It's Sunday

Just a few days later. Rain has stopped for now and today it's in the high 80's but doesn't feel really, really hot. I would think the plants are lovin' it. Friday night the kids...all 4 came for supper. We had a wonderfully special evening. Noah is still dragging a bit but Andrew seems to be over for the most part what he had. Sat. morning we went to Andrew's scoccer game and Kat has posted a wonderful picture of Andrew and his very best scoccer friend. Dug a bit around the flowerbeds but not to much. Need to think about mud balls but that will be history in a few days. Today was church and the 4 Duke interns were at the service. Three will be going to western Kenya on Thursday. One stays here for the summer. Tonight Patty Hefner is having a supper for a bunch of Kenya connected people. I'll need to leave early to connect with SArah Ellen at the airport. Should be interesting because today was the Indy 500. It could be a zoo experience. Beginning to make more plans for Regina who is coming to Indy for heart surgery in June. She was Joe Mamlin's first nurse at Eldoret. Three of us will be housing her for her stay here in Indy which I think will be around 2 months. Makes me clean and throw out! Yahoo. Never hurts to do a little of that and I have a great reason to clean out a room.

Interesting few days

Much going on with the weather this week. Storms, STORMS and MORE STORMS. I'm hoping it's over soon. Continued to work in the garden before the rains came. Lots of interesting plants and more to be planted when the storms are over. It's been a week for sick grandchildren Andrew and Noah. I think Noah got the worst of the illness but hopefully he is ready to turn the corner avoiding hospitalization and on to better health. Sick kids are no fun. Just makes folks worry a bit wondering when things will turn for the better. I did a little sewing with squares of fabric brought back from Kenya, worked at the church desk for two days and ready to just chill out for a bit. Soup Kitchen was nice and quiet today. John Marshall H. S. is over for the year so it was just back to the old folks. Made it much easier. My wrist is doing some funny things and friends think I got a spider bite. I think not but it is extremely sore and swollen with some rather pink spots. It's a crazy thing. When I finish at the desk this afternoon Doug and I are going to McDonalds across the street and then to choir practice. That's a nice way to end the day.

5 days later

Just back from a very nice little Kenya party put on by John Herron Highschool. Good music, food, good dancing, and good visiting with lots of folks hearing about the latest trip to Kenya made by three good friends. The weather was perfect for the party. Yesterday and today...NO rain. I started scratching in the garden, pulling out dead plants and planting two more flats of flowers. It's beginning to look like things might survive. Maybe! I'm beginning to like my flowerbeds. Will do a bit more tomorrow, maybe even tilling the rest of the garden. Depends on the soil. The beans are up, hope the peas soon follow and the onions look like they might start growing. I have a pumpkin to plant along with a few more herbs and another tomato. I hope the rain holds off for a few more days. Busy sewing more bags and now I've got to start selling them again. Jim is still here and we're going to hear the symphony tomorrow at 5 pm. That's it for the five days.

Monday afternoon.

Well, I was out of here Friday morning heading north to see Ada and bro. Jim. Had a great time and then headed back home Sat. afternoon in the RAIN. It poured there, drove through no rain and then at home I thought the flood was coming. The ground is super saturated and the plants are saying HELP! Some I just pulled out because they were way to far gone. Others might be following. Such extreams. Today I did a little scratching in the dirt but not much. The herb garden is a mud bath center. Hard on the plants for sure. The temp is a bit cool but that's great since there is so much water in the ground. If it were hot there would be a major, major melt down. Maple seeds are everywhere so I got the patio deseeded this morning. More coming but I can stay ahead of this. Jim should be around this week. Not keeping to much on the calendar.

Well, I've been scraping the dirt out from underneath my fingernails getting stuff in the ground. I hate garden gloves. Got to feel the dirt. Tilled Monday morning. Worked like crazy to miss the rain and it has disappeared entirely so...watering this morning. I was hoping I could avoid that. Not so. I planted snow peas, beans, onions, peppers, and two tomatoes along with a slu of herbs and lettuce. The heat is here to get things moving along. Last week, way to much rain...this week we are missing all the big storms. Never satisfied. Planning a trip North on Friday to see cousin Ada and big brother Jim. It's time for a road trip. Did some cleaning yesterday. It's crazy how one could clean the whole house in a day and now...two rooms are the max. with an extra sweep here and there. Should get to the kitchen today. I think the outside is pretty well done for this week. Cleaning the house is not one of my favorite things to do.

Sunny Monday Morning

It's great to see the sun shining in the window. Rain is predicted again for tomorrow so today I'm breaking out the rotatiller. It's my one chance. Last fall when I put the thing away I had a horribly sore knee. I finally just gave up on garden work. Yahoo...not any more. My knee is sooooo good. I poked around in the dirt yesterday and planted a few flowers. More to come. Had lunch with Eric and family as well as Kat's family. That was fun. Sat with Andrew while we ate and we had some wonderful conversations. I love 4 year olds. He tells jokes that just don't make any sense except to him and we just laugh and laugh. Did a few more bags for Kenya, collecting matchbox cars at church for Joe Mamlin and that seems to be going well. Cars are great diversion toys for sick children. Packed trunks on Friday with SEM. That's going well. She will be here till Thursday morning and I'm off to the airport with her at 6 am or earlier for an 8 am flight to Columbus O. She'll be back on Race day the 29th. Wonder what the trip to the airport will be? Probably not good. Morning is cool. Hurry up sun and warm this place up. I'm ready to play in the dirt.

Wed,

Brrr...we are having cold weather. I mean cold. And I can't forget the rain. It keeps on coming. That means that it's impossible to work in the flowerbeds and garden. I did get some plants moved to shady places so the sun garden is pretty bare and it's impossible to do anything to fix that since the rain just keeps on coming. I lost a bunch of stuff probably because of the dry summer and the snow pack that came and stayed for the winter. Yesterday was a big sew day. Playing with fabric is so much fun. I made 10 more bags that can be used at the grocery store. Hope to sell them somewhere. I have some good possibilities. Friend Sarah Ellen is here from Kenya. Seeing her this afternoon after I leave church. It's organize the garage afternoon. This morning is my morning to volunteer at the front desk. SEM and Patty and I had a wonderfully delightful time with beautiful, fun loving, beautiful sop. singer Sylvia McNair on Sunday. She has been to Kenya with Sarah Ellen and wanted to connect with her again here in Indy. So she left three concert tickets for us and we had a blast. Sylvia sang at the Circle Theater Sun afternoon. We had supper with her and such a wonderful time talking, which brought back so many old memories, until 9pm. She set her lap top computer on the table and 400 Kenya pictures flashed by while we talked. What a treat. Such good Sunday memories. The rest of the week should be same old same old as JB would say. Soup Kitchen tomorrow/choir practice tomorrow and then I'm hoping for some weather to plant but nothing is for sure at this point. I think our computer problems have been fix. Good wonderful Eric G. came over last night and got rid of a bunch of stuff and changed some stuff and now the computer feels like it can work again. Yeah for Eric. Phones are working and I'm hoping all the troubles are over. Now if we could only fix the weather.