Monday Even

Great B B this weekend...Go Buckeys. I love to see a GOOD game. Weather still continues to be warmer than usual although tonight it is to be in the high 30's. Grass is growing, weeds need pulling, and I'm lovin my quilt sewing. Humm...got to rethink some things. It's back to doc. land. Getting old is crazy. I was to have my thyrid checked two years ago and I finally got to the doc today. Ultra sound tomorrow. There are bumps discovered three years ago and I was supposed to get them checked yearly. Well, I could say my year is 1000 days or so. So tomorrow is the ultra sound. Don't think there will be any change because I can still swallow. Foot is still in a brace and we'll take care of that little thing is April. This week is preparation for Palm Sunday. I'll be at church everyday this week doing something. Today I took down all the stuff in the west entrance and put up some flags. Tomorrow I'm meeting a friend and we're picking up Palm plants from a greenhouse and I will work at church with a few more things in place. Wed. is same old...desk and handbells. Thurs. is B and B and choir. Friday is preparation of palm frons for the parade which is on Sunday as well as preparing for a work shop on Sat. I was asked to have coffee/pastries/tea etc. for 45 folks who will be attending the workshop. I'm using an overflow of Parana which we had last Sunday. I would say it's easier to do this then tell someone else where to find stuff and all that goes with it. Then on to Panaras Sat. evening and Sunday...Parade time with a whole bunch of hoopla.

And the best is finding time every day...I can do that...for Y workout. Today it was 15 minutes on the Treadmill and an hr. on the bike with a good book and earphones. Time flies. It seems that when 3:00 rolls around I'm off to the Y. I made another crockpot meal and had neighbor Judy come over for supper.

Now back to my room, Chris Mathews, quilt makingand a cup of coffee. Life is good.

This week

The week has been pretty tame compared to last weekend. But...it was busy none the less. I'm moving on with the quilt top. It's about 2/3rds finished. There is no rush but I do like to keep moving. Speaking of moving. Our new minister moved with the family to be nearer to North. They bought a cute little old house and Tues was the last minute cleaning. Well, not only cleaning but painting and somehow I got that job along with another lady. By the afternoon I had painted 4 different rooms with 4 different colors. Some was baseboard, some new plaster but the first room was a bedroom and I covered all 4 walls with a bit of help. Woo...I'm getting to old for that as I realized Tues. night when I thought I hurt in every muscle. I just have never remembered what all that work does to the body. But I can say I really had something to show for the day. I spent some time making doctor appointments. One for a thyroid checkup, and one for an asthma evaluation. I also have an appointment for an injection in my foot which should help but that doesn't happen until after Easter. So...I'm hoping the body work is finished for a while at some point. The weather continues to be warm with every flower on every tree and bush in bloom. It's beautiful. Today is a bit cooler with some rain. It's B Ball time. Back to see N. C. and later IU and Kentucky. Woo...I hope we win that game. It will be tough. Last time we played Kentucky we beat them and I would imagine that will be great motivation for Kent.

It's Saturday

Interesting week to say the least. Quilt top continues to grow slowly. The longer I do it the better I like it. That's encouragement to say the least in connecting all 81 patches. I'm up to almost 36 at this point. Tuesday I spent some cleaning time at the new preacher's house. It's a charming little old nugget not to far from the church. Wed. was church desk and handbells...Thursday soup kitchen and choir...Friday was clean out the flower beds and I really got a bunch of stuff pulled up and raked out pulled up and most beds sort of ready for spring besides working on the quilt. NCAA basketball is in full swing so that also took care of part of Thursday and Friday and now Sat.

Now the following ends up in the plus column. So...here's the story. 3 weeks ago I went to Indy Ortho to try to determine why my foot has been on the fritz for about 2 months. Doc. Lehman game me a brace to wear which really has helped but has not eliminated the problem. So...we discussed on Fri. what the options are and sometime next week I'll get a shot of cortisone. Yahoo. it usually is a miracle worker. All the eggs are in the basket and am hoping for the best. That happens sometime next week. The second event!!!! Friday night I felt a little twinge in my chest thinking that all the garden work during the day or maybe all that repetitive hand sewing was the cause. It just hurt when I moved a little. Well, around 4 am this morning Wooo...woke up with a horrible pain in my chest. Got up...walked around for a while wondering what was going on and finally thought...dah...just get on with it so woke Doug and we were off to the heart hospital. The short story is ...after xrays...lots of blood work...talk with the cardiologist...I probably pulled a muscle when gardening. And...it's right over my heart. It must have been a big pull. So...Tylenol is keeping the pain under control Doc. said...If there is any unexpected pain between your head and feet...time to see the emergency room doc. So...anyone who reads this remember the doc. Thank you heart for remaining healthy.

Then around 8 this morning off to IU North for my usual bloodwork for Doc. Goens. Wooo...three hospital related visits in less than 24 hrs. That must be a record.

The garden weeds are still in piles...need to get them into the garbage containers at some point. Not in a big hurry.

Oh, yes. another Friday thing. It's been 80 degrees for most days this week and the flowering bushes are all out in beautiful form. So...no flowers from the florist reserved for Sunday services so...Sunday there will be forsythia, star magnolias, flowering pears and more. The arrangements are huge and look so spiffy in the sanctuary on either side of the altar. I call them southern arrangements because they have no definite form and one can see and the air can flow through them My car was a mess after taking all that stuff to church so did a little car clean up today. It was unfit for the living. So...back to sewing and watching Ohio State play.

Sunday afternoon

Woo...I say that a whole lot. Today was a woo day. Time changed first. So off to church at the new 6:30 but was really 5:30. Arrived at 7 and started hospitality stuff. Today a visiting Free Meth. collage choir from Greenville, Il. sang and we prepared a little big more for them. Beautiful kids singing beautiful music.

Pizza for lunch was ordered for them and Mark needed clean up people so.... we were the clean up people eating with the kids. Fun...fun. So...I've already had a sleep and now am ready for the Ohio St. Mich. St. game. Should be a good one I hope. And choir director Mark is singing at the opera and then he's off to Germany for a week to hear his favorite female person sing. Some people do lead different lives. Crazy world but room for all of us. Preacher Darren preached a wonderful sermon on radical hospitality. Woo...it was a good one. He had some interesting thought provoking information on poverty. His brain is full.

This week...hum...got to think. Worked on the quilt top almost every minute I was home. I hit the jack pot on fabric Thursday. Favorite person Jo and husband are moving to Atlanta and having an open house today and Thursday moved her stash of fabric on to me.. She is a beauitful quilter and now I have beautiful stuff and a whole bunch of it. She said and I would agree that I won't be at the fabric store for a long time. That happened Thursday evening so Friday I sorted and ironed all day. Then yesterday another favorite friend Beth called and said she was unloading her fabric and moving it to my house. Woo...What gifts. So HOLD the fabric friends.

First meeting for the 2012 Kenya Carnival at Sec. Presb. on Labor Day weekend is Monday. I always like to go to show my support. I don't need another job but I think an old lady at the meeting is important. I can do that. Friday I go back to Doc. Lehman for my foot. The brace I think is helping but the foot is really sore when it's not on. I would think it will take a lot of time for the tendon to say..."HEALTH". That's about it from HIllsdale Dr. this time.

Woo...Busy week

I posted last Sat. and on Sunday we went to church and then left for Georgia to see Doug's brother Dee. Us old folks take two days to drive to Georgia. Makes it more fun! We stayed overnight in Kentucky and then on to Conyers by 2 pm Monday afternoon. This visit saw us staying in the Retreat house and eating in the dining room. Doug's brother Rick and Judy arrived Tuesday afternoon. Tuesday morning Dee got a golf car and we drove through the woods collecting things to make an arrangement for the sanctuary and his Wed. final vows ceremony of monk becoming. We found lots of things and put together a wonderful "southern" flower arrangement which sat on the floor next to the altar. Dee's profession cermony began Wed. around 10 and was a beautiful service which now designates him as a cistersion trapist monk with the rule of Benedict and with the accompanying name of Bro. Cassion. We still call him Dee from time to time. He had that name for 62 years. Woo...celebration followed with about 120 friends all having a wonderful lunch together. Family and a few friends went out for supper Wed. evening. We pulled out of the monestary Thursday afternoon stopping in Tenn. for the night. Fri. morning we learned that bad storms were expected to hit southern Indiana but we felt that we would be past the storm area on our trip north. Horrible storms and many tornadoes did happen and we were about 2 hrs. ahead of them driving most of the way in hard rain. Good to be home with many, many lasting memories of folks who love and care for each other.

Sat. morning once again it was back in the car with a trip to Anderson Indiana attending a wonderful bell ringing workshop with two other groups lasting the entire day. Back home by 8:30...bed time and then the usual arrival at church by 7 AM today preparing hospitality time with the knowledge that this would be the first Sunday for our new minister Darren Cushman-Wood. It was a big celebration once again with good church, good music and with good friends. And...the afternoon has been spend SLEEPING, watching a little basketball with the big game between Purdue and I U coming at six and also a little thinking about quilts.

The last patch for the quilt has been finished and the need to buy 4 yards of white cotton fabric is waiting to assemble the quilt patches together with more patches. Crazy...to make a quilt...buy fabric...cut it appart...assemble it together and then do the rest of the stuff that needs to be done. I remembered that the fabric store is stuffed with people on Sundays so that fabric buying will not happen today. I hate those long lines. Maybe sometime this week at some point I'll head on out.

The two wonderful little Indiana grandsons sang a song in spanish in church this morning. There are about 6 maybe 7 in the group. 5 year old Andrew stood tall with perfect words. Almost 3 Noah was a little hesitant but did well. The choir had wonderful anthems. It was good church.

And prayers are needed for good friend Ellen Daniels-Howell who is in chemo therapy and hospitalized with an e-coli bacterial infection which has shone it's ugly self because of her inability to fight off that bug that usually is found in all of us. Chemo and a compromized imune system allows that bug to show it's ugly self. It's a long, long treatment time, 8 weeks with 4 huge treatments are finished and now comes 8 more weeks with weekly treatments after which there will be surgery and then radiation. What a bummer of a disease. She is the third friend at church who has cancer and is experiencing a heavy cancer treatment series...Carolyn with lung cancer and Janet with kidney cancer. Bummer, bummer.

Off to another week of doing with nothing much scheduled. Woo, woo. I'm sure that won't remain such.