Better.

Slow and easy gets the job done.  No voice last Sun.  Today...finance drive today and I sang a whole bunch.  Woo...surprise.  Yesterday singing not so good.  Today...something came out!  So...slowly getting on the good side of living.  I've been doing a little sewing.  Church friends Sarah Ellen and Joe Mamlin are back in Indy from Kenya.  Joe announced his retirement from the Ampath HIV Aids project...Humm...I think he's 85...guess it's time.  Soooooo....they will be moving back to the states in March.  Woo...never thought that would happen.  I am so excited to have Sarah Ellen around although the Kenya folks will miss them terribly.   They have lived in Kenya for almost 19 years.  So...that's about it.  Outside getting colder and I could do a little more outside cleaning up.  But then again....maybe not. 

Cough.

I have a terrible cough.  Woke up at 3:30 this morning.  No more sleep in bed that is.  This is getting old and seems to happen every fall now.  This started last Friday.  My immunization from teaching sick kids is GONE!  What a bummer.  Sugarless cough drops are the favored meds but they don't work very well.  So...I'm sort of on the slow side at times.  This came from DOUG!!!   Yesterday Ray and Patty and I worked on Advent/Christmas wreaths for church.  Done!!! They are beautiful.  Patty has the vision.  It seems if those are out of the way I'm a little more relaxed about church decorating.  Put up dates...week after Georgia.  Woo...4 Sun. in Advent, the first Sunday a full week after Thanksgiving...that's a blessing for me.  So now...for the rest of the stuff to decide on.  An interesting problem today...The word Brown 10:30 is on the calendar and I don't have a clue what that could be...In my handwriting.  I thought dentist but that appointment is in the correct place for Nov.  Crazy how I get in these fixes.  Not much on the calendar and I am thankful for that...I can cough to myself and wonder about the 10:30 event I can't remember.   Where am I suppose to be at 10:30.  I won't be there.  Thurs. Mamlins will be back in the states for 5 weeks. 

Sat. again.

Sat. comes around way to quickly.  But it's here.  Today is EXTREMELY windy.  Woo...sort of scary.  Leaves and sticks are everywhere. It was better to stay in the house for this day.  We need to get the patio umbrella in the garage.  That's about the last job for the fall.  I planted bulbs yesterday.  Love to have something new to look for in the spring.  I've been sewing again.  I made two denim bags for Thomas Schilling.  They are plain, plain.  His choice.  I put denim pant pockets in the inside.  No unusual trim...No colored thread...Just plain.  Kids were here yesterday...Nothing much new has happened...Oh, yes...bought a new scissors...Money, money!!!.  Can't find my two best ones that I received as gifts so the last one I bought was probably 20 years ago.  But I do with I could find the lost ones.  Where could they be!.  I have a huge sewing project after Thanksgiving...So...I'm getting ready.  It's sewing for the Monks.  I'm not quite sure how much but it has been said to be big.  Church tomorrow. 

More stuff.

Well, the rest of the week was interesting.  Bread and Bowl on Thurs.  Kids on Fri.  The big thing Fri was emptying the outdoor fish pond.  Woo...those grandsons really got in to it and it was DIRTY.  And we had lots of guppies and 2 nice gold fish in a tank in the kitchen.  But...sad to say...they all went to fish heaven.  They probably had way to much excitement in their lives getting caught.  What a hoot.  Now the sad part is telling Noah.  Sat. I participated in a craft fair at church sponsored by the ladies of the church.  But...not much activity during the sale although I did sell a few things.  I sold three adult bibs for nursing home folks.  In December I'm in an other sale at the Forum...a retirement home so today I made a couple of ladies bibs and got just a bit of Christmas fabric out to work on this week.  And...there is NOTHING on the calendar.  Woo. woo.  So...the days are mine to do with what I want and when I want.  Funny how excited I get when that happens. 

Wed.

Body of an 80 year old does not like to do a whole morning of garden work.  Woo...Oh, to be 60!  Yesterday I filled 3 blue garbage cans with garden throw out stuff.  The garden is beginning to look like it's GETTING ready for Winter.  Not quite done yet but looking better than Monday.  I love my summer garden.  Just want to keep up with the uck fall stuff as well. I think there have been at least 2 and sometimes 3 cans at the street for at least the last 4 weeks.  Maybe longer.   Sweeper parts came yesterday and I was really happy to wheel my OLD HOOVER to the recycling can.  Lots of plastic in that machine.  Bissell proved to suck up a bunch of stuff.  Grocery shopping today.  Tomorrow should be cooler.  Looking forward to that...And pray for the hurricane area of our country. 

Difficult

I'm really struggling with the Rep. party now.  Usually vote a split ticket but thinking other wise.  Where is the wrong with a woman telling the truth and a beer drinking kid out of control resulting in an adult out of control who has no space for any opinion but his own.  Is that a new definition of the Republican party?  This week's calendar is pretty clear.  I will be getting ready for a Christmas Sale at church on Sat.  It's honey, pottery, slippers, bibs and more.  So...hope to keep busy with good thoughts. 

Busy, busy. Kimmy Luck.

Yesterday, once again..off to church at 7 with lots of pastries.  Fixed plates, visited with folks and then on to choir practice and second service church.  After that it was time to prepare for another Taize service at 5 .  So...candles, candles and more.  That took about an hr. so off to home at 1, listening to the Colts.  They were good, then they were very bad then they were very, very good and then they lost the game.  I went to a friends home to get some really, really unusual dried flowers that we will use in wreaths at Advent/Christmas time.  Wooo...they are really beautiful.  Then went to the last 15  minutes of Taize.  It was amazingly stunning with lots of music...silence...scripture and the sanctuary was loaded with candles.  Never so so many in one place. So...helped to clean up some and today back to church to finish and put out some new things and also got ready for World Wide Communion Sunday.  Woo..busy, busy...And now the best thing yet.  Left to go to church passing a neighbor who had put a Bissell sweeper at the road with a free sign but also noted that the sweeper needed a belt and new brush.  So ordered that on line for 30 dollars and I have a great Bissell sweeper.  I had some really good Kimmy luck today.  Doug will be so happy when he hears the sound.  He usually leaves the house when I'm using my Hoover that Eric gave me at least 25 or more years ago.  Doesn't bother me but Woo...Doug hates that sweeper.  Went to S and S for supper meeting our friends Jay and Audrey there.  That happens about once every 6 months.  Football tonight.  And the government just rolls along.