Wooo back again.

Getting ready for the UPs.  Food is bought.  Camp kitchen packed...80% of the clothes are in the suitcase. Books are ready.  Not to much more to do but wait!  Been walking at the Y.  Good thing to do after eating bread.  It's a horrible thing for my body to have with being diabetic.  Grrrrr.  So off to the Y.  It was FULL tonight.  Mornings are so much better.  All the jocks are there in the evening...Female and Male!  So I just walk walk with my ear buds.  Flowers and veg. are doing great.  Water coming at the right time.  I'm sure while we are gone the tomatoes will be here...cantalope..black berries and squash for sure. We've had lettuce and kale.   Tomorrow it's lunch with Doris, Rosie and Kathy.  Then a haircut!  Wed. and Thurs is full as well so it's good that I'm ready for vac.  Friday we'll pack the van and Andrew and Noah will be here for the day.  We're out of here Sat.  Yahoo.

Back for now but who knows how long.

Summer has come to Carmel.  Nice and warm today and love having the windows open and NO airconditioning.  Just lots of fans and one is suppose to slow down at some point in the year!  Up to 90 today so they way.  Not to hot.   The birds are singing in my room...the real birds for that matter.  I'm checking the gardens ever morning and evening.  Such fun.  Flowers are beautiful with the right around of rain.  Not watering much at all.  But the veg. garden.  Fighting with the deer again and hopefully have everything blocked off by now.  That deer loves bean plants, tomato plants and flower buds.  Oops...forgot the tops of the sunflowers as well.  That seems to take care of the sunflowers for sure.  So...just trying to keep ahead of the huge critter. Japanese Beatles  are prolific.   Raccoons have climbed the hummingbird pole so those feeders come in every night.  And we live in the city of Carmel!  Well, sort of country but not the country that Jared has.  Busy thinking about camping.  Hard to wait and looking forward to the boring stretch of 35 miles outside of Crystal Falls.  Due north with lots of trees and nothing else.  Due north.   Looking forward to!!!  Crazy.  Way to much to think about here.  Had a hard weekend and Monday with another funeral for another dear choir friend.  It's an other  of many who have died of cancer in the choir.  Marilyn worked at Butler in the PE department, a tiny little friend who ran marathons.  Such a sweetheart and I think 56 years of age.  She ran her final race.  Election stuff has kept me well entertained this summer.  How crazy can it get?  Fun, fun.  The rest of the week looks a bit tame.  Woo, woo.  Soup kitchen still on Thursday and Andrew and Noah come to play with me on Fri.  Such fun.  So...now you know maybe something you didn't know.  Maybe not.