Monday morning

Quite an eventful few days.  Late yesterday afternoon I got an e-mail from friend Emily which required a quick trip to her house with supper with some good Kenyan friends.  Great talk, great Kenyan food and just a wonderful evening that ended at almost 11 pm.  One of the evening Kenyan friends a young lawyer is here for a procedure on her vocal cords this morning.  Another is Elsie who has been here for 6 years working with the Imani workshop but is returning to Kenya to live in mid May.  There were in-laws from Vancover, as well as others.  Fun,fun. 

Yesterday afternoon I planted 3 cabbage and 3 broccoli plants along with some onions.  I was surprised how warm the soil was.  The nights are very cold near frost but I think that will change soon. 

This morning I am taking Salomi to Wishard Hospital for an 8 am appointment with a doctor.  I'll leave the house at 7 am so this will probably be a long morning watching people while waiting for Salomi. 

I had a lunch date with old teacher friends but that might need to be ignored if we're still at Wishard. 

The quilt top is finished.  Last patch went in at 4 pm yesterday.  It doesn't need me any more.  Now I need to talk with someone about long arm quilting to put this thing all together.  I'll be spending more time in the flowerbeds and garden in the next few days. 

Tuesday evening

Woo...back home yesterday afternoon. Time went by quickly while on the road because I worked on the quilt for most of the way. Ran out of fabric. That stopped everything. So...cut more squares last night and so far today just did about 2 hrs worth of work. Tonight I'll do more. Went to the library with books, then watched some men take a wrecking ball to the grain storage unit in downtown Carmel. It went very slowly so came home and got Doug and his camera for a few pictures. Boy...did we waste a bunch of time with a whole lot of other retired people watching the wrecking ball. Worked a bit on the flower garden replanting some things that heaved out of the ground. Went to Rosie's nursery. Man...what a beautiful place. Bought a few things. Surprise, surprise...I tired out myself in the garden in record time. I think this spring thing will be a bit on the slow side. Heated up supper and soon it will be quilt/tv time. I think this year in the garden I'll be the new turtle that sits in the garden at this point. Slow and easy gets the job completed. Still thinking about wonderful memories of Michigan. What fun.
Watched the Indy grandsons soccer practice. The ball is as high as Noah's knees. He's loving every minute as well as Andrew.

Michigan

We are spending the weekend with JB and family...What fun. Lambs are everywhere. They move around the field as birds fly. It's herd time. Smallest 12 lbs...largest in the low 20's. All black little animals that jump and twist and turn and make so much noise in the barn with their mommy's that one can't talk above them. They are inside at night and outside during the day. I'm so impressed with the time that Kimmy and JB put into this project. It isn't easy. We weighed all the babies last night. Three get a supplementary feeding because of their weight. The chickens are also around...not laying eggs yet but soon to be egg layers. Yesterday we found a fox den in the field. Bad news but it might be an old den...That's the hope at this point although two chickens and the rooster have disappeared. NOT GOOD. Went to church this morning. Doing a bunch of coupon clipping this afternoon. We'll visit Jacob and Adam's school tomorrow morning and then back on the road to Indy. Worked on the quilt for a while here and on the road and it's coming together. Pictures on Facebook and Vikki Shard Monroe's facebook site. Vikki and her kids came over as well as Kimmy's parents yesterday. Lots of good visiting and watching the beautiful twin babies belonging to Vikki. Now off to the barn to feed the babies. More fun.

Crazy Cold Tuesday

Woo...I knew it wasn't spring yet but this has been a cold windy day. Frost is predicted tonight. Brr. What a whimp!!!!! Cortisone shot in the foot came yesterday. I think it so far it is doing the trick. I did the Y today but only did a short time on the treadmill because of pain. Bike was a snap. My sugar is sky high because cortisone does that. What a bummer. I'm closing down to the last patch for the quilt with a total of 101 patches and 12 half patches. Then it's lots of white blocks to get the last 10 patches to hang together and another two times of white hexagons around the outside of the quilt. I need to start talking to the quilt shops that put the quilt together with free arm quilting. I've stayed away from church for the last two days and tomorrow...no plan to get in the car. Thursday is B and B and Choir and Friday we're off to Michigan for the weekend of fun with everyone including lambs. Pacer game tonight. They really are doing well. Fun to watch. Started to use the crock pot again. Great Greek Chicken tonight. More is in the refrigerator.

Easter Sun. Evening

Well, church was good today. Extra chairs used for the second service. Good music, good preaching and good visiting with a whole host of folks. The two Indy grandsons looked reallyi spiffy in their matching outfits right on down to the shoes. And...it was Stake and Shake around 1:45. Yup...first to arrive at church and last to leave. Something is wrong with the picture. So...the plan is that there will be no trips to church on Monday or Tuesday for sure and maybe not even Wed. Thursday is Soup Kitchen and I'll finish up all the altar mess that is left from today. Worked on the quilt this afternoon. More patches ready to sew. I think it's that last of that exercise. And the usual nap in the afternoon and I haven't moved far from the chair. Tomorrow is foot day. Getting a shot in the afternoon to get rid of what is wrong or at least that is the hope. Leaving Friday morning for Michigan family. Hope to see Jacob get off the bus. Yahoo.

Wed. already

Weather continues to be beautiful. Meaning I'm outside looking around at some point every day. There are three huge garbage containers filled with weeds waiting for the garbage truck this morning. Woo...that took a lot of bending, pulling and throwing. Great exercise. Didn't need the Y. A gardener is never finished as you all know and there will be more filled garbage containers but I'm seeing plants that made it through the winter. The herb garden even has herbs that didn't freeze. That was a first. I'm ready to plant a few pansys. Not many just a few. They never last to long before getting leggie.

Still piecing quilt top. It never seems to stop but some day it will. I thought I needed 81 patches, then I thought I needed 91 and NOW I think I'll be working toward 101.

The next few days will really be busy as usual for this time of year...been to church every day. Today I'm on the desk again and working on candles for Fri. evening, no bell practice. Yahoo. But...we're playing Sunday. Uck...that means a very busy early Sunday. Tomorrow is Soup Day, pick up flowers for Easter, choir practice and church. Fri. morning is getting the sanctuary ready with visuals for two services, choir practice and church. Sat. is get the sanctuary ready for Easter. Sunday is EASTER! Already planned to go out for Sun. lunch! Good old Steak and Shake. Monday is the day I get a shot in my foot for pain that I've had for about 4 months now. Still wearing the brace which is a God Send. Now...will the shot work? Hope so. I can't go barefooted right now! Life could be worse.

And...NEXT WEEKEND...we're off to Michigan to see the expanded JB family...It's up to 15 baby sheep at this point. single births, twins, and a set of triplets. Looking forward to lots of fun with the three boys, parents, dogs and ALL the sheep. And...JB fixed my dishwasher! Yes he did. Well, it stopped working. He gave me a check list of things to look for and walah...the first on the list worked. Fork sticking in the float that stopped the water from coming in because the stuck float was giving the wrong message! The fixit bill was wonderful! That's if for now. Need to get my coffee cup filled and clippers in hand for a walk through the gardens to see what happened overnight. Might have missed something.

Palm Sunday

Well, the Palm Sunday parade was a bust. Rain, rain but church was good. Great music, great visuals and it was a great morning. Then off to Noah's birthday party. Fun, fun. I had a wonderful conversation time with Andrew. What a talker and just carrys on with the adults. It was most enjoyable. Noah was a delightful birthday boy pleased and excited with all of his presents. Great meal. Then home and the weather was beautiful and I decided to bite the bullet and get started on the flowerbeds. It's April 1 and it looks like May 15th. So...pulled a lot of weeds, trimmed a whole lot of butterfly bushes and used a little weed killer on spots. The butterfly bushes are coming up like weeds and I can't bare to cut them off. But I did a whole bunch of trimming and filled one garbage container already with clippings. The beds look so pretty when cleaned up. Got to keep at it at some point. It's probably a weeks worth of work or more. Showered, visited with neighbor Nancy and then made another quilt patch. One more to go and then it's getting everything connected together.
Heading back to church tomorrow to start knocking down all the purple lent stuff, put the donkey back on the stage, deliver potted palms to the preacher's house and all that should take at least a good part of the day. Looking forward to Easter afternoon nap.