Still Wed. and hotter than you know what

Just checked pictures on a blog in copper harbor.  It's RAINING there.  Woo...Woo...Things have gotten messed up a bit with needing to get SEM's trunks to Kenya but I think we have it figured out.  They will be moved tonight and early tomorrow moring to Wishard.  So...truck gets camping gear packed tomorrow instead of tonight.  It's HOT.  Little kids are having a blast.  They are easy for sure. 

Now it's Wed.

Heat has returned...102 today.  And Doug now tells me that we're leaving for Michigan on Thursday afternoon after I get home from Soup Kitchen stuff. .  He is sick of the heat.  So...we're leaving.  Most things are collected in the garage at this point.  It's interesting that we used to do the trip in one long 14 hr. day on the road.  Now we stay in a motel for two nights one at Madison and one in Copper Harbor setting up the tent Saturday.  JB will bet there also on Sat.  Today Noah and Andrew are spending the day here.  I hope I can think of enough cool things to do with them.  I'll finish all the stuff that needs finishing.  Pack the truck tonight...Soup kitchen in the morning and then on the road asap. 

It's Monday

Monday before the Friday we leave for Michigan.  Packed the suitcase already.  The weather has been better.  Well, maybe I'm getting use to it.  Yesterday was 95 and the guys from church including Eric played two and some folks played three softball games at Riverside Park in a one Sun. church league.  The fans sat in the shade although there were lots of clouds around.  The shade included lots of dusty dirt with lawn chairs and lots of talk.  Watering again this morning and clipping dead flower heads.  We set up a tiko climber in the backyard after a good scrubbing and the little guys will have more to play on when they visit.  Last Friday we had a blast with them and they are coming back on Wed. for more fun.  I have two funny Indy grandsons for sure always thinking of things to do.  So...on to looking at the camp kitchen...off to the grocery for a few things like dishsoap and microwave popcorn and I can check off one more thing finished and on the way to Michigan. 

Cooler...no kidding

It's cooler...Big rain, at least an inch late yesterday afternoon with lots of lightening and thunder.  What a beautiful sound.  And...this morning it's cloudy and cooler...Woo, woo.  Started to find camping stuff, airmattress, sleeping bags, and more.  Rather do it slowly than quickly but much easier to do when cooler for sure.  I've had many hot summer days in the past collecting stuff.  Checking on battery needs, medicine perscriptions with a few groceries but not many for sure.  I think all the church backup stuff is done and if I forgot something...tough cookies.  I can claim getting old.  Cleaning the sewing room.  I need to fold one of my sewing tables to take along with us.  It becomes the kitchen table under the trees.  More to do. 

Big weather change

It's in the low 90's now...Woo...Woo.  And we had about 5 minutes of rain on two days running.  And...Copper Harbor's high is low 70's.  Now that's something to look forward to.  And...thinking Michigan for a lot of reasons.  Bought a new pair of crocks...Mine must be 5 years old at least and wearing thin on the bottom.  I'm ready to go...not really but my mind is ready.  Haven't watered for the last two days.  That's wonderful news to write about. 

Today was Soup Kitchen Day and it was a fairly good day.  That's something to celebrate.  A new North lady Sandra walked in to work and she is a gem.  She's planning to come back as well and lives just north of the church.  We need good workers and she works.  Some crews have ladies that come to talk to each other which can be a good thing but if that's all they are there for...Go HOME is what I would say.   GEtting all my ducks in a row to fill all my church jobs while I'm gone.  It's like writing lesson plans while working at school.  Nothing on the calendar tomorrow.  Woo...that's a first in a long time.  Sat. is clear as well.  We should take a mini trip. 

This is getting old!!!

Yup...the heat continues and the not rain season is well underway.  So...what's old that I'm doing?  Watering morning and night.  The garden looks relatively good but I'm needing another outlet.  Woo...
So...staying cool is a priority.  Fans and air condition Y and library and church do it reasonably well. 

Sewing is waiting for an order of silk floss to arrive.  Hope that happens soon.  Sitting in the sewing room just isn't the same when my hand doesn't hold a needle.  Doing a lot of reading and some TV watching and yesterday I watched Andrew and Noah at their swimming lessons.  Woo...those two little guys are learning to LOVE the water.  So good to see water safety in their lives. 

Yesterday I had lunch with my three teacher friends who taught first grade together about 25 years ago at least.  It's always an interesting lunch to say the least.  Andrew and Noah spent a bit of the afternoon with us while Kat went for a job interview.  Hope, hope, hope it works for her. 

In less than two weeks we will be camping.  Yahoo...I'm pretending to feel the cool breeze of Superior with my toes in the sand at Great Sand Bay.  New tent was put up..and down.  Pancake mix is bought and waiting for breakfast and I'm thinking just a bit of other things.  We've done this for so many years that getting ready just doesn't bother me to much.  And...it's easy to purchase food stuff right in Copper Harbor.  Such a difference when I need to think about just myself.  Packing the microwave, electric water pot, electric skillet and the camp kitchen...That's all it takes.  Well...some clothes, blow up airmattress and sleeping bag.  Woo...easy, easy. 

So...it's time to move the sprinkler. 

Heat continues

Learning to live with it.  Library gets a visit...Y gets a visit...church gets a visit and the rest of the day just goes along. 

I'm starting to create some communion paraments.  New preacher wants them...we haven't used any for a long time and the ones I found at church are in horrible condition ready to pitch.  So learning something new with what to make and how they should be used.  The Episcopalians are in town for their general conference and I think I'll make a visit.  So...it's another something to learn.  Now we can buy them but the cost is really impressively huge.  So...fingers are working at this point.  The first item is a linen cover for the alter.  One is finished...need more for sure.  Who is going to take care of all this stuff.  It's not going to be on my plate. 

Beginning to think vacation.  Pancake mix is bought.  What else...well, need to figure out how to set up the tent.  That will happen when it cools down.  So...not soon for sure.  On to another hot Sat.  Sunday might be cooler by comparison.  Just a chance. 

Writing mode

For some reason my brain is in a writing mode.  Maybe it's to hot! 

Today has been just the best.  It started with breakfast on the patio, reading the paper and drinking coffee with Doug and eating my usual peanutbutter and jelly on rye toast.  Then off to the garden areas to check out the evidence of deer.  We have a mommy with twin babies that is roaming the neighborhood.  And...flowers on the hostas are gone.  I really don't care, happy to have deer eating them.  I have cut a bundle of them off already.  Then on to filling a 55 gal trash bin with cooked hostas among other things, that at one time were in the shade and now the sun.  They needed to go being that they were all burned up.  Started the sprinkler and then to the patio with another cup of coffee and time to watch the birds.  There are so many.  Doug took pictures of an almost gone cake of suet that the woodpeckers have turned into interesting textures.  Made a great picture or two or more.  Doug never takes one.  After that into the house and I did a bunch of free motion quilting on a wall hanging of 9 cars and trucks that I want to sent to Kenya at some point.  Now there are two hangings finished for the orphanage that has Sarah Ellen's interests at heart.  After that was finished, I was off  to church to do an inventory and then on to MCFarlings to get 4 cases of food that we are needing for Soup Kitchen.  Talked to some good friends from Columbus, Ohio at church...Home again and did a bit more free motion sewing, attached the binding and then made supper...Yum, yum...blue berry pancakes and watermelon.  Pancakes are getting me ready for Mich. where we have the same almost every morning with other family members.  Now it's icetea time and MSNBC news programs.  Interesting to hear the spin on what's going on.  Now isn't that a good day?  I think so. 

Sunday

Temp is not bad.  Still in the 90's but NOT 100.  That temp. makes my skin feel like it's burning.  And a cool or cooler breeze is coming through.  Good church today.  Watering the beds this afternoon as well as watering neighbor Judy's many pots while she is in Colorado for the week.  Not much other stuff planned other than finish some stuff I started months ago.  No rush.  Not a bad idea.