IN Carmel

 It was another rise and shine morning a little earlier than I had hoped for but as you all know it happens.  Today was the last day of three weeks taking my wonderful poison pills.  That meant it was time to order more and that happened much easier than I thought it would.  So, there will be a break of a week and then it starts again.  I'm getting in the grove and happy to do that.  Out, out dam spot! Who said that first?                                                             These little ladies are coming on strong. The biggie for the day was a trip to church to meet with Darren and Heidi to set some things in cement perhaps about the October 13th worship service.  So, after a quiet morning we made it to our 12 PM meeting.   The service has elements of carrying for the earth and Darren likes to plan ahead which is a very good habit.  The service will involve adults and children in different areas during the service.  Visuals will be included and so we worked out details that

                                     Day is dying in the west.  Heaven is touching earth with rest.  A day of rest and I did a whole lot of that.  It was a good night of sleep.  Then breakfast and then some chair sitting falling asleep again with an oops when I woke up.  It was time to head on to church.   Heidi and I did an early hello to a lot of folks and then it was 11 AM. We got cut off for church to start!!!!  It was Health and Healing Sunday Service which I just love.  The choir anthem words were just the best with  If You Search with All Your Heart.  by Courtney When you seek Me, you shall find Me if you search with all your heart.                                                      For I know the plans I have for you: plans of welfare, not of evil.                                                              For I know the plans I have for you: plans of hope and a future.                                                                     I will bring you out of bondage to th

                           Until next year, this is the last of the Black Eyed Susans.  Many thanks to you girls.  This entry will be short because if I don't count the storm, not much happened.  So, this is what I can say.  The night had a hole in it and I filled it from time to time during the day light hours. There was another reaction to the medicine this morning and that slowed me down a bit.  It was time for gentleness.   The yard, and ours is a big one, is littered with stuff like this.  Pick up is the theme with finding stuff from the trees living in the front yard now littering the back yard.  It was an over the house kind of night. There is a little bit of everything laying around.  There must have been some Hurricane winds passing through!   At some time during the night the wind must have been blowing more than usual and some branches came off the trees at the neighbor's house.  Doug had a chance to use his handy dandy little power tool.  I think Kathy is going to a

 So thankful that the south is nearing the end of the storm threat.  There is way too much water but with time that should righten itself.  The rain in lesser amounts has moved north and will be here for a while and the wind has become a little more challenging but certainly nothing near what Florida and Georgia received.  The monastery came through with all windows intact punctuated with finding new roof leaks and realizing that old leaks were holding. The storm center went farther west but I would say because it was so large they still had a good hit.   I'm wondering how many trees didn't stay upright.                                                                            A gift from a neighbor. We stopped again for another prescription this evening and a surprise gust of wind nearly put me on the ground.  I got smarter right away preparing for whatever would have come next hugging the side of the building. .   The morning was slow again.  I'm beginning to realize exa

 Have you ever had a day that had two parts that were as different as black and white, summer and winter big and little so opposite that it was almost breath taking?  Well, that was today for me and thank goodness I survived.  It took some tears of gratitude. So now I'll start with the morning.  I had a decent night's sleep with a breakfast that was OK.  Oatmeal same as usual but I just wasn't very hungry.  I ate half a bowl with bananas and nuts added and pitched the rest.  Then I did the last of cutting fabric which meant that there wasn't any more to cut.  Sad.  So, I watched some TV and just didn't feel quite right so sleeping was really easy meaning that sleeping in spirts was what I accomplished.  That went on for the rest of the morning.  Now, I am aware that mornings like this will come by from time to time.  It was slow going.  Lunch was jello and a power bar.  Not very exciting and I'm not sure that it was what I needed for fuel but that's what I h

 It's the middle of the week again.  G. day, M. day and anything else day. Another great night of sleep with a 7:30 wake up.  There is nothing wrong with that.                                                     I love golden rod added to other things in the fall.  I spent the morning after breakfast, newspaper, and TV and gathering zinnia seeds.  I love the little zinnias that line the paths through the garden.  They are almost impossible to find in the spring so last year I saved seeds and had enough plants to use.  It was time to do it all over again.  The trouble is that the seeds must be dark in color and mature in size and that's exactly what attracts the birds to pluck seeds from the zinna stems.  So, the trick is to plant enough for the birds and the gardener.  And this gardener did just that.  I'm leaving them to dry even more before they get slipped into paper envelopes.   Two different colors.  Yellow and orange flowers on the top picture and pink on the bottom. 

 It's been a slow day...a very slow day.   I did put together 20 burps but not all at one sitting.  I would say there were many starts and stops with burps today.  But there are now 100 more in the bag for Ginny and 10 more priming the pump anticipating the next 100. A few are waiting for the sewing machine. The total finished so far...drum roll...1210.                                    I love those BIG Goodwill bags.  Another 100 for Ginny's babies.  I spent some time this morning sleeping away a few hours.  Why?  I have no idea although I've heard and I'm believing that cancer makes one tired just because cancer is hanging around.   I think that's pretty close to being right.                                                                              Sage, Sage and Sage. The frustration continues with the financial aid lady Rosie at the Plainfield office concerning the drug Kisqali.  I e-mailed the info 3 times and Rosie said she didn't get it.  Then last Th

There was a great night of sleep.  I just couldn't keep my eyes open at 9:30 so it was sleep time till 6 this morning.  I would say a new record.  There was breakfast and thinking about what needed to happen today.   A Dennis vase with one lone zinnia and a little bit of Rue.  A favorite place for Swallowtails to lay their eggs.  It didn't happen this year.  I'll try again next year.  Rue is a perennial herb so it will be back next year.  I sewed 8 more burps adding to the two yesterday at some point so 10 told me that made it time to stop.  With 10 more to go there will be another 100 to send on their way.  Another feel good feeling although that also means more Goodwills for Doug for fabric hunting.  Poor guy.  I'll try to take it easy on him.  This picture was added to the blog to show Dennis, the bowl maker and Leslie, his wife that Dennis' bowls can do many things.  One thing is to mark each end of a burp cloth with a half circle to guide the sewing machine run

 It's been a good day.  Maybe even close to a great day.  No, it's been a super day. Being a church day it was time to get dressed up and on our way to church at 10.  And we had time to visit before the 11 o'clock service.  The flowers were beautiful.  The preaching was stellar.  The choir was at their best and the handbells with our two grandsons as members of that group, played.                                           Bob and Rita.  Bob being the honoree on this particular Sunday.                                                                                  Two more arrangements were on the other side of the altar.   We moved all the flower to the west entrance for folks to enjoy who had business at the church during the week.  Then we headed home with the parking lot still full of cars.  That was the plan.   Our UP-camping friends arrived around 2:00 and we killed many words talking about Fort Wilkins, Copper Harbor, Their home on Lake Madore, Father Basel, iPhones

 Saturday follows Friday and that was true today.  So, it was time to get busy with thinking what needed clipping this morning for the altar flowers at church tomorrow.  So I got started and found a whole bunch of stuff that I just needed to clip.   There were two kinds of grasses that were blooming with different blooms, artemisia, Hosta, coral bell flowers and then all the zinnias from yesterday.  Doug and I hit the road and unloaded everything at the west door at church.  30 minutes later we were finished.  I've done this so often and usually have an idea long before I start what I want to accomplish.  So, in honor of Bob Schilling's 91st birthday, the former director of music at the church the altar flowers with thanksgiving to God will remind us of one of God's faithful servants.  It's been a blessing to do that.  I call it play time for me.   By noon we were back home for lunch and the afternoon was slow and easy watching a little I U football among other things. 

 Friday comes after Thursday every week.  That's just the way it is.  So today was Friday because yesterday was Thursday.  Today was the day for cutting the good zinnias for the altar arrangements at church.  They were looking stressed since we have had little rain this month and being watered in the bucket after cutting, I was giving them a second chance at looking perky.  So about 15 ended bucket worthy.  And then I cut two stacks of left over stuff to added to the big blues.  I think they have reached their limit.  I know I reached my limit.  I must get Eric in the garden one of these days.  There is still a long time till frost but it's a relief to know the cleanup job has been completed.  I put some bags in the car for a Goodwill stop.  And then we were on our way to the Simon Cancer Center to deliver the missing papers needed for financial aid for the medication I'm taking.  I tried every way I could think of and Kat did the same to get that paper e-mailed.  So, I cou

 There was a hole in the night, but the second sleep lasted till after 7 so there is celebration.  I ate breakfast and headed out to the garden to deadhead the Mexican Sunflowers.  They will bloom until frost showing off their bright orange color.  That's the best garden color so I keep it going. I decided to keep on with clipping and snipping and cleared about half of the garden.  Enough for not quite one big blue.  And being so much like my mother, I should have stopped long before I did, but the job wasn't finished.  Dah!  Don't be like your mother!   So I was dragging for the rest of the day. Some time ago I was told to get a blood pressure cuff.  It may give a bit of a different reading then the dr. office kind but the reading I got was really low.  Maybe the drag came from low BP.  What do I know.  I'm not a doctor but I can teach little children!   Denise S called and wanted to know if it was a visiting day, and I said yes although I wondered why I said that.  I

 Living has been a bit rough since last evening.  The dreaded side effects have arrived.  I'm not surprised with the results.  I was warned.  Bedtime started at 3 this morning and ended at 7.  I'm whipped.  So, today will be slow because that's all I have. What didn't help was the fact that it was the day for shots, and I thought the time for that was 1:30 this afternoon.  When checking I discovered that it was 9:30 and the clock told me that it was already 9:20. I was ready, but Doug wasn't.  It's a 15-minute drive to the hospital. We arrived at 9:40 and discovered that there was a 30-minute window provided for patient's arrival time.  Thank you, Jesus.  Yikes.   And things in the shot department were not going as planned.  Yes...a rough morning.  The medicine is cold and it's thick so it needs to be warmed taking more time.  Then someone else needed attention first.  So did I say the morning was a bit rough for more than just me.  You got that right.  

 Super night of sleep.  Loved every minute.  Well, when I woke up during the night I was right back to sleep so during the short breaks I loved what was happening.  The morning was a little shorter because I slept through some of it.  Woo. I put together some burps and did some extra decorating on some of the burps because the fabric was a bit boring.  It's a great way to use some bits of thread.  That kept be busy until noon.   Early afternoon I got busy going through some of the containers of fabric in the sewing room.  I've had so many pieced given to me that I know I'll never use them.  I bagged that all up and it's going somewhere.  I'm not sure yet.  I'll need to make some phone calls.  Opening boxes was a good way to find out what I forgot about.  There is more that could go to the quilters group at church but I'm not ready to do that.  I love children's fabric and I found some flannel! Then it was late afternoon and the bottom of the bucket of en

 Another day of stuff that kept me busy.  It was a good day.  I started the day with all the good stuff like sleeping till almost six.  That's very good.  Then there was breakfast and I had an egg (protein) which I got down. It certainly is not my favorite breakfast.  Pills came next and  I was ready for whatever!   I did a big bunch of sewing and cutting fabric which kept me busy till lunch.  There is something about the little engine that could (sewing machine) that keeps me going.  It's that Chattanooga Choo Choo thing that we pass on our way to Georgia. I decided to do some AOL things that needed doing.  One was getting a new password.  So, I did that which is about the extent of my computer talent.  I called my I U Rosie person to see if they had received everything, I had sent concerning financial aid for Kisqali via iPhone and they needed something resent.  I took a picture and did that.  Woo...two Tekkie things.  I checked about Mounjaro stuff.  No financial aid on that

 The night wasn't nice to me, but I'll take what I can get.  I was ready to take a nap on the way to church, but I didn't.  I usually hang around in the west lobby talking to folks but this morning I found my pew ready to hear the choir rehearse.  They are so good with excellent leadership.   We missed our seat buddies.  The folks to the front were gone.  The folks to the back were late for church and sat somewhere else.  I spoke with a family visiting from Avon, a town on the west side of Indy.  Their son is beginning his college life at Butler U. so they were visiting with him and came on over for the church hour. There are little communities everywhere in that church keeping track of their pew buddies as well as visitors.  There will be questions to ask our community next Sunday.  Darren preached an excellent sermon.  He is so meticulous in his thinking, working on every detail of a Sunday service.  Today it was really evident. His prayer for the world included so many i

 So what happened today.   Here goes!  The night wasn't to bad.  I did a lot of waking up but then I did a lot of going back to sleep.  I'll take it.  And once again the morning came around 5:30.  I did a slow wake up with the TV, breakfast and more T was nursing a sore hip so I just took it easy.  That happens more than not so I wasn't surprised.  I expected it to go away and it did.. Ms. Daisy needed to wake up the driver to get her on the way to church and soup kitchen.  We were a wee bit later than usual but still in great shape.  So I did all the early stuff that I usually do getting a whole lot of things started but there was plenty that needed starting as well when the whole crew arrived.  Sarah Ellen and I fill the "clam" with the hot meal and I like to that that ready for her arrival so we can power into the job asap.   There were 8 of us and we finished all the preparation around 10:40. The doors open at 11:00.  And we had a lot of guests. The line was l

 One of the little picture boxes is still missing.  I need Jared!  And I don't have him.  So, it is what it is. Today started out pretty good.  I spent some time in the garden snipping away and filling the cart full of throw away stuff.  There is more and the plan to do more tonight sort of fizzled.  But I was on it this morning until my hip told me enough around 10:40.   Neighbor Barb B stopped by with her dog.  She loves to walk the garden, but it usually is after dark.  What does she see?  Well, wild animals we don't see in the daytime.  It was great talking with her.  I decided it was soup day and remembered that I decided it was soup day.  There was a whole lot of chopping' and I started it all in the soup pot and then transferred it to the crockpot.  It was FULL to the top.  After the prayer before the supper meal I announced all the veggies we were to be thankful for. That sort of took care of the morning and part of the afternoon.  I had medicine to retrieve from Wa

 There's trouble in River City again with pictures.   Today was a great day.  What makes a great day?  Energy.  Maybe I should expand the answer, I'll give it some thought.  But not running out of energy is a great way to spend the day.  Thanks be go I spent some time packing up burps with another 100 soon to be on their way waiting in the car.  There are more burps completed in the fabric line.  I first typed pipeline but it's fabric and not pipe!   I moved outside and took down two huge clumps of Becky Daisys.  There is one more clump but that can wait another day.  It was hot in the sun.   The watermelon juice disappeared over night and the birds got fed again.  I saw three bluebirds at once in the afternoon, so I know for sure there were three males.  I hope they stay for winter.  The hummingbirds are still around, and their feeder got some fresh juice.   I made another phone call to the cancer nurse about the financial papers I should have gotten a few days ago.  And t

 This entry won't be very long because not much happened.  We survived last night's debate with today hearing about it all over again.   ``````````````           This one became bird food. They like zinnia seeds even more than I do.  I took ALL my pills this morning including the one for allergies.  I slept a lot today.  Tomorrow I'll either skip the allergy one or perhaps take a half pill.  I'll figure it out in the morning.  My head was much better today.  After thinking a bit about this I usually have something ugly in the spring and usually it works itself out pretty quickly.  Let's hope that happens sooner than later.             Mr., Blue Bird is back after a long AWOL.  This is a blurry picture.  I don't think he's a seed eater. Yes.  I slept a lot this morning and afternoon, but I did do some watering and then pulling the hose back out of the way of the mowers.  Woo...wore me out.  And before all that Stella and I walked the block again.  This aftern