Friday evening.

Great week of good weather...Well mostly.  Even the rain is a good thing.  Plants are growing and such fun getting surprises where they pop up.  Got rid of more ivy.  Grrrrr.  That's a good thing.  Starting to visit garden shops.  What fun.  Went to Southern Indiana with three other good friends Wed.  Great destination of garden shop things...super good restaurant and plants a plenty.  Car came home full although the three did more damage than I did.  Kids came today.  More chocolate chip cookies.  Did some digging with Noah.  Finished the stole yesterday for Ronny Bell.  That was fun and it came together so easily.  He'll get it in June.  Soon will start to work on a white one for him.  That's a communion, wedding and funeral stole.  Preachers need white.  Knee continues to make it's self known although it might be a bit better.  Still using ice packs.  Got to love them.

Time flies!!!!

Holy Thursday ...Done...Good Friday...Done...Easter preparation...Done...Easter...OVER!  And today...fun in the dirt.  Beautiful weather and I was outside ALL day.  Love it.  Did some edging.  Moved some plants...Dug out a bunch of Black Eyed Susan's.  Way to many and spreading everywhere.  More stuff is up in the garden.  Started to get the pond going...Meaning digging out the hole again.  Birds are singing.  Mommy Blue Bird is interesting to say the least.  Woo...she can do smack downs really well.


Sunday was a great day.  Good music...Good preaching...Good friends...Beautiful flowers...and Great Pecan rolls.  Then a visit with good friend Rosie and her extended family...and then with Kat and Eric and family.   Tomorrow is a scheduled Doc appointment and an Umoja Planning Thanksgiving meeting.  Onward and Forward.

Knee continues to get better.  Worked well although I did do 2 icings.  Love those frozen bags.  And no stairs to speak of.

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Black eyes.

Of course I have black eyes...I was born with them...but this one is a bit different.  Still black but no pain...no nothing.  I should do eye shadow on the right one.  They would match.  Monday back to church to put away Palm Sun.  It was a great Sunday church morning but the real live donkey decided to stay home.  Guess there was to much rain.  So...Palm Sun is back in the visual arts box...closet.
Holy Thurs.  Good Fri. is ready to go visually.  Then Sat...it's the big do morning.  Buying flowers for the altar Thurs.  Weather is warming up...Out in the gardens this morning scraping off weeds.  Planted radishes yesterday.  Peas are up.  Lettuce is doing well and Parsley is everywhere.  That's great.  Worked on fixing sand candles today.  A bit of a mess but all 4 now are usable.  Another something to use at church.  Now the priority is getting my knee to work again.  It took a huge hit in the fall and still have trouble with steps but thankful I can walk without a cane.  Icing is great.  I'll get there

Squirrel news

Yup...the squirrel succeeded once again.  That was after falling off the dome to the feeder twice.  What a hoot.  So moved the feeder to a new place.  So far...so good.  Flower beds are looking fabulous.  Such fun since I forgot where I planted things last fall.  Places are filling up.  A little more sewing repairs for another friend.  The sewing machine just keeps on giving.  Worked at church yesterday for a long time getting ready for Palm Sunday.  Woo...the place looks spiffy.  Ray, Allen and Leigh were part of the work crew.  Took a very impressive and hard fall at church.  That cement floor is very hard!!!  So today...one impressive black eye!  First in my lifetime! and a knee that wants to work in circles.  Looks like I forgot the eye shadow on the right eye to match the left . That's a very interesting look  to say the least.  So..it's ice time today.  The brain needs to remember to pick up feet!  Dah...Important in walking.  Panera tonight...Church tomorrow.  Then on to Holy Week.  That's more work but slow and easy gets the job done.  I promise myself to remember that.  Ladders?  Not so sure.

Tues...

Another fun day.  Sewed all morning.  Fixed the second choir robe for choir friend...then on to a 12 ft. runner for the communion table at church.  It's amazing how many things our minister keeps me busy with.  His brain just keeps going.  Used material we had at church so no additional money this time.  Thank goodness I have a fund to use.  Then this afternoon I got busy on the garden plot.  It was really warm.  I got a tan!!!   Scraped all the weeds off and the ground is really clean at this point.  Dug out a bit of horseradish.  Cleaned the asparagus plot.  This garden gets no weed killer because it's full of milkweed.  That happened 3 years ago...Bad, bad.  My swamp milkweed didn't make it through the winter.  Bummer.  Monarchs like it...Dill is coming up...Swallowtails love it.  So time to think more about what to plant for my friends!  Woo...I thought my back would not straighten up but now it's just about  fine.  It's been a beautiful day.  More hostas are up.  Ginger is up.  Bluebells are happy.  What an interesting garden. Now...tomorrow?   What ever happens...all is well.  Another fun day coming.  The squirrel sat and sat trying to think of a way to get to the basket with sunflower seed.  Didn't succeed.

Hummm...Where does the time go?

Sunday...good church...last sermon on understanding the Bible...Great series for Lent.  I going to ask for copies of all of them to read over again.  Birthday party for 10 year old Noah.  Great food and lots of talk.  Evening...bushed...slept...watched a bit of TV...I think.  Got our Sunday call from JB and Kimmy from the Swing...I love it!!!!   Today...Woo...Went to church at 8:3 0 and left at 12...Put things away...and got out decorations for Palm Sun.  That was work!!!  but I would say...fun work.  Then on to Sarah Ellen's to repair her couch!  Easy fix but took a bit of time.  Got a few groceries for their refrigerator...left a note with the two tea cups sitting on the counter that Kimmy made.  Sarah Ellen grew up in Japan and these cups are a perfect home coming gift for both her and Joe.  I know she'll love them.  I think they will be back in Indy maybe tomorrow in retirement from their work in Kenya.  I'm happy and sad at the same time.
This evening...NCAA last game!  Walking among the flower beds is just more fun than a barrel of monkeys.  Lots of stuff hopping out of the ground.  More birds back with us.  Blue bird mother continues to sit.  Finches, woodpeckers, robins, cardinals...and more.  Lots of color and  music.  Still fighting with the squirrel.  Tired of feeding him bird seed.  Bird seed is for the birds.  

Blue bird report

Yes the houses are up but our little blue bird decided that it is was nest building time before the houses arrived and the worty gourd now has 4 blue bird eggs.  Woo...hope she's not planning this family to arrive to early in the year.  We got the first two parts of the umbrella on the patio with the help of Andrew and Noah.  The stole is coming along just fine.  What fun.  Yesterday was Bread and Bowl lunch with a fine group of community folks.  Our numbers are down and we learned that the apartment owners are pricing their rents higher which is forcing  folks to live else where.  How sad.  The current housing is not the best as it is.  So the work for the next few days...finish the stole...fix Sarah Ellen's couch...go to Panera's for Sunday pastries and then church!  Not a bad combination of jobs.  Oh...and check the garden for peas...parsley and find all the perennials that are popping through the ground.

Warming up!

I'm ready for the outdoors although planting can't come soon enough.  My little seeds are starting to emerge but May needs to hurry up. And I hope my plants aren't to big by then.  It's flower growing time.  Yesterday I started one of my most favorite things to do.  Our associate minister is moving on to his own church in July.  He also is being ordained in June...So...it's stole making time.  Woo...I can get lost in fabric and thread!  The stole is green with lots of liturgical symbols,  North's cross along with a challis is at the bottom of the stole.  I'm ready to stitch justice scripture passages from Micah and Amos tomorrow.  Ronny is our community outreach minister and he will be missed.  It would seem that North is a teaching church sending newly ordained ministers on their way to a church of their own.  I can't count how many times this has happened.  So...once more it's happened again.  We had a heavy snow on Sat. night.  What a surprise.  Today, three blue bird houses are up ready for our little bird friends who were with us all winter.  It's been a great bird winter.