Sunday afternoon

Football, nap, after church.  Fall must be here.  Cleaning up the gardens have started.  So...it's clip and dig and then clip.  Two more huge garbage bins are ready to move to the street.  Bells start this wed. evening and that's about all that is added to the schedule.  Noah will be here Tues. again.  This week should be less full of places to be.  I finished another Xmas wreath last week and I think there is one more very simple one to do.  Met with the knee doc last week and surgery is a go but I think I will wait till the last of January.  Life should be a little more simple at that point.  Holidays are over and my soup kitchen cook will be back from Florida at the end of January.  Great music at church today and tonight is one of those old fashioned hymnsings in the chapel.  They have been fun to attend.   

Sat. evening

Life is good.  Continuing to make scones...Yum, Yum.  There are so many things one can put in a scone that it is just a picnic thinking of something new.  I've also had a blast cooking from an old New England cookbook that I bought at Copper Harbor for 2 bucks.  Just good old...carrots, beets, beans, maple syrup stuff.   Oops...forgot onions.  Basic food found in early New England.  No mushrooms, and all that specialty stuff. I'm continuing on the war on ivy.  Another container ready for the garbage.  Today neighbor Judy and I  went to Tipton to a friend who raises plants to sell to retail nurseries.  She offers friends wholesale prices twice a year.  I have some beautiful things to start to plant in the front bed but need to get the soil ready.  I think I'm finished with the ivy war but will continue if the ivy doesn't stay in it's place!!!  Fun, fun.  Noah continues to visit on Tuesdays.  We just have the best time.  He loves to dig and there are many places now that he just does that.  This spring we had a great hail storm which did a lot of damage.  The car is fixed and now it's time for a new roof and chimney work.  I'll be happy when this is all finished.  Insurance folks just really did a long drag on coming through.  Church continues to keep me busy, busy.  I'm working on Christmas stuff and have a lot finished but more to do.  That's fun time just being in the groove and away from everything else.  Two more huge wreaths to go for sure and a few small things.  Early work is the secret.