TV...

Way to much tv watching this week.  So depressing.  So...broke out the sewing machine this week.  Should have done that sooner.  We are having an Umoja dinner...money maker coming in Nov.  The money provides tuition for high school Kenya student.  So...made 4 African animal baby bibs...2 pillows and an African wall hanging.  Such fun on my Doris sewing machine.  It's a gem and makes me look really, really good.  Cooler weather...Wool blanket on the bed but it could be in the low 80's next week.  Continue to clean up flowerbeds filling 2 or 3 garbage bins each week with stuff.  Still have a few zinnia's for the butterflies but I think the monarchs might be gone.  I've been saving flower seeds and today got those into envelops...Now...I need to remember where I store those for the winter.  Come on spring...I'm ready.  Church tomorrow. 

Time flies.

I wish I knew where it went.  I'd do a gotcha.  Not much going on.  We did have a very long choir retreat Sat.  Sang and sang from 9 to 2:30.  LOts of music.  Watch a little football yesterday.  Yeah for New England.  They LOST!!!!  Poor Brady.  No one wants to play with him.  Today is cloudy.  No sun around and just a little rain.  Hoping for more rain tomorrow.  Great napping weather and soup for Supper.  Tried to jazz up a can of soup.  Bum experience.  Need to make my own soon.  Football tonight in America. 

Tues afternoon.

Where is fall.  If you know...let me know.  Still 90 degrees this afternoon so it's another time to sleep.  Went to the Y then to church to work for a while on Visual things and checked Tues. B and B and then to JoAnn's to get some fleece for the first of at least 3 Xmas gift things.  Maybe 5 come to think of it.  Grandsons...you know.  Tomorrow lunch with my old teacher friends.  Come to think of it.   I'm the oldest of us 4.  Taught together first grade a long time ago.  Great friends.  That's it for the day.  Fans are running.  I'm sewing. 

Saturday.

Same old same old.  Playing in the dirt.  Another day of moving a few plants to new places.  That was the morning's work and then this afternoon...Watched a lot of TV with my eyes shut.  Woo...sleepy afternoon for sure.  I dug out hostas which were planted at least 35 years ago.  Woo...that's a long time ago.  So...ready for a new look.  Did a bit of watering as well.  That's about it for the day.  Slowing down one might say.  Tomorrow church...and I'll be sleeping in the afternoon.  Busy, busy Sunday morning. 

9/!!

Some memories don't go away.  Like where I was when this all happened...Church Youth Rm. watching TV with the church staff not wanting to think that what I was seeing was true.  Not such a hot memory.  So...today I didn't watch much TV.  Played outside which was just so much fun.  That is playing in the dirt.  Continue to move sun plants into the new spaces.  Planted 9 Alium bulbs...swamp milkweed and more.  I think the spaces are well served with plants from other places in the garden and there will be space for annuals.  Last evening went to a wonderful Monarch talk at a Master Gardener meeting with neighbor Judy.  It was just the best with speaker Kylee Baumle from Ohio.  Her book is on Amazon   The Monarch: Survival of a Species.  It's the best that I have found and follows her lecture to the letter.  So my interest continues.  This afternoon I harvested a slew of seeds to plant next summer.  Sad to think that will not happen for a few months.  And once again...filled a garbage can with stuff that needs to go from the flower beds.  Starting the fall clean up.  Tomatoes continue although there was a deer that visited the garden last night.  Some stuff has been smashed.  There is no place for a deer in my garden.    But...guess they were here before us.  It's been a great play day.  New washer and dryer are working well after arriving today.  Our 3rd set in 51 years.  We unpluged the sink this afternoon and Doug put our new licence plate on the car and got his monthly iron shot.   Lots to do.  Tomorrow I'm meeting with teacher friends for lunch.  We taught 1st grade together about 35 years ago.  Great fun memories when we were younger.  Now that's not the case.  We're older.  NOT OLD!!!! 

Rain

Wonderful rain today and tonight the heat has been turned off.  More rain tomorrow...Maybe!  Working outside continues.  Moved more plants yesterday and maybe a few more tomorrow if the weather permits.  Great choir practice tonight which started with a great meal together.  Back in the swing of Thurs. eve. rehearsals.  Tomorrow the kids come which always makes an interesting day. 

Summer is not over.

The calendar says Sept. but it must be Aug.  Hot. Hot.  Still working in the garden and Monday I moved a lot of what was shade and now sun to the north side of the house in shade.  Which meant...GET RID OF MORE IVY !.  This is getting old.  But I cut ferns...dug ferns and moved hostas and more.  I was totally bushed and today I just sat a whole bunch.  And...the hot weather continues.  The humidity must be 110 %.  In fact...We ate supper on the patio and less that 40 feet in the neighbors yard it was raining a ton and we continued to eat on the patio where it was hot and dry.  Funny how that works.  So...the north side of the house is finished and full of plants.  And I continue to think and plan what needs to be moved into the sun garden part of the back yard.  Tomorrow the choir is singing at a memorial service for Sophia...the mother of one of our choir members.  Thurs.  Bread and Bowl and life goes on.