Sunday

 

Yesterday I went through an old dresser drawer with hopes of throwing some stuff away.  Ingrid on my calendar from Shutterfly I had to keep. It says Faith can move mountains. And I didn’t trash Sigrid’s birthday card to Pop. Inside she drew a dog. Pop loved dogs and Sig wrote the sweetest message.

My coleus in my brother’s deer gut tub has really took off. Helen gave the old tub to me. This October 16th, she’ll be gone one year. I still miss her and I am resigned to continue the feeling the rest of my own life. Missing is remembering. Not missing is forgetting and I don’t even want to….

Today is Ada’s Harrison Library Run. I love her black patent boots! She selects a huge tote of books! Erin has trouble getting her to leave the shelves! Ada was reader of the month.  She read the most in her class! She clipped her award on her backpack💜

Be thankful if you can move with ease— such a blessing! I saw Sumac, American Beauty Bush, Day Flower, Poke Sallet, and Flowering Spurge on my morning walk! Sumac is a fascinating plant! Many are allergic to it! Its seeds are used as a spice, a dye, making teas! It has a lemony taste. It was once used to tan leather.   The Sumac plant is related to cashews.

A starter on Varsity Volleyball was injured and Greta (a sophomore) was moved up to play varsity. I got to watch her games on Hudl. She did great. Basketball season is coming up. Volleyball will be a memory. 

Weekend

I’m making a set of cherries for Fleta’s friend at work. She wanted three. Two are small and one about 8 inches. Cherries this big seen strange but I’m making them. They look like apples to me. Oh, well. I didn’t have a pattern. I just found a picture of a cherry and used my imagination.

Fleta walks too. Well, when she feels she can. Many days she’s tired. She gets up at 3:30 every week day to go to work. She leaves her house at 4:30. Starts at 5:00. She does stuff on the computer for Tyson’s. Her work has to do with reports on chicken they sell to Panda, Wendy’s and Burger King. It’s in excel  I think. She walked down the road one day this week and this guy was crossing. She graciously let him go first. When we were kids we walked down this road to get our mail for our mother. If our sis Helen was with us she might grab this creature by the tail. Once Fleta and I threw rocks at a stunk we met along the road. We really had no idea how made we smelled until we arrived home with the mail. Momma was not happy. 

Astrid shared some pictures of the 7 arches they saw on their hike. This one is the longest.

Kay and my professor’s big day is October 17th. She’s invited us to be her guests at her table. She’s being inducted into the ATU Hall of Fame. She’s 90 years old. She doesn’t have many family members to include. No children. Kay thought we should give gifts. Kay painted this bear. It’s a pastel. I think that’s chalk. Dr. Gordon takes pictures. She admires Ansel Adams. I ordered her a book of 100 color images. He’s famous for black and white so I guessed she wouldn’t have the colored ones. She has some of his prints. Well, now Kay has decided the gifts will be distracting and we have to figure out how to give them to her but not during the big deal. Since Kay thought of the gifts, I letting her figure out how we’ll present them.

 

And the Rains Came Down

Whiskey reports 3/4 inch of rain. Maybe they’ll lift the burn ban and I can burn the limbs I’ve picked up!

Greta’s Volleyball team beat Gentry. She’s in the dark pink shoes.

Astrid said she crashed once while dirt biking. No bad hurts. She hates those boots he makes her wear. Asti does it because Logi loves biking and he does things she loves to do.

Today Logi did what Astrid loves. They hiked the primitive trail. It was 7.5 miles taking in 6 arches! If I could walk, this would be a dream of mine. Asti said the trail was rough.

Greta got a nice compliment from her English teacher. And yippee Clayton got a hair cut. He didn’t do as well on his speech. His teacher said his hair caused a distraction. I guess he kept tossing his head to get his hair out of his eyes. He told his Dad he wanted a haircut. I like it. I don’t have a before but it looked bad. 🤭

Thursday October 1

Kay and I tried Nana’s at Opello. We found the town easily but drove around awhile looking for the restaurant. She had a cheeseburger and I had fried catfish. The Cole slaw and French fries with my fish were not good, but the fish and hush puppies were what I was craving. The fish wasn’t over salty. Kay had dessert. She carried cheesecake home for later. I passed. We had a nice afternoon.

Then I went to the nursing home to see my 96 year old friend. She’s not long for this world. She was asleep, but her son and daughter were there so they know I came to see Mary.

Cliffhouse Palace, Mesa Verde, home to the Pueblo people was what A and L saw yesterday. I would have enjoyed seeing this.

I finished Boat Baby. Vicky left Vietnam when she was 8 months old. I enjoyed her memoir. It’s hard to imagine how some people suffer. 

I requested the book Connie read about the homesteaders in Colorado. (The Diary of Mattie Spencer) Our Dover branch had it so I’ll get it next to read. 

The library had just received Whistler by Ann Patchett. I was lucky to get it and started it last night.

Today Astrid and Logan are dirt biking. It’s Logi’s favorite thing to do. They’re camped at Moab now. I’ve been watering her garden stuff. The sprinklers are not working well. I want her plants to live. Rain comes in tonight so if we get a good rain her stuff will be good til she returns.

 

Hump Day and End of the Month

Laura finally got to the end of the treatments. She peeling off now. I know she’s ready to get done with this. She’s premature gray like her father. No longer a redhead!

This morning I walked to Astrid’s gardens and watered everything. The sprinklers don’t seem to be sprinkling. Laura got the soakers on. I picked a lovely purple bell pepper and fixed an omelette for my breakfast with it. Her mandevilla is full of blooms but next year it’ll be even better.

It’s really pretty. The leaves are deep green and glossy.

Yesterday L and A went on a train ride. They saw some beautiful sights. They move on toward Moab today I think. Eric’s father lives in Salt Lake. They’ll have partners for a few days. I am praying Asti gets to behold the wild horses!

Kay and I are going to Opello today to eat at a new place, Nana’s. My turn to pay. Hoping it’s good.
 

Tuesday

 

Laura’s dermatologist prescribed Florouracil 5% for her face. She has to apply this skin eating stuff twice a day. As the days go by it has looked worse and worse. Laura is a redhead who has loved the sun all her life. This is chemotherapy to destroy precancerous lesions on the skin. She has a special hat to wear outside. This hurts me even to see her. I’ll be glad when it’s over.

Sigrid and Logan E. took Astrid's indoor cat to their place while Asti and Logan are out west. Sig couldn’t find the cat. She called Logan E. He came home to help her search. The cat was hiding in the couch. All’s well that ends well.

Sigrid with some of her pharmacy friends. She’s mentoring two first year students.

I bought some new tennis shoes. The brand is Topo. I wanted them but didn’t feel I deserved them. I can’t walk that far and my pace is slow. I resisted getting them even though they were on sale. I went back telling myself if they were still there I was getting them. They were and I am pleased. They really help my left knee not roll in. 

My friend Kay are going to eat tomorrow at Nana’s. It’s at Opella, AR about 35 minutes away. I hope they have catfish.

Monday, Monday

Ada loves church. The lesson was about the Good Samaritan. Looks like Ada is the traveler who was robbed and left for dead on the road to Jerusalem. The Good Samaritan helps her. The lesson is for us to show mercy and help those in need. I’m sure Ada got the gist of the tale.

Her afternoon was spent at soccer games again. Her Dad does gun shows each weekend. He was in Poto, Ok.

Today when I hobbled along with stick in hand, I was amazed at how beautiful the trees’ image was reflecting off the water! The colors mingled and gleamed as if the lake was a looking glass!  Then I spotted the Prairie Tickseed blooming nearby. It’s of the Aster family and gets its name because its seeds look like seed ticks! Sometimes, I have to push myself to get moving, but afterwards I’m happy I did!

Logan and Astrid started their vacation yesterday. They left at 2 in the morning and are to their first camp site. It’s between Durango and Silverton. She said there was a drizzle and it was 45 degrees.  

She has an agenda for the entire trip. They took their four dogs. 

Yesterday I used the rest of my mellow apples and made crockpot apple butter. Helen used to make it. I added no sugar. It’s really good if I can boast. I made 3 pints. Fleta gets one!

Lord’s Day

My Wandering Jew likes the cooler weather. I’m trying to decide if I should bring it in when the cold weather comes. I may. I got it by pinching a sprig from a large plant where I get my hair cut. I rooted it and planted the sprig.

Nature planted this bouquet. Daisies and False Foxglove contrasted with green—very pretty.

I was out early to walk 30 minutes. The sky was gray and we’d had a sprinkle of rain. I saw several flights of Canadian geese who had rested on Galla Lake last night. They are traveling south and our area is in their flight pattern. In the spring, they’ll come through once more heading north to Canada.

Behold a rainbow over Galla Meadow!