Wednesday

 

What a gift, returning year after year with little fan fair.  They just come, filling our hearts with spring.  

If you read to the bottom of yesterday's post, you know already that there was an early trip to Noblesville for the annual eye exam.  There are two kinds of drops now in my future and hot packs to my eyes in my future opening oil glands that provide oil for tears.  Like right now!  The secondary cataract is still hanging in there.  And the seasonal allergies are evident.  There is some dry eye stuff that isn't really dry eye.  That's a bad name that has gotten attached to the problem. So, now you know.  I love my eye doctor who wants to hang in there another 14 months making it a 50-year gig.  I've been with Dr. Dana Meyers for at least 30 or more of those 50. So that was the visit report.  

I squeezed a little of this in before leaving for the doctor.  One set of sheets from Cleveland Nancy, one from Carmel Beth.  Both great friends of each other.  So far, the pillowcases are ready to morph into burps. 

I stopped at the Westfield Goodwill looking for a bottom queen sheet.  Nothing but kings.  So, I came on home just happy that the morning was over, and I was home again.  I did some knitting, ate lunch and then decided to hit Walgreens for drops.  Woo.  Those drops had better do their thing.  Not very cheap.  I did more sheet looking at the nearby Goodwill with no luck.  Nora's Goodwill was the same.  Nothing.  I brought one home with no size attached.  It's a KING.  and I'm going to make it a queen.  

                    Not a very hard job.  Convincing myself that Queens were not to be, was harder. Time to sew right down the middle.  It's pinned and waiting  Bobbin filled and it is ready set go!  

                You might think I'm a gender changer but in this case 18 inches taken out of the middle from top to bottom will make a queen all for 3.99. And if the restless leg syndrome can be fixed, this might be the last sheet I'll need for a very long time.  It's the Sleep Apnea doctor that I visit once a year that needs a visit again at some point. I think the medicine needs to be doubled.  It is just a little something else to fix.  I'm majoring in fixing many things it would seem. 

Yes, there was time in the back yard again discovering the blue bells appearing right along with the bleeding hearts.  It's the pink and blue time of year.  It will be a few weeks before that happens.  

                               This is the best sign that says, there is a change in the air.  Blue Bells.

                                          And walking along side are the Bleeding Heart plants.  

I did some raking, gathered all the throw away stuff in my container and pulled it to the B Blues.  And on the walk to the B Blues, there was a something unseen like perhaps an ivy vine, that trapped my foot and put me on the ground with my face in the dirt.  It was a hard fall, but garden falls are usually pretty safe in most cases.  This one was that kind of fall.  Safe.  Spring brings soft dirt. 

The special Lake Superior gift is back in the herb garden. The perennial sweet peas found where once there were villages supporting the copper mines of the U P will be climbing over the driftwood.  It's a beautiful sight. 

Supper was a quick liver and onions thing again.  Our B 12should be at its best tonight.  Then back to the reduction project with the hope we'll have a new sheet by the time we are ready to sleep.  

So the day came with a lot of information, more play time and again another trip to the drug store.  Some things just don't change.  I'm happy for solutions that can make a difference.  It's the drops turn to prove its worth.

Nothing on the calendar for tomorrow although we need to eat.  We might fix that.