IN Carmel

 puzzle.  You are right.  The puzzle is in control.  There is nothing like trying to fix something that keeps me busy.  I'm elated to find the easiest and hardest solution.  This puzzle is a doozie and keeps me ticking.  It's a bit difficult to do with one eye behind a warm washcloth since it would seem that I've developed a sty.  A warm wet cloth is the first line of treatment.  I'm on it unless I want to go puzzling.   This morning Doug and I made a stop at Wild Birds.  The goal is to keep the Bluebirds happy while visiting the feeder.  Their mealworms are gone and it seems that the store has had a run on mealworms.  We're trying now a mix of mealworms and suet.  And they are loving it.   We filled up on gas while out getting loaded up for the snowstorm that is predicted for Wed.  The cupboards have enough food so I think we're set for whatever comes our way.  And I have a puzzle.  Whil...

 Perhaps of lesser importance or maybe not.  I decide yesterday to start a puzzle.  The Eric R's. showered everyone at Christmas with new puzzles.  I love to do puzzles as do others in the family.  So yesterday the puzzle this one a camping theme, started and there is something very adictive comes out in me.  So...a late posting today.  Maybe even more late postings until that puzzle is finished.  A piece here and a piece there.  It's a tough one but still fun.  Every winter there is at least one puzzle put together.  So that's the reason for a 3:30 posting.  And football games are starting so just lots to do.  Church this morning included altar flowers.  Such a refreshing reminder on a cold snowy morning.  Speaking of snow...more to come this week.   ISo enjoy the winter and enjoy the flowers of spring.  Our altar flowers were given in honor of Ruth Shaw's 91's birthday.  She is one spring ch...

 Don't mess with Mother Nature.  She must have listened to yesterday's rant!  Between 10 and 1 we got a great snow cover.  All the winter brown is now covered with beautiful white.  It's a fairyland.  The only question is, where are the birds?  Thawed the birdbath water, threw out the seed for the ground-eating birds, and removed the snow cover from the mealworms.  The birds must have found a warmer spot for protection than I provided for them.  The Downy's did show up for tasty suet.   News flash.  After posting this the breakfast bell must have rung at 8 am and this was the scene.   They are back.  In fact, the whole tribe of birds is back feasting and drinking.  It's a party again even if it is 1 degree of warmth this morning.  It's a very integrated flock of birds.   There is always a starling or two that really take over the mealworm feeder but for now, are easily scared away with the blu...

 Yes...trying but I think a little more effort needs to be made.  We've had some cold but where is the snow.  iPhone says snowflakes and one can easily miss them if not looking out the window ALL the time.  So a bit more of try would make living a little more interesting.  There is nothing like being snowed in for a few days to create a whole lot of stories. I love the no eggs, milk, and bread at the grocery store story purchased by the no eggs, milk or bread eaters of the world.   The two-room switches are completed.  Now it's on to their closets.  So fortunate to have doors that cover everything for now.  The trouble is that the MIND knows what's behind the (green?) door.  I'm sure that green door comment dates me.   All is ready but at this point I not certain what the ready will be.  Looks like fun work to me whatever it is. Thinking about doing and then proceeding to getting it completed happened this time....

 Yes...Mid afternoon now.  I haven't been sick, I haven't been sleeping, I haven't been sitting.  It was a working PT morning.  Then a stop at Goodwill (I'm looking for a chair for the ME room. and I didn't find anything) and the library to leave a couple stacks of gardening and quilting books.  I'm cleaning out what I don't use. The rest of the day has been a continuation of switching rooms and then putting rooms back together.  I'm getting there but not quite yet.  It's a breath of fresh air that's blowing through the house.  Here's the new ME Room.  The sewing room isn't ready for a picture yet but close.  Tugging and pulling and lifting and stretching.  My body is a bit sore with this kind of PT..  Bummer.  Moving rooms is a great alternative to moving the whole house to some other site.  The sewing room now is a part of the computer room. That room is a bit smaller and it's pretty full.  That's a good ...

 Yup, cold and NO snow to speak of yet.  I think the neighbor girl made a couple of snowmen when we had about two inches of snow that lasted two minutes.  So my little snowmen waiting on the steps remind me of snow fun.  Shoveling around them is no problem.  This is a collection that came from Goodwill.  What a gift!   This winter the house is warm.  Our old furnace wore out long before we replaced it with temperatures outside at 1 degree as they are this morning allowing the house to be around 60 at the most the last few years  This morning the house is a toasty 68 degrees.  It's something about an improved boiler that is such a gift.  Well, not a gift.  We're paying for it!!!   Yesterday's session at PT went well.  Michael's routine was a bit easier.  I've done some googling on balance changes and aging.  They seem to go together...OOPS...not seem...They do go together.  Some important parts...

 It has been, is, or will be Tuesday everywhere.  And it's a cold Tues in central Indiana.  11 degrees cold.  The birds have been taken care of, breakfast is over, crossword completed and Doug is UP!  It's time to start the day.  There is not much on the calendar for the day.  PT Michael will hear about the latest hospital hoopla that occurred unknown to him after our last session.  Should be an interesting conversation.   A brief stop at the library, grocery, and then home for the day should do it!   Since I have no outside flowers blooming, I'll share the latest indoor flowers.  There are a few more flowers poking out of the Ground Hog Cactus, usually knowns as the Christmas Cactus.  Yes.  A bird house is waiting for the summer, this one with a hole big enough perhaps for a woodpecker.  This was planned for a wren but when making the hole, the gourd caught on fire and just became a house for a woodpecker....