IN Carmel

                                     Sitting on the common milkweed.  The garden is full of milkweed.                                                                                 The past couple of years has seen a big decline in numbers.   After all the getting up stuff was completed, I ubered Eric on to work.  Their car is being serviced today and they will should be back in business tonight.  Then it was to the sweatshop also known as the sewing/computer room.  The sewing machine did a lot of work with 20 more burps finished and enough fabric torn into strips to sew another 30 burps. The marking was fin...

          I chose what I thought was a file of winter pictures of a few years ago.  I guess it's not winter. Another early morning.  It is what it is.  So, today it was rise and shine a little before 6.  There was breakfast and some TV morning stuff continuing with knitting until I stopped when the scarf told me it was half done.                                      This is why a dad wants strong sons.  So they can get a free ride.  I moved on to burps, put 20 together and then sewed the first go around. I managed to turn them all right side out but then left them to finish on another day.  That took care of the whole morning. They are time consumers.   Rita asked me how I get the ends with such a beautiful curve.  I told her I make a line to follow tracing around a bowl.  But making almost...

Today there were some things that happened and some that were to happen that didn't happen.  So, I guess the word is flexibility although sometimes what is planned and not happening is a bit disconcerting.  Super mornings with a Stanley full of coffee from the Jared pot.  We chose to never get a new table cloth since the one you see was on the first ever camping trip to the U P.  Eric was 2.  Now he's a little past 52.  So, what happened.  I finished the 10 burps started yesterday and I did a lot of ripping fabric to prepare another 25 burps.  I think they are pretty cute when all the steps to completion are finished.  I bagged up another 100 burps that I'll deliver later in the week. Information about our Y program Living Strong continued to be in the mixing bowl with the beaters turned on high. Will we meet or will we not meet. It was just a bit frustrating with a decision made and then changed once again.  I've lost count how many the...

 A few things the same, and a few things different.  That's the Sunday news.   Up early and I completed the final sew around to 10 more burps.  I bundled up 10 scarves for the new mothers in the Goodwill program delivering them to Ginny at church later. Then at 10 we were on our way south to church picking up Rita and Bob on the way.                       This is our Associate Minister Jill, mother of Zavier and deceptive in showing her age.                    She has pastored other churches and has worked in the hospital setting with hospice patients.                                        A woman of many talents, one being a deliverer of great sermons. Jill preached today. It was the first Sunday of the month celebrating communion.  Jill n...

 It was a very quiet morning with not much happening.  Just the usual with breakfast, birds and finishing another scarf.  That sort of was all of it.   Late morning and the rest of the day was a bit different.  I decided there were plenty of scarves in the basket.  That made it a burp day.  And I stuck to it finishing the twenty that were in process.                  30 dot burps finished with a new stack waiting for the sewing machine, TOMORROW. I  pulled out another cute sheet ripping it into strips for more burps and doing the same with white flannel.  I'll need to do more flannel since the sheet was large and produced enough strips for 38 burps.  That's a whole lot of burps from one sheet.  I wonder if I counted correctly.                Aren't these cute.  I think the figures are from nickelodeon.  At least that's ...

      One of many Fridays added to my life.  I am grateful.  This morning happened sort of early, but I decided to stay in bed where it was warmer. Just a super excuse for that decision.  Then it was time to meet the day which started with breakfast and receiving a Jared text with a minus 10 Michigan report. I was on my way to I U North at 7:30 for the regular monthly infusion visit with a zero report on temperature.   It's always great to visit with such positive folks at the front desk, then Eric who works at the second-floor desk and the nurses who prepare the infusion and administer it. So many kind thoughtful folks.                                                A harbinger of things to come with barely a touch of pink. Then out the door around nine knowing that the Goodwill stores would be open....

                        A good reminder I read every day that tells me to keep my mind in a healthy place. Today never got out of slow gear. The car did not leave with me in the front seat.  It was a good home day for a change.  One I needed more than I realized.  So, it was a gift I didn't know was going to be a gift.             Not this year but a great reminder of a couple of years ago.  I did this all by myself!  Fun, fun. There was a good sleep with a good breakfast with more quiet time before Doug appeared.  I'll add, he is never noisy, so I guess quiet continued even after he was up.  I left him retrieve the paper and then picked up the knitting for a few minutes.  I'll do the same this evening with the hope another scarf goes in the finished basket.  If it doesn't happen...no harm done.  Today was burp day.  No...