkweed plants.  A little zinnia will soon not be so little. 

        A long way to go even though doubling in size since the last picture.  All good things take time.  

A nap came in handy, and I visited with Kathy's F. mother for a while showing her the Monarch cat.  The hope is to find more in the garden, but it hasn't happened yet.  I'm checking for Swallowtails as well and the number so far is zero.  I'm guessing that bright flowers would help to attract so hope still abounds.  Doug did some trimming and I helped him fill another big blue. 

        This is rue, a nonedible herb that Swallowtails lay their eggs on.  I think the leaves are so unusual.

Another day filled with making a difference providing food for those in need, visiting with a 90 some year old, cultivating the earth, looking after a small, tiny creature that will morph into a beautiful Monarch and just living a life of caring.  It takes a world of folks that need to do the same.