We got rain.    The weather people warned us but by 10AM, I was beginning to think it was going to miss us when all hell broke loose.   It POURED.    And it was still raining just a bit at 12:30PM when I headed to Dairy Queen. 

I was busy all day but nothing worth mentioning here.   I am trying to find my chargers for my Kindle.   I can see it in my head but can't find it.    Darn, those little people.

I had lunch with my friends today.   That was a nice break.  There were five of us there and we caught up on a lot.  

Then I came home and looked for stuff some more after a short nap to get rid of my headache.  I went for a walk this evening and watched the kids play ball for just a little bit.   Now it is time to settle down for the night.

This evening will is the Summer Solstice.  The season between Beltane, the middle of Spring and Lughnasa, the middle of summer.    So the Solstices are the actual beginning of the seasons.   Pretty exciting.

Leslie is on her way, or already, in California with Courtney, my newly found granddaughter.   From what I gather on  Facebook, the twins are pretty imminent.    Pray that all goes well.  So far everything is perfect.

All these babies.   First John and Holly with Jack and Sam (they are moving back to Sheboygan,  I should be able to see those grand nephews pretty soon.)  Then just this week, Shawn and Bekki had their little Thomas Francis.     I just love it.

So rest easy tonight.  Dia Dhuit

Mary

This was quite a busy day.    It started out very comfortable and though the temperature got up into the 80s we had a nice breeze which kept the humidity down a lot.

I kept busy at home this morning, then after lunch, I went to downtown Plymouth and left flyers about the EBCOArt Poetry event at various places along with what I could about my book.   I am excited as I am now marketing.

This evening, we had a gathering in the empty lots, now a "park" in front of my unit.   We, the board, just sent out an email and were pleased that 16 people came.   So we will do it every Thursday.    Just bring a chair and what you want to drink.   Doesn't matter how many, just a chance to get out of the house and visit.

So it was a very busy day and tomorrow will be similar.

Love you all

Dia Dhuit

Mary

A whole day at home and it was a beautiful day.

At 9:30AM I was on an hour telephone conference with my friend Janet and another friend Joan.   We covered a lot of territory.    I need to assemble it in my brain.

I cleaned my 2nd quarter of the garage.   Only two quarters to go.   In winter things just get shoved wherever.

I watered the potted plants inside and out and cleaned up and sorted lots of papers and prepared for the next two days.    I really have NOTHING scheduled for the next two days but want to start marketing the book.   Tomorrow I will scan in the information and email it to everybody and I want to spend an hour or so tomorrow and Friday taking advertisement stuff for this AND cooler by the lake: the  the Poets of Mead  at the EBCO ARTworks at 12th and Erie in Sheboygan.. 

Mary Eckardt came here tonight to take pictures for the exhibit at EBCO.   We had a really informative visit.   She was the one who interviewed me for the Press when I won the poetry contest at Milwaukee IrishFest in 2002.    So we have a bit of a history.   

What a busy day considering everything.   The next two days will also be busy.   I am excited by the book and will get the picture and all to you tomorrow morning.   That is my morning goal.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

Today I had to be at Aurora for an MRI at 9:30AM. I had planned on arriving early and was glad I did, as they have a new computer system and had to update all or most of my information.   Ick.  But all went well anyway.  It takes quite a while and is noisy as all get out but with the ear plugs, I managed, as usual to get a bit of a rest.

Then I stopped at the bank for a couple of things on the way to the Pig for my weekly shopping.   Didn't need much but stocked up on paper products that were on sale.   Dick would be very proud of me.   He always worried about running out of paper towels, kleenix and bathroom tissue.

Today is six months since he went ahead.   How fast time is going.  It still is lonely without him.  It is hard to get used to.

I filled the car tank while I was out too so I am set for quite a while.   The rest of the day was busy at home.   I prepared a salmon salad from the leftover 52 Stafford dinner.   It was SO good.   I gave a couple of slivers to Roxie and she was a happy, happy girl.

I took a walk at about 4PM because I had a condo delivery and it was so beautiful, it seemed a crime to stay in all afternoon.   I kept running into people and was not back in the house until after 5.   Roxie pointed at her "watch" and chided me for being later to serve her her meal.

I found the boxes of my book on the porch.   Yea,   Now I can start selling and marketing.   You can find it on Xlibris.com, Amazon.com and barnsandnoble.com or ask at bookstores.   They or you will, temporarily have to look it up by my name   Mary J. Kunert as the book title is misspelled in the stores' data base.    The title is Schlitzhagen and Green Meatballs.    It is listed as SchlitzChagen and Green Meatballs.   XLibris is working on correcting this.   But it is there.   I am a real author.   Yea. 

I do have books to sell now and will be going to the local book stores etc.   to market them.   On July 13,  the Mill Street Festival occurs in Plymouth.   My favorite book store Book Heads will have four authors with tables to showcase and sell their books.   I am one of them.   Thank you SUE.  She will also have the book on her shelves along with Fragments and Seeking.

So It has been a very full day.   Tomorrow I am home all day but will be having Mary Eckert here to take my picture for the Poets of Mead event at EBCO next month.   Then I will have the handouts and can share more details with you.   So much is happening in my "writing career".   It is quite exciting.

Until tomorrow then. 

Dia Dhuit

Mary

Bloomsday 2013

Pictures from 52 Stafford and the 3rd Annual Bloomsday Celebration held in Plymouth WI.
 This is Kathy, me with the tartan and Rosemary

We had sample food mentioned in the book and a discussion and readings from Ulysses after a sumptious dinner from my friend Paul Hanson who has read the book THREE times



Joan, Joan, Richard, Felicia LuAnn and Elaine  Paul is next to Elaine








Peg, Joan and Joan and a view of the dining room at the Stafford.

Today was gorgeous.   They say a cold spell is sweeping through and we may get rain again, but nobody should complain about today.   It was our fourth beautiful day in a row.

I came home from Bloomsday last night just too tired to post, so decided to wait until tonight.   It turned out to be a super evening.   There were eleven of us, including my friend Paul Hanson, who joined us as a Ulysses/James Joyce expert.  We started gathering at 5:30PM.    When I arrived, Joan and Dick Kramer and Joan Schwabe and Peg Payne were already there.   The others wandered in between 5:30 and 6:30.   I had brought the usual Gorgonzola and crackers and Peg treated us to a bottle of  Burgundy wine.   I also brought Banbury Cakes from my friend Maureen's book that she shared, The Joyce of Cooking.  I got a salmon dinner.   Brought the soup and part of the salmon home for lunch for today and tomorrow.   The food and service were excellent last night.   I am going to call Sean and let him know how much we enjoyed everything.  Paul gave us a lot of insight into Ulysses and Joyce.   We are thinking of an all day reading of Ulysses that is done in many parts of the world for next year.   Maybe.   Could be fun and a real challange.

Today was my usual busy Monday.   I went to Bible Study at 9:30AM.   Our Peggy was back after a double knee replacement.   She looks good, can drive and walk without support but has to move VERY slowly.   We are so happy she is there.

We finished the second last Psalm in the series.   Mary, our summer bible attendee came today.   We were so happy to see her too.   Last year she was part of another study and never did get to us.   She works at the school for 9 months of the year.   Good discussion.   We have figured out that the Psalms are the same prayers and petitions and praises that we are praying today.   The world has not changed all that much.

Next over to Mom's.  We got her bills all squared away and then I showed her my book.   I will have my copies nest week and then can start seriously selling them.   She kept smiling so I know that she liked it.

Home again, I lunched and then went to the Cream City Writers  where I again shared my book and told them about the poetry exhibit at Ebco in Sheboygan the middle of July.   I will go into detail on that when I get my handouts.   I will also be detailing the book when it properly appears on the web sites that it is supposed to be on.

So a busy day and a tired Mary.

Bless you all

Dia Dhuit

Mary

They said the temps would be in the low 70s today but it got up to 80.    There was a gentle breeze.   It was a bit muggy, but not too bad.   I had a quiet day.    Home all the way.

I finished sorting out my drawer in the file cabinet on writing.

I made Banberry cakes for tomorrow.  Tomorrow is Bloomsday at 52 Stafford, in case you have forgotten.   My friend, Maureen Smith, lent me a book called the Joyce of Cooking.   It is a full cookbook for foods from Ulysses.    I had the ingredients for Banberry cakes so decided to add them to the taste of the Gorgonzola and Burgundy Wine.   A writer friend, Paul Hanson, is coming to talk to us about Joyce and the book.    We may not have a lot of people but it will be a good program and a lovely evening.

My neighbor, Rita, went to Mass with me again tonight.   It is pleasant to have a companion and she is not supposed to drive anymore.   So this is a win win for us.   Fr. Dan blessed all the fathers in church after communion.    I always like to see that kind of recognition.

So tomorrow will be quiet until 5PM when I will be heading over to the Stafford for our Bloomsday event.   Yea.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

I wrote a Haiku that I like but can't figure out what it means.   Can you

Closer behind me
is the world that lies ahead.
 How can I catch up?

Today was beautiful.   The sun shone all day but the temperature hovered in the low 70s.   Perfect.   I could be contented with that all year.

Jody cleaned this morning.   I spent the morning studying up on St. Andrew, who I have chosen for the first chapter in my Celtic Patron Saints book.   Found a lot of interesting information.   Of course, much of it leads to more questions.   That is why it will take a while to finish this book.

I got a call from the Corner Studio in Sheboygan Falls.   My engagement and wedding ring was all repaired.   I am so happy.  You know how good they look new and freshly cleaned and now I know the gem is safe for a long time.  I picked it up on my way to lunch at the Dairy Queen with my friends.   A long way around but I am so happy to have it back.   I just did not feel right without it.

We had a nice lunch.   I received the box from XLibris with my business cards, book marks and post cards.  So I did a bit of marketing at lunch, I gave bookmarks to my friends.

I will send postcards to all of you.   I am so excited.   I should be getting the copies that I have purchased in a week or two so will be able to give my family and friends who read this the book store price.   It really looks good.  

I have spent the afternoon going through the file drawer that I have set aside for writing.   I am throwing a lot away and organizing the rest so that I can get my hands on it easily.

This will be a lovely weekend.   Both days are quiet until evening.  Saturday, I will go to Mass and Sunday the Celtic Women will be celebrating Bloomsday at 52 Stafford.   If anybody wants to join us, we are gathering at 5:30PM for cocktails and conversation.   We plan one eating at about 6:PM  then between 6:30 and 7PM, closer to 7PM I think we will enjoy a discussion of Joyce and Ulysses.   We are joining perhaps thousands of Joyce enthusiasts all over the world in this celebration.   CWI are providing Gorganzola Cheese and Burgundy Wine in the spirit of the event.  

So the day is done and was a satisfying day, I must say.

Hope you can say the same.

Dia Dhuit

Mary




"Every day has one hour in which a wish may be granted and in which a person has the power to see spirits.   Only by trial and error can that period be known."  An Irish Superstition

It poured last night and the thunder just rolled over the house.   I always have trouble sleeping, thunder or no, but finally dozed off and when I woke up it had stopped.  

Today, I worked on gathering information on the first Celtic Patron Saint for  the new book that I am starting.    I have decided to do St. Andrew first and then St. Colum Cille.   They are both patron saints of Scotland and since I am planning on going to Scotland in 2015,   I will do them first.  

I received a call yesterday from a lady named Jen Stewart.  She works for the International Crane Foundation and was coming to the Plymouth Area and wanted to meet people who are members of the Crane Foundation IFC.   I thought that was interesting.    She came today about 10AM and we had a wonderful conversation.   She was interested in how I go interested in them.   I was able to tell her how much Dick and I had enjoyed ICF and used to try to go every year when Dick and I were able to travel.   I also told her that I had met George Archebald at UWSheboygan several years ago.   I had introduced myself to him as a groupie.    I do love the cranes.

George Archibald leads groups to areas where the cranes gather to help them and learn more about them.   Next year in March, they will be going to Nebraska to the Platte River.   I am going.   I told Jen to put me on the list.   One of those tours was always one of my dreams and one in the states would be great.   Maybe overseas sometime in the future.   But this will be just great.  

I took a walk this afternoon.   I also got a call, finally, that my new glasses were ready, so I picked them up too.

So a full, full day.   Tomorrow about the same.   No appointments but a lot to do.  

I called Jacquie tonight.   I received my birthday present from her yesterday.    We had a pleasant talk.  Pray for her.  She is having a procedure done to her lumbar region to relieve fluid in her cranium.   This is suppose to be a very low rish way to do this.  But it is still a procedure and an invasion to her body.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

  I  had my day at home.     The only times I left the house were to go to the mailbox and to step out back to cut some lemon balm for a sauce I made to go with my lamb burger for lunch.

 Steger, the furnace people, serviced the air conditioning unit for the summer today.   They check in the early summer and in the early winter.   Good thing they did, there was a warranty part that needed to be replaced.

 I did not set any specific goals today, but just worked on simplifying anything that I could put my hands on and sorting things.   I feel pretty good about it.   Tomorrow can be more of the same.

 So with nothing exciting to say, I will sign off for the night and hope that you are all safe and warm.   There is a thunder storm raging outside.   Apparently it may go on until 1AM.  But we are not in the "severe" storm area, so I can sleep soundly, with any luck at all.   Roxie is not pleased with the thunder, but she does not hide.

 Dia Dhuit

 

Mary

 

 

 

There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional, and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but, unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.
Rumer Godden

This was a day with no scheduled events.  It was trash day, so I had to get that out to the corner.  I went grocery shopping at about 11AM and got home in time for lunch.    I even made a stop at the bake to cash a check for Mom.  

I had thawed some venison and gravy that I had in the freezer and served it to me with rice and the leftover bean salad I brought home from Mom's yesterday.   It was very good.

I worked on Condo stuff today as I have all the files from the previous secretary now and I also did more followup on the Scotland trip and some writing.    I have decided that starting next week, I am allotting a project for each day of the week.   Actually, Wednesday will be Ancestry and I may at least spend part of tomorrow on that.   However, I received the author's copy of my book and tomorrow will need to contact XLibris to begin the marketing.   I will be doing a lot myself but need to get advice and the marketing tools from them.

I got a call at about noon from my friend Kathy Paul.   She was coming to town and wanted to have coffee at Exchange Bank, if I was free.   Why not.   So we met a bit after 2PM.  On the way, I took a bunch of books that I don't want anymore to Dear Old Books to get credit on new books.  I also picked up a copy of Ulysses as my copy on the Kindle will not be user friendly for me on Bloomsday.   My friend Maureen lent me a book called The Joyce of Cooking which will also be fun to refer to.

Kathy and I shared a cup of coffee and a good visit.   She is a good friend and is a caregiver so I was able to support her in her need too.

Jeff came this evening and replaced the blinds on the north side of the house.   I am so glad.   I have had a towel in the bedroom covering the window where it had fallen down.  I like these better too.   they are the push up, pull down kind.    He stayed for a grilled cheese supper with me.   I really like that, I so seldom have anybody to eat with and meals are much more pleasant if they are shared.

So, a full day.    Tomorrow, I believe I can be home ALL day and am going to work on marketing the book, which by the way is called Schlitzhagen and Green Meatballs, and Ancestry.   I will "Market" it to you all soon.  

Dia Dhuit

Mary

Just another frantic Monday. 

I left the house at about 9AM and got back at 3:30PM.

That is a long day for me.   First I went to Bible study.   We were all there but our Peggy who is still recovering from knee surgery.   We only have one more Psalm after this Psalm 124.   Then a couple of new testament readings and we will be starting a new study.   So we have decided to go from Psalms in the Old Testament to Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament.   It will be a change.   The Psalm studies have been so wonderful.    They are written so beautifully and have such meaning.   Poetry has a message that spans the ages.

After that I went to Mother's.   She was doing well today.   Her hearing is really bad, but we got her bills paid and organized and I helped her pick out her TV for tonight.   I had brought a piece of my pizza for my lunch so I ate with her when her Meals on Wheels came.   We had a longer visit that way.   Since I was was going to Sheboygan for Writer's Club at one o'clock, It seemed like a good idea.

I picked up Sy Regan on the way.    We always have a great visit both ways.  On the way home in our conversation, he mentioned that from way back in the bible when men became " the boss" it was because men are afraid of us because we can bring life into the world.

 The meeting was good.  Each month our leader "assigns" a 250 word or less challenge for us.   The challenge for this month was a 250 word or less writing about an accomplishment in our own life.   I will add mine to the end of today's blog for you.

I have no appointments for the rest of the week, so I should be able to get a lot of writing and some cleaning done.   Yea.   I want to get back into Ancestry too.

So.  Until tomorrow.  

Dia Dhuit

Mary

What have I accomplished by myself. HMMM

Looking back, some of it was foolhardy but it all lead me to the where I am today. I believe that sometimes you have to keep walking down the trail in faith until you see the next stretch.

Almost 30 years ago, my personal life had become impossible for me to continue as it was.

I lived in Southern California. The company that I worked for offered me the management of a new branch in Minnesota, so I loaded up my son and my dog and drove across county to Minneapolis to start a new life. Since I grew up in Sheboygan Falls this brought me closer to “home.”

As it turns out the locals decided to give the job promised to me to another person. A long story , quite colorful. I was given another position and managed to survive in that job for a while. Eventually, I decided that I needed out and if I was going, I would come back to Sheboygan.

Another move for my poor son. The first position I got was necessary but I was horrified at the pay. We got by and I worked myself from processing into an underwriting mortgage position. When I had the opportunity I moved to another company and moved up there too. Before I married again, my son and I were doing just fine and had even purchased a home and found a cat.

Mary

This was a very pleasant,productive and fun Sunday.

I lazed around this morning until 10AM.  My friend, Nancy Gallagher Roehre, picked me up at ten to go to the mass for the St. Mary School final year.  Nancy and I were in the first class that graduated from St. Mary's .   We started in 6th Grade and graduated in 1954.   My brother Jeff was in the first class that went from 1st through 8th Grade.  So the Deeleys were well represented.  It is a shame that the school has to close.   As Mother said,  it was the only alternative to public school in Sheboygan Falls.  Of course these days people are home schooling.  

When I got home it was about 1:30PM.  So I did some cleaning downstairs.  I am trying to get my sewing stuff sorted through and organized.   An impossible task, I know, but one can only try.

Leslie sent me pictures of my new granddaughter and great grandson.  They are both beautiful and I can see family resemblance in them.   So they are good looking.

I will be going to bed early with the Tony Awards on.   Dick and I always watched them and this year I need to find out which show I need to see when I go to New York for my trip.   The entrance act was so phenomenal.

Sandy came over today to bring me the rest of the files and such that I need for this Secretary of Tallgrass gig.   We had a nice visit and  I will spend part of the coming week familiarizing myself with the information.

 I fixed myself a pizza tonight.  Bart and Bret remember this one.  I would thaw a loaf of bread and let it sit.  Then spread it over a pizza stone.   Pour a can of tomato sauce over it.   Add sliced hot dogs,  shredded cheese, ( your choice), assorted herbs.  I used fresh today.  Oregano and thyme.  Don't forget oregano.  Bake at 375 for about l/2 hour.   It is SO good.  I won't even mind eating it for the next week.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

Another lovely day.    Sunshine, not to hot.    No wind.   Tomorrow we are expecting rain again.

I was able to be home until it was time for Mass at 4PM.   Tomorrow I will be going to mass at 10:30AM at Blessed Trinity.    They are closing St. Mary School and are formally doing so at the Mass tomorrow.   They have invited past students to come for the Mass and join in a social after Mass.   I really want to be there as I started 6th grade there and went through 8th grade being in the first class graduating from the school.  All nine of us went to St. Mary's, it is really sad to see it close.   There were just not enough people sending their kids to the school.   It doesn't seem to mean as much anymore.

Jim and Michelle called tonight.   They are just fine.    Lost a little food in the power outage, but not much and were safe in the complex's shelter.   They are busy and taking care of each other.    Now I know all my kids are safe for the time being.

I think I told you Bart came though his new implant of his stimulator OK and sounded really good yesterday when I talked to him.  After a bit of healing this should provide a large measure of relief from pain for him.

I cleaned my spice cabinet today and worked on the Scotland trip and on the marketing plan for my book.   I like days like this.

Roxie still is SO needy when I get home from anywhere.   I think she gets afraid when she is alone and is very relieved when I get back.

So Until tomorrow.

All my love

Dia Dhuit

Mary

A very full day.   I was up and at 'em by 7:30AM.  Jody got here at 8AM.  I washed the sheets so that she could help me make the bed before she left. 

The morning was quiet.   I picked up and put things away until 11AM, when I left to do lots of errands and have lunch with the bank girls.   There were four of us.   Betty, Marlene, Ceil and me.  I had a good old mushroom burger and got caught up with he girls.  It was a fun lunch.

The errands I had were the post office, the bank, the Sewing Basket, Walgreen's and Kettle Moraine Veterinary.   Now, tomorrow I can be home except for going to Mass at 4PM.   Yea.

This evening I went to the Plymouth Arts Center for their opening of their summer juryied mixed media art show.   I was pleased to find that my cousin Steve Bowser was again accepted.   I loved his painting called Red Tide.   A really striking abstract.   A couple of other people I knew were also represented.   Kitly Klitch, who teaches at the Art Center, had an oil called Fallen and Larry Basky, an artist I have long admired had two silkscreen monotype accepted.   I really loved the one called Water Walker.  He said it was his mother and I can see that.

A lovely evening.   Love music by local pianists and wine and snacks to enjoy as one puruses the art.

Kitty Klitch also had an exhibit of her student's work in the main event room.   My friend Mark Montaba got a second place.   That is really special as they are judged by their peers.   There was also a wall of paintings by Larry Krause a Sheboygan Falls Native who died this year and was a student of Kitty's.   She did a portrait of him too.  It was quite impressive.

So Goodnight all.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

A super wonderful day at home.   I slept until about 7:30 and then got up and leisurely made my way into the day.  It was cold.   Cold all day.   As a matter of fact it was rainy and cold when I got up.   Roxie wanted me to open the door to the deck but I told her it was much too icky.

I finished cleaning out the cabinets with sewing stuff in them today.  I have a lot to give or throw away.   I also cleaned the pool table.    Next I will attack the closet with fabric and all of that.  One step at a time.

Aside from that, I was busy all day doing things that just took time but were not at all exciting.

Tomorrow will be much more interesting.  I have decided to have lunch with the bank ladies.   Haven't done that for a while.   I have several errands to do while I am out so will have a lot to report.  I am also going to the opening of the new exhibit at the Plymouth Arts Center at 6PM with Kate.   I always enjoy them.  I ran into Kitty Klitch, an artist friend who teaches at Plymouth Arts, and her students also have an exhibit at the Center so I will have a LOT to see.

So until tomorrow

Dia Dhuit

Mary






On the whole, human beings want to be good — but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Quote from George Orwell

Today was supposed to be a whole day at home but I ended up having to go do some shopping because my black ink cartridge was empty and the one I though I had turned out to be a color.

It kind of misted and rained all day and was cool.   Actually a pleasant day for walking if one went between the misting.

I am working on various cleaning and writing projects now so my days are busy.

Til tomorrow.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

It was chilly all day today.   We are supposed to get rain tonight and it will be cooler tomorrow.   Ich.   Where is summer?   Spring already was a dud.

I started off the morning by putting out the trash.   Not too much this week.   Then I decided to go to Mc Donald's for breakfast.   Suddenly had an urge for a bacon/egg and cheese biscuit.   I ran into my friend Betty and her friend Elaine.   I worked at the bank with Betty.   So she invited me to eat with her.   That was a pleasure.   I eat alone so much.

Next I did my grocery shopping.   Then I drove to The Corner Store in Sheboygan Falls to pick up some chains that I had new clasps put on.   While I was there, I had her check my ring and am I glad I did.   Two of the prongs are GONE.   So they have that to put a new crown or whatever they call it.   I
would be just heartbroken if anything happened to that ring.   I felt naked without it but find that my Claddagh fits on that finger.   So for a week or two, I can survive.

I stopped at Mother's to bring her some supplies that Dick used that she has a use for and I gave her a bottle of wine.   She has been having a glass before she goes to bed at night.   

Home again,  I had some Condo stuff to do and some book stuff to do and some wash.   Then I left for the Plymouth Library and the Kettle Country Quilters.   We had a nice lady, I forgot her name, darn it, do a trunk show of her quilts.  They were just wonderful.   She embellished some of them and is so clever with her embellishments, using buttons and other creative things.

The meeting went well.   I showed my pillow shams at show and tell and the fabrics that I am using for the place mats for our donation to the Plymouth Meals on Wheels.   I should make one extra for Mom and probably will.

Home one MORE time, I have been kind of lazy.   I am just putting things away, and folding clothes and stuff like that.

Tomorrow I will be home all day, yea.   Unless, of course, I WANT to go somewhere.   It is nice to have no appointments.

Saw a cute UTUBE of Marcus eating all by himself.    He is such a cuddle bug. And quite proficient with that spoon, I must say.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

A typical busy Monday.   It was cold when I woke up.   In the 40s.   It did warm up nicely into the 60s and with a soft day with nice sun and no wind, it was absolutely lovely this afternoon.

Bible study at 9:30AM.   Everybody was there except for Peggy Feider who is still recovering from her knee surgery.   I called her when I got home and she is recovering well.  She is home and walking with a walker.   She says that it will be a month before she can drive but she feels pretty well.   She sounded good and we miss her so.  We are almost done with our Psalms study and have decided to do Acts next.   So when I got home, I looked up the information and called Lynn at the rectory to order the materials for us.  We have at minimum two weeks left on psalms but probably will be at least a month.   We did not want to be scrambling at the end.

But there were 8 of us there.   We finished our discussion of Psalm 138.   We just had the last question which asked us what we think the church does for the "lowly"  or for that matter what we do for the "lowly".   And who are the "lowly" anyway.    We decided that we are all the lowly if we are not members of the proud hearted who feel and act above everybody.   Then we got to talking about the innocent.   Like the children and what our responsibilities are to those in need.   Tom pointed out that Detroit, has 300 bodies in cold storage that they cannot afford to bury or cremate.   Is this right?

Anyway,  enough of that,  I went to Mom's next.   She looked great and was very alert and awake today.   We had a few bills and things to take care of and then had a fine time to visit.    I always have to check what is on TV in the evening.   There is a movie tonight that I think she will like.   Ice Castles.

Then I came home and had my lunch.    I had a couple of business things to do and bills to pay so am now all caught up for the time being.   It was so beautiful that I opened the front door.   I managed to get the winter storm door out and the screen in.   I will wait for someone to help me get it positioned in the garage but was pretty proud of myself for getting that far.   If I HAD to I could get the rest of the way, but it won't matter if it sits there a day or two.

With the door open I could hear people talking, so I went out to visit with the neighbors who were out working on their gardens and all.   Such a nice afternoon.

Tomorrow will be busy too but Wednesday I will be able to be home all day and Thursday I don't even have anything scheduled at all.

Yippee

So I hope all my readers are enjoying good weather also.   I know there are fires in parts of Colorado and California.  Louisiana looks sunny and warm like Leslie likes it.   Madison is much like we are.   Lawton looks fine and Oklahoma City is still getting some rain.   Haven't heard from Jim and Michelle.  I left a message this morning.   I figure they will call when they can.   Probably lots to do to just get anything done.   I have the prayer chains and my bible study praying for them and all their neighbors.

So until tomorrow.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

It was in the forties when I woke up this morning.    It got up to 62 but is already dropping down.   The next few days.   I did take the glass out of my front door and got the screen in.   I am having a bit of trouble getting the glass down to its summer resting place but have it out in the garage and when someone is here, they can help me.

I finished the shams for my bed pillows.   I am very pleased.

The rest of the day was cool.    I finished several little projects and put a lot of things away.

 I went at 9:30AM this morning.   I picked up my friend Rita on my way.   As I told you, she isn't supposed to drive anymore.    We found my new next door neighbor Linda seated in the pew with us.    That is nice.   She is very pleasant and should be a good addition to the neighborhood.

Now I get to just wind down, relax and read until I get to bed and sleep.

Have a great week.  

Keep Jim and Michele in your hearts as I got an email saying they will not have power until tomorrow OR the next day.    I called and left a message but haven't heard.   At least, we know that they were not hurt.

Dia Dhuit

Mary