Tues. eve.

Monday...what a slow day.  Loved every minute of it.  The have a heart trap was set Sun. eve. and the ? took the bacon right out through the wire sides and left it in the yard.  Picky eater to say the least.  So...the trap was set again with a hot dog hanging from the top of the cage.  Smart trap setter and sure enough...Mon. morning...a dirty raccoon.  So...back across the river to Fishers park.  And...the raccoon is in a better place.  That's my opinion...not sure about Fishers.  The town is being reanimaled with friends from Carmel.  We should be thanked!  The raccoon dug the grass out from under the cage...bummer so...washed the cage and now another hot dog is hanging for who ever needs a meal and the trap is sitting on the driveway.  Very interesting what goes on in the dark!
Got the church ready for Pentecost with two really good workers...Phil and Ray.  They have helped me many times and this time...gave the instructions...got some other work ready for them in the sanctuary and they just carried right on!  Love those guys.  Tomorrow morning I'm going back to take apart flower arrangements getting the flowers back into containers until we need them again.  Love working half days.  

Sunday...

Easy day today.  We helped with Hospitality time.  It's fun to see the church folks as well as the neighborhood people in the community room.  Church was really empty today...It's Indy 500 time.  We could have easily had one service.  Got my Sunday afternoon naps in...dug in the garden visiting with all the plants.  This week should be in the 70's so hopefully I'll see a bit of a change in size.  Friday Noah and I planted tomatoes.  I had Noah dig flowers and move them to other places.  He's my big gardening buddy.  Not much planned for tomorrow.  Tues it's off to church to put away Easter decorations and get out the Pentecost Red.  Not doing as much this year but there should be enough.  Yes...I'm all better but I must admit that the energy level seems to be a bit less than in the past.  So...might do two day instead of trying for a one day decorating.  Still doing a bit of coughing but that is so much better.  So...that's about it.

I'm ALL better.

Plant exchange was yesterday and I made a huge haul.  So excited...And this morning...my body was back to it's old self.  I knew that when I felt like working in the garden and did I work.  All the plants from yesterday and a bunch of other things are in the dirt.  My little herb garden is looking sweet with some new soil added.  Bags and bags of good stuff.  And...it was a two Aleve time tonight.  Woo...all that hoeing is now showing it's ugly head in my sore muscles.  But...Heck...I'm really not complaining...just stating facts.  So...tomorrow...I'm moving some Hostas.  All of this rain this spring has all of the plants either dead or looking overweight.  I think the dead have been added to the compost pile and now I"m looking at all the overweight plants that are covering up all the little plants.  Woo...what a great problem to have.  Love, love being outside.  Woo...can't get enough but I'm giving it a good try.

On the mend.

Back to the doc and medicine for the cough.  So...that's calmed down and there seems to be a bit of ambition from time to time.  That's good.  Planted a few more things and then back to the time out chair.  It's cool with a bit of rain this morning.  Noah and I planted the two peanut plants.   Added a bunch of soil fixer to the hole.  We don't have southern sand soil for sure.  A few other things now are planted with a few more to do.  All the rain that came down a few weeks ago has given the perennials permission to outdo themselves.  It's fuller everywhere so not so much room for annuals.  I want some pepper and tomato plants and the herb garden needs a bit of tending but it really looks great so far.  Love spring.  Sunday is our plant day at church.  I have 7 plants to trade for something.  Yahoo.

Good grief.

I think I'm better and then I'm not.  I think I live in a body that's to old.  I need one that's at least has 20 less years.  I did plant a caster bean today but that's about it.  I'm trying to do things that my brain tells me..it's about time.  And then it's back on the chair and a nap.  Woo...took one this afternoon and then woke up to a whole new Trump thing. Way to many things happening.  Pooped in Carmel...back on the chair.  One might think I'm being punished...you know...time out.  Just think away.  Tomorrow is 10 days.

Keep on Praying, Penny!

This is getting old really fast.  I need more prayers for patience!  Last night was a 2 am morning...and then on the chair watching TV. My throat was the worst it's ever been.  If I have another bad night...the doc will be called in 9 days from the start instead of 10 that he suggested.  I can do without antibiotics but it sure would be nice to have a little release from all this stuff.  My friend Alice had the same thing...Took her 3 weeks and 3 antibiotic rounds.  I think the three weeks was the solution...Not the antibiotics...Getting old makes it worse.  BUMMER!  Sunny day out and at this point...I probably should not say this but ...who cares.  Lots of plants waiting to go in the ground.  I did find out that I have one Red Sage plant coming up that I started 3 weeks ago.  Woo...NOW that's good news.  I planted 20 seeds in pots...Yup...the directions said...you need patience.

Easy...Yes

The rest of the week has been interesting...Yup...real interesting.  That cough...bronchitis.  That's what the doc told me today.  And...there is nothing to do about it...Just let it go away.  Well, it certainly is slowing me down.  And...the energy is gone big time.  Weather has been nicer but no energy to get stuff in the ground.  Sometimes things just do not go together right like a puzzle.  So...me..the biggest puzzle piece is missing right now.  My throat is so sore but I think it's the coughing that has allowed that to happen.  I have cough med. with codeine so hope that calms that part down.  Back to my chair.

Didn't last long..

That is the sunny day...Bummer.  Monday was pretty good.  So tired from all the going on with the Sunday event...but somehow being outside with a little rake working up the dirt was just what the doctor ordered.  Lots of fun looking at everything and wondering when the SEEDS are going to germinate.  Hard to wait.  The lower level finally got dried out in the house and Sears came to get the fans.   Just another flood...The smell is terrible.  But it's gone now.  And today we bought 12 bags of plain old dirt and changed the slop of the ground around the chimney.  That along with the new guttering might just do the trick.  But...this morning more rain and I was in a tizzy inside my brain .but the lower lever stayed dry.  Surprise, surprise.  I hate those 3 hour down pours.  Makes me nervous.  Spent a little time at church today putting away stuff that we used in the Sunday worship.  Banners...banners...fake grapes and bread and more but now it's time to sit a bit.  I've developed a huge chest cough since Sunday...Sucking cough drops is my treatment.  I hope this doesn't last very long.  Maybe I burned the candle a bit short this weekend.  Herb meeting tonight...Doug has a dinner to go to.  Tomorrow we both have checkups with the hearing doctor.  The rest of the week is easy.  So...it's carry on.

The sun is shinning...Oh...happy days.

Or something like that.  Today was a huge work day at church.  Tomorrow is our  Arts in Worship Festival.  Humm...my idea to do this so guess who does the work.  You got it.  So today I spent the day at church working on three presentations for tomorrow.  We are having an art exhibit in the parlor so lots of new art on the wall done by Wendell Lowe...Super stuff...A Parkinson's artist.  Hard to describe but good pictures.  We hung 12 pictures on the parlor walls..6 easels...and more smaller pictures.  Such good stuff.  And now there are 7 banners hanging done by Doris Douglas along with a stole and descriptions of everything.  This will be in place for the entire week.  Moved a lot of furniture and the room looks GREAT.  Fun, fun.  And...then made 12 doz cookies for the lunch tomorrow.  Beth Galloway is doing that for us.  And then went through what I'm talking about.  That would be Doris and her banners with about 6 banner stories and more.  Hope I'm not to long. That happens in the chapel in the afternoon along with a talk on liturgical dance and painting of an Icon of Jesus that now hangs in the chapel.  That was done by another North member.  Worship will have liturgical dance, scripture dramatization, special processional for the children bringing in grapes and bread...communion...Theirs is really fake.  Music, music and once again a great sermon on the talents.  Using as many children as want to participate in the communion processional.  It will be a fun day if only 80% goes well.  There is a huge vase of wheat and a big basket of real grapes for the altar area ready to go.  No flowers.  I'm tired.  It's a good tired.  Excitement is in the air.  The afternoon will close with a litany of remembrance written by our minister remembering Doris.

The sun is shinning.

Rain, rain go away.

It's still raining and should continue through at least tomorrow night.  Floods.  Lots of plants in the garage.  Safest place for them at this point.  Well...the latest in the pest story...Suet comes in the garage.  Raccoon goes down the long hook and breaks off the branch that the empty for the night feeder was hanging from.  Soggy. Wet.  I need to get that trap.  Suet feeder is in the garage and the raccoon continues to slide down the pole.  Worked soup kitchen today.  Smaller crowd since some of these people get a small check at the beginning of the month.  And it was a cold wet rainy day ALL day.  Doug went to choir practice tonight.  I'm taking the first choir break in 50 years.  I never sing summer choir.  So...late Aug. I'll be back at it.  One really drunk guy but I kept him occupied so he did not cause much of a rucks.  Just a little one.  He had a mother's day card to send to his mother so he told me what to write for him.  I included that he was eating at the soup kitchen.  I think what every mother would want to hear.  I'm sure she knows about all of his problems.  Mothers usually do.
Tomorrow the grandsons come.  I have the stuff to make chocolate chip cookies.  Andrew wanted to do that last week.  We'll see about tomorrow.  Might be sweet rolls or who knows what.

pest update.

Got hit again...this animal is to smart for me.  And I think he's a huge one.  This time...must have slid down the pole to the suet...then fell into a nest of ferns smashing them as well as the hosta a couple of days ago.  Next thing...bring in the suet feeder...borrow a have a heart trap...Big trap and then take him across the river.  Should paint his tail red to see if he comes back. Grr.  It's cold and windy and yes...rain, rain again...living in a swamp!  Went to the plant sale at the Blind School.  Got a few things but to cold to plant them...so they are in the garage.  Worked yesterday evening and this morning on stuff that needs completion for the weekend of Worship and the Arts.  It should be lots of fun.  Such good people are working with me and we had to eliminate some things.  Next year perhaps.  I can't believe I said that.