A bummer few days!

As you might have remembered in the last post, I said I was going to see Cousin Ada and then on up to see the Mich. family. Well, some of that happened and some didn't. I wasn't feeling real chipper as Sunday rolled around but bull headed me!!! thought that I didn't want to change my plans. I haven't seen Ada in a long time and we were anxious to get together once again. So...on up to Goshen I went Sunday afternoon. Sunday night sleep was horrible. Coughing till I thought I couldn't do it any more. Lots of awake time with little sleep in between. But...Monday came and we did our trip around Goshen looking at quilt gardens, quilt murals on buildings and real actual wonderful quilts at the Goshen Bag Company. They were just tremendous. We went to the big Essenhous Restaurant and saw even more quilts. Now I felt like crap for some of this but just plugged on able to keep my mind off of what was an asthma episode unlike anything I had had in the past. Then in the early evening I realized that something else was going on which turned out to be another salivary gland attack this time on the other side of my face. I think my glands are wearing out big time. Wooo...that was miserable. And it turned out that sleep was even less then the night before. 45 minute start and then about 4 hrs of horrible pain with watching TV through out the night till around 3 when I realized that I had some Tylenol for arthritis which I took. Woo...the pain diminished and I slept until 6. Well, that was no way to start another leg of the trip to Michigan much farther from home without knowing how things would proceed. So...I headed back home at 8 and pulled in the driveway at 11 relieved to be home. Woo...that's a bunch of detail. Anyway...I've been taking it easy and feeling a bit better but still coughing more than I wish. The inhaler is a life saver. Slept in a chair for part of the night last night but at least I slept. Yahoo. I'm thankful for little things. This salivary gland thing is driving me nuts. I've got to learn new coping skills. I am determined to make this trip again and making it a successful one next time. Yesterday and today I sat a bunch, trimmed a bit of flowers, watched the birds and butterflies and Doug taking wonderful pictures of flowers, bugs, dead stumps and more. He's quite the photographer. Coughing is diminishing, the swollen throat from coughing is improving. But...taking it easy is my life tomorrow as well. The temp is in the low 70's during the day. What a treat.

Rain, Rain...Go away

Woo...we have been a whole two days without rain. Northern Indiana is getting it big time tonight. I've been busy with bibs. Fun, fun. I want to make 30 to send to Kenya this fall. Won't be hard to do. Today was working at the church front desk. I've been training Joe and next week he will be on his own. Tomorrow is soup kitchen. No bells and choir during the summer Yahoo. Sun. afternoon I'm heading north to see cousin Ada for a few days. We haven't gotten together for a long time so I'm sure we'll have lots to talk about. Might head on north again to see the Michigan grandkids for a couple of days if everything works out for Kimmy and Jared. I'm getting out of Dodge!. Yahoo. Yearly Fish Fry at Pleasant Grove UM church is Friday and Sat. evening. That's been a must do for us for at least 35 years. It's been close to 90 degrees. Taking it easy.

Reporting In

Reporting on another rain storm. Huge one last night. Seemed like it lasted for hours with a little thunder added. Once again the ground is full. Standing water still around this afternoon. We celebrated the death of Greenspace last night. Lots of fun with lots of food and drink! Greenspace is a Carmel group of people who for 22 years has worked on getting greenspaces in Carmel. Well, it's happening big time so we needed to die because we are all getting near to the end unlike 22 years ago. We started with no parks and few trees and now we have all kinds of parks and lots and lots of Arbor day tree plantings over the years. And Carmel is receiving national awards for all of that stuff. Sewing baskets and bibs , placemats etc. Sewing machine is staying busy. Back to the machine!

Thursday

Well, the rain finally has stopped for a few days. 4 days total of huge downpours. Now it's low '90 for a few days and then more rain predicted. The plants will cook so it will be trim, trim. Church continues for today with Party in the Park. One of the goals has been to include the neighborhood and it has happened with outside colorful tents, great entertainment, free food and fun activities for the kids. Lots of work but very successful. We may have cracked the neighborhood ceiling on this one. Bread and Bowl is on the calendar, a little work in the garden and sitting on the patio for a snuzz this afternoon. We are wren watching again. The little guy is singing, and singing and no little lady is in sight. Wooo...this is work! Choir party this evening. Doug will go to eat and I'll come after P in the P. Got to make some pitch in food this afternoon.

Good Grief

Weather...It's not really perfect at this point. Including Sunday, we have had huge rain storms every day. Yesterday there were two huge storms. One mid afternoon and one around 8 last night. Big time rain Lightening and thunder and WIND and then it's the same all over again the next day. Almost unbelievable and it is to continue for a few more days. TV radar has been mostly red during these storms. So far the garden is lovin it but the ground is really saturated. It can't hold much more. Sewing continues. I made two more baby bibs yesterday for a gift. The cut pieces of St. Patrick's Day fabric are ready for placemat making. There should be eight. Tonight is the beginning of three days of Party in the Park sponsored by North Church. There will be a huge tent for a free supper and adult stuff, the children will be across the street in the park with tents as well. Should be fun. The neighborhood has been invited with lots of church people attending as well. It's something new never tried before.

Beautiful weather

That continues to be wonderful for plants and gardeners. I can't remember a summer so happy to be on good weather behavior. We have about 2 or 3 dry days and then a summer thunder storm with just the correct amount of rain. Then it just repeats itself. We just had the rain part this afternoon. This morning I really tryed my best to clean up one of the forsythia bushes. I filled a huge garbage container with bush. More to go but I'm on the way. I've got to wait on next weeks garbage day. Then I tore out some old lettuce and planted more. That usually isn't a good thing for the hot summer months but who knows what will happen this summer. Gardening is a gamble anyways. It's trim and clip and move plants and then just a great repeat. Went grocery shopping and Doug said Steak and Shake tonight. I'm doing some sewing from quilt pieces that Peg gave me. Already cut fabric and she just got bord with the sewing part. Most of the fabric from Sylvia G has found a home of sorts. One more pile to go. I should have included it in the Luthern Church stuff. I'll just make another trip. I made two little quilts and 8 bibs for her twin granddaughters from her fabric. She'll get them Sunday. Bread and Bowl was interesting Thursday. All sorts of folks come. Some are just fine and some have mental problems more so then usual. We had a huge blow up on Tuesday so I was ready for the unexpected Thursday. And it came big time. No one solution fits all. Infact it takes as many solutions sometimes as we have people. Keeps one on their toes for the hr. that we are open. It got very, very explosive on Tuesday and only explosive on Thursday. That was a good thing. We were ready to say the least. We're dealing with fractured people for an hr. who come to B and Bowl. It's another day in the neighborhood as Mr. Rogers would say.

Bummer

The deer found the tomatoes last night. I sprayed them with stinky, stinky rotten egg mixture. It's really bad stuff and should keep the deer away. We'll see. Poor tomatoes. Seven of the eight got it some more than others.

Gone for a while

I just haven't put myself on the chair to make an entry. It's about time or past. Eric had his 40th birthday. Where have the years gone. We went to Steak and Shake and then here for icecream and cake. I just love being with the little grandsons. There is never a dull moment. Working hard on sugar stuff. We've added back a little pill that I was taking a few years ago and didn't take when better days were here. My numbers are great once again and the really importnat thing is that I'm back taking readings. It's such a drag but life could be much, much worse. Don't know really why I'm complaining about readings. Bad girl. The weather continues to be wonderful. The sky remindes me of Ohio days with bright blue color and huge puffy clouds and a great little breeze to go with it. Humidity is very low. The garden looks so lush. Potatoes are blooming, tomatoes look great and the deer has not found them yet. Yahoo. I'm still seeing tracks left in the early, early morning. The whole garden could be gone so I consider my self lucky. Just a few things are missing. Not much on the calendar this week. I'm really trying to keep it that way. A church friend unloaded 9 huge containers of fabric on me so that's been the sorting activity of the past few days. I sorted through all of it, keeping the cotton and flannel fabric but bagging 4 garbage bags that I'm unloading hopefully at a church near by. Don't know what they do with it but the bagged fabric I would never use. There is another stack that will go to the quilters guild. I made two baby quilts for my fabric friend's twin 8 month old granddaughters. They are so cute. That is the babies. The quilts are bad either. I want to work on bibs for these little darlings as well. Church is getting ready for a huge event called Party in the Park. It's going to be a duzzy for sure. All free, huge tent for eating as well as tents for children's activities, jazz band one night, drummers one night and the Lawrence HS band the last night. Should be a ton of fun. I'm a guide along with 4 other people for 2nd graders. I hope not to work very hard.