Another week

A super fun time at the Michigan Russell home.  Woo  ..played a lot of card games and lost a lot of card games.  Laughed until we hurt.  The weather was great...took walks, talked to the sheep, played with the dog and had great food.  Loved every minute.  Home again and love looking at all the things popping out of the garden.  Lettuce is up.  Digging onions with Jacob and IT"S SPRING!!!   Tomorrow spending the day at St. Luke's UMC for a whole day of gardening sessions.  Wonder what I'll learn.  Blue birds continue to entertain.  Jared made MANY B.bird houses and I have a few to put up around the yard.  Yeah!!!!!   Cinnamon Rolls this morning.  Not many left!

Saturday.

Finished knitting another hat.  I need to get a few more to cancer patients.  The hats are growing.  Weather continues to make me want to be outside even when it is around 30.  Added more water to the frozen bird bath this morning and filled the feeders again, watching many birds come to eat.  Love seeing the blue birds.  And they love the suet.  Did our usual Friday chocolate chip cook make.  Some are eaten here and some go the Eric family.  And we'll take some to Michigan on Monday.  Woo, woo.  Yesterday I planted lots of seeds in pots for early transplant to the garden.  All flower seeds so this is a first inside planting I've ever done.  What was I waiting for?  There are 50 plugs and I'm hoping for a good return.  Could do even more because I'm sure some won't make it.  Potatoes and pears, parsley and lettuce  are in the garden dirt.  Heading north to the JB family on Monday...back in Indiana Wed. night.  Kids are on school vacation so it's a perfect time to interrupt their lives with grandparents.

More stuff.

Wart is persistent!  Such fun in the dirt.  I've been raking...raking and this afternoon I dug out day lilies that are moving everywhere.  Cup plant is coming out of the ground...birds are singing and the squirrel has found a new way t o get into the basket.  Woo...that squirrel is outwitting us.  I haven't given up YET!  Three kinds of woodpeckers at the feeder.  Woo...that's impressive.   Little and great big.  Sunday at church we had a free trading books event...Took some and brought a few home.  And finding time to read when there is frost on the ground.  Brr...Grocery shopping this morning.  I hate that but we were really, really out of food.  Somehow that happens.  Crockpot chicken tonight.  It's usually soup or salad!  Doug likes the smell of tonight's supper.

A little of this and that.

Today was a lot of things.  Went to JoAnn's and got plastic eggs for church and some blue fabric to fix a top.  Eggs are fixed with string and will hang on trees in the courtyard.  and so is the top.  Fixed that is.   Bought seed potatoes...and some more seeds.  Raked in the yard.  Dug horse radish and ground some.  It's so sweet and tame this time of year.  Made egg salad and horseradish!  Slept...soaked my hand and now trying to get rid of a wort!  First a sty...now a wart.  Watched a bit of basketball.  Fed the birds.  Took Eric to the bus...He's working today.  Kat is not feeling well.  Registered for a Gardening Workshop that's all day on the 23rd.  Oiled the garage door.  So...a little of this and a little of that.

Interesting day.

Woo...the storms are rolling through Indiana.  Mostly south of us but it's one tornado after another.  Warm and windy for sure.  Soup Kitchen was today...It was a very, very small group of folks.  Lots of work and I once again came home and slept for a while.  Now watching TV weather.  Worked a lot in the yard this week.  I'm ready for flowers.  Cleaned out the Dennis minnow basket.  I think it needs a Pansy.  Bulbs are popping up.  And I'm thinking about what I want and where I want it.  It should be a fun summer.  Choir practice tonight.  Tomorrow the kids.  I think it will be chocolate chip day again.  I love watching those cookies disappear.

Eye is better.

A little of this and that and the eye continues to a. good place.  Weather is a little warmer and yesterday afternoon, although it was cool...I spent some time in the gardens clipping and raking and now one garbage can is full and ready for the street pickup...  And...I'm stiff as a board.  Boo, Woo.  Guess I'm not 19 anymore.  So glad I stopped working when I did.  This morning I walked at the Y for 15 minutes...Not 30...What a woose.  So today...garden?  Maybe.  Continue to play 3 13 card game after supper.  I'm the big time winner!!!!  Doug just keeps trying!!!!   It's time to take one wool blanket off the bed.  Temp is kinder!  

Saturday.

Hum...spurt of energy left!   So...back to a bit of knitting.  Kids came on Friday...Thursday I developed something that turned into a eye sty...so the nurse practitioner said.  So.. the skin around my eye looks really bad...Doing medicine and hot packs and if it doesn't go away I am to go to the Doc. who can fix it...She couldn't to cut and stitch!!!  Looking for an easy solution.   I'll see in a few more days where this goes.  Did a funeral Fri. evening.  Today LOTS of rain.  And the kids bought a couch at Kea so the van came in handy.  12 different kinds of birds at the feeder.  I'm so ready for green!!!  Tried to buy seed potatoes and peas but the garden shop said NEXT Sat.