IN Carmel

 Another Monday.  There have been many.  I think I've had 1524 of them.  Math wasn't my best subject, but I think that number is close to being correct. I am more than grateful.  In another 13 days soon to be 87 with 52 Mondays in a year.  Should I have added the 0 year?  Yikes. There are many Mondays.  Go figure yours.   There was breakfast and the garden walk and sure enough, sleep gave the embarrassed zinnias a gift.  They look great although a day in the sun will have some affect.  Tomorrow they should really feel good.   I did a bit of clipping this morning and found that yesterday and today's deer food resulted in 63 naked stems with not a day lily bloom left to show themselves to the world.  Grr for sure.                              The leftovers from the midnight meal of daylilies. Who turned on the lights?  ...

 Sunday...A day of Rest.  Well, it remains to be written about.                                                    So pretty and so perfect.  This is from last years saved seeds.                                                                                           I think there will be a lot of yellow in the garden this year. Another good breakfast of yogurt, almonds and blue berries with a cup of coffee to get me on the road of doing.  The patio was the place and the birds were the entertainment.  Sorry to say the bunny evaded the trap...

 This has been a busy bee day.  Woo.  It started the usual way of waking up.  That was a good thing to happen.  Breakfast on the patio happened again watching the morning busy birds.  Humm.  I also discovered the bunnies had been busy.  Yes, back again in the garden even after the eviction notice.  Dumb Bunny!  The two leaves left on the broccoli are no more.  Now we have a new piece of garden art.                                           New Garden Art.  Cheap!  M Angelo in process. Only a bunny or two can create this. The area to the north of the patio is lush with green.  So lush the steppingstones had disappeared.  It happens every year and the thought was I need to do something about it sometime soon.  Well, the soon came about five minutes later.  It was 7 am and I worked i...

 Great night of sleeping.  And this morning, around 8 I was on my way to IU North for bloodwork. Dr. Schneider's nurse Julia called at noon.  Next Tuesday I'll be visiting again Larry, Curly, and Moo, my Kisqali pill buddies.  White count numbers have improved, and those 3 pill buddies will be coming my way.  Super Good News...the headlines of the day.                                                                                      So big and so pretty. I stopped at the library book slot to deposit my books on the way home.  A planned afternoon trip didn't materialize.  There was a sleepy Doug that got in the way. More gardening books with pretty pictures.  There is nothing better than th...

                                                      The first swallowtail of the year munching on dill.   Well, the sewing project started last night immediately after coming home with the pillow.  Thinking about possibilities consumed my mind and I started using an old sheet trying a few things.  At one point I was doing some crappy sewing so I started all over with a 100% improvement on the project.  I quit after coming through with what I called a good hole in place.  There was more work waiting for completion today, Thursday.                           Can you find the caterpillar?  Look carefully.  I missed it when I took the picture.  Last night we received our annual summer phone call from Jared and...

This is the queen of the patio geranium.  Maybe I'm saying that because this pot has gotten plenty of Bloom Buster fertilizer.  There are 27 geranium buds and flowers hanging on this one plant.  Woo.  That's a lot of children for one mother.  Yes.  One of these days I will not be thinking about the hot weather.  Which one it will be is anyone's guess.  There could be a bit of rain this afternoon and then there might not be a drop.   My mother always had this perennial in her garden.  I thought it looked like a rooster's comb.  It's Monarda or Bergamot.  I moved it from what had grown to be all shade to sunny spots last year.  Had I left it where first planted the tree that now is gone would have brought it back in the sun this year.  It's doing well in it's three new places.  There was another good night of sleep.  I am grateful.  All the stuff that morning brings happened.  I spent time in th...

By my count with the heat of the day starting Sunday, this is the third day.  It is stinky hot.  I did have a great night of sleep moving to the living room with the windows open, and the fan running.  I'll be there again tonight.                                                                              A new first timer for the 2025 year.  This morning there was great patio time. I thought the wrens were gone but by 9 when the parents stopped by with food, I knew that to not be the case.  Once again there were many fly ins with food and the baby talk was loud.   Because it was broken, I repurpose this bird feeder into a bird house.  These birds have stained glass walls.  I grabbed the little raking tool and ...

 Let me say first...This week promises to be HOT.  I won't be doing much with weather in the 90's.  So here comes a not much Monday.  There will be more days like this.  The night ended at 3 when I heard a bump in the night with Doug falling out of bed.  What entertainment at 3.  That never happened before and will happen again if he insists on sleeping too close to the edge.  It just made me laugh.  Of course, he wasn't hurt but had a hard time getting back in bed, the big rug by the bed slipping on him.  Funny guy for sure.  Well, that ended my night.  When he made it back to the bed he slept till 8:30 again. I'm still giggling.  Poor guy!  He never knows when he's funny.   Today was Dr.day so it was a trip to Indy to the Simon Cancer Center.  I told Doug I thought I could do this visit without him.  I think he was happy about that.  So south to see Dr. Schneider.  He had a few question...