Monday

 I call today a Katchup Day.  I needed more sleep and sitting time.  Yesterday's nativity work was perhaps a bit much.  There was a great sleep last night and it happened all over again this morning and this afternoon.  So there is not very much to show for the day.  And what did happen had everything to do with Georgia.  

This afternoon Doug had an iron blood shot appointment, so I took him and then did a Meijer's stop, a library stop and a Kroger stop while he was at I U North.  That took care of the last to do list for the day.  I said hello to the ladies that work in the IU North Center when Doug was finished, reminding them to expect me in on the 2nd and 4th of December.  In the meantime...Georgia, here we come.  

                        Three hand dug small lakes provided the first water on the monastery grounds. 

I always clean out the refrigerator before a trip, making a dump on anything that might go bad while we are gone.  Some soup got pitched.  Was it good or bad, I couldn't tell so it earned the dump decision.  And to have anything left to eat tonight I made good on a fresh batch of cauliflower soup with cauliflower, celery, onions and a couple of hash browns with turkey broth.  It was really good with the extra soup ending up in the freezer.  Corn bread finished out the meal.  It joined the soup in the freezer.  

Then it was back to sitting with another nap.  I sure was tired.  

        The monks who moved from Kentucky to Georgia years ago built this place of worship. 

One thing that has been so irritating to me this fall is the existence of something I'm allergic to.  I've done more sneezing, have angry eyeballs that I would like to sit on the mantal and a nose that has required more than one box of Kleenex.   At tunes I have called Kisqali the culprit, but I think now I'm wrong.  Today I gave up and got more allergy medicine.  Pills, pills, pills.  They are keeping me alive, and I hope a bit more comfortable.  I think I could blame it on no killing frost so far.  A whole lot of things have sprung back from the heavy snow we had a few days ago.  

                                There will be plenty of these during the time spent with friends. 

I packed my bag and Doug packed his.  We should stay somewhere between Knoxville and Chatanooga tomorrow night and then on to Conyers in the morning.  We'll hit the ground running with unpacking the car getting the Indiana food in the refrigerator and then when everyone arrives we'll be off to the grocery store with lists of things that will fill out the menu for the rest of the visit.  After that supper comes and then an evening of being together doing whatever.  It could be a puzzle, card game or TV among a few more choices.  We'll be set till the end of the visit. 

                                Gone for now but sure to be back in Kathy's garden.  Sooooooo pretty.