Memorial Day

We're home enjoying the day just putt zing around. The garden looks lush. I transplanted some zinnias that I planted from seed and every spot seems to be full of something. The wrens have hatched and it's great fun watching them fly in and out of their gourd. Doug has some fantastic pictures of wrens in flight. I'm trying to make some changes in my life since busy, busy, busy has lead to some inflated sugar numbers. I'll hit real reality tomorrow with the doctor calling me for an appointment. Seems my labs stunk! I'm not a bit surprised at that at all. So...days at church are thinning out. I've quit choir a bit early until fall, hand bells are off for the summer. Wed. volunteer day at the church is decreasing in number as well as decreasing number of hrs. at soup kitchen. Seems I need to pay attention to the body a bit more. I'm hoping to change what appears to be what some would call "out of control spin" will slow down for the summer. I had my first 30 minute walk around the block this morning. Uck, Uck. But I did it. It's that exercise thing.

I just finished my third clothes line basket. They are clothes line wrapped with fabric and zig zagged together on the sewing machine. They are fun to do. Patty H. showed me hers which she did in AZ this winter. I sent the first to Kenya to Ann. The sec. one is sitting here. The third one is in the bathroom holding hand wash cloths. It's fun to make something three dimensional.

Hope to stay cool today.

Sun.

Well, it's been a wonderful weekend with both kids and families. JB/family arrived Fri. afternoon and all the kids are wonderful to have around once again. big and little. We didn't do much for the whole weekend except to talk and watch all five grandsons at some point. Eric/family were here for Sat. supper and we all went to church together this morning and then to Stake and Shake for lunch. JB got on the road around 3. The weather was perfect. We enjoyed sitting on the patio from time to time. JB also took a few plants back to Mi. I'm not sure how they will do with a new planting zone. The weather went from cool and cloudy and rainy to HOT sun today. What a shock. The plants are wilting big time but I think they will recover. Andrew sang in church with the Joyful Noise group and they ALL did what I would say is exceptionally well. What a treat. Andrew was front and central singing every word that resulted from many rehearsals not singing a word. Funny kid! It looks like the performance rates at the top and rehearsals don't rate at all. Tomorrow morning I'm staying with the kids. Tuesday is the day to take all of the Pentecost banners down in the sanctuary. There are a ton! Then it's getting the Trinity banners up for one Sun and then...we are into the long green season. Tuesday afternoon a group of people are meeting at Sec. Presbyterian church to discuss putting together a group of ladies here that could work with a group of ladies in western Kenya and thinking of ways each group could benifit each other. That should be very interesting.

Wed. of this week!!!!

I don't know what all this Wed. stuff is but that's when the blog just happens. Michigan Kids are coming to Indy Friday night. 2 more sleeps. Yahoo. The rain should be over by then. I've seen more rain this spring than in my entire life. The plants are loving it but I do think it's time to stop and grow. Cool just doesn't do it. I cleaned up the sewing room on Monday and you know...probably wasn't worth it because I started a small shoulder purse for passports, plane tickets and more for friend Ellen who is once again soon on her way to Kenya. She's taking three trips this year. This one is to take 5 Duke Un. students to western Kenya for their internship summer. I've got to start cooking for JB and family. Always good to have something to pull out of the freezer so I don't need to be in the kitchen when they are here. It's play time for grandma with the grandsons for a day or two. Bells are over for the summer. Wooo...that gives me another night at home. I love that. That's about it.

Guess what...another Wed.

This time it's 5 am and of course I'm still at home doing this job. For some reason I wrote on Monday and I guess I forgot to post. The big news...It was a visit to a new knee doctor and the old doc said I needed a completely new knee and he didn't do those and now the new doc says I don't need a completely new knee and he does the partial replacements as well. Yahoo for a bunch of reasons. There is just one side of the tibia that is in trouble. The partial includes a very short opening to work with and the recovery is about 8 weeks. Now that's the good news. I also got another shot of med which will works for 3 months if the injected med. gets to the right place. That certainly didn't happen with the old doc. That sec. injection never did work. Wooo. Thank goodness for friend doc. Tom Woo for pointing me to Doc. Fisher. I waited for a long time to see him. Then last night I was messing on the Internet and typed in partial knee replacement and found a 70 minute partial knee replacement video and watched the whole thing. Wooo...it was interesting to say the least. So many little saws and screw drivers and all kinds of tools. Lots of fun stuff for doctors to use while playing with ones knee.

For some crazy reason unknown to me I had a horrible sleeping night Monday night. Three hrs from 3 to 6 just doesn't do it. Uck, Uck. So yesterday I really faded around 5 pm and Doug suggested Mark Pi. That was a gift. We had a great talk about our coming summer vacation to Copper Harbor.

Yesterday I did a bit of shopping for Michigan grandson's coming birthdays and ended up at Walmart looking for camping stuff. I've replaced our hot water pot which died last summer and looked for replacements for the card table that we pitched in the dumpster before we left Mi. It was a second throw away that Marcia and Dennis had thrown away after one of their camping trips. You know one of those tables with a cardboard top. Very, very old to say the least. Worked for us for quite a few years but it really got rained on last summer. I have a new table spotted, bigger and better and the new last year cheap, cheap electric skillet just didn't work well at all. So...thinking camping. The Linda Smith Copper Harbor resident writes a blog and she said that the snow cover was really small this year and although they have had some warm days it's cloudy and cold right now. The first fly season has started already. Early, early. There are three fly seasons you know.

Well, time to get the paper in, drink a cup of coffee and then walk the garden as soon as it's light. We might have had a deer visit. I noticed the motion detector light was on during the night. I did spray some of the plants to keep those peskie guys out of the flowers. Just a few more annuals to plant. We need hot weather to get everying moving.

Tonight is bell practice. We play Sunday. Then the next Sun. Andrew sings in church. It's the first time for the 3 and 4 year olds to sing. Should be very interesting. It's a new group with our choir director Mark. The children usually need to be 5 to sing in Denises group.

Wednesday again.

Well, it's almost the same old same old as JB would say. The garden continues on it 's merry way. Potatoes are up and looking great . The beans, lettuse and squash plants are out of the ground. Most of the flowers are planted, the tomatoes are waiting for warmer weather to get moved to the garden. It's been a grand spring with maybe a little more water than needed but that's not under my control. Sarah Ellen is home and we've had one morning of shopping already with more to come at the end of the month. One more week till I see the knee doctor. Yahoo. I'm hanging in there but will be ready to move on to the next part of this adventure. My hope is to have something done sometime in August. We'll see. I've been doing some sewing but not as much as a few months ago. I've got this garden to tend to. More fun to be outside.
The deer are not eating much but I've been spraying deer goop from time to time. I think it's working.