…yesterday I climbed the ladder to hang patio lights from my awning. While arranging, and re-arranging, I came across the lights, washed them, and decided I’d “stay in motion” and hang them. I’m getting a head start on Memorial Day and Independence Day. 🙂
MONTHS @ CARE,Ball Park figures: Thirteen thousand six hundred hours (13,600) or eight hundred twenty-one thousand minutes (821,000).
Rather than celebrate Mother’s Day, I celebrate the decision to make Escapees CARE my final home. (I hope and pray I never go to a convalescent home.) CARE is a “caring” community tolerant of our frailties as we face our sunset years.
Here is a story–less than twenty-four hours old. CARE residents and many guests enjoyed a “Tea” yesterday afternoon. Many lingered in the Dining Room for additional socializing. One young lady guest had previously promised to visit my garden BUT could not locate her truck and RV keys. We searched the Dining Room, emptied the trash can, phoned folks that had already departed. The young lady **did** visit my garden and then we went back to search again!!
About six o’clock there was a knock on my door and the joyful announcement “I found the keys.” One CARE resident absent-mindedly put the keys in her pocket and just did not “feel” them. The resident was an active member of the “search team” and believed she had checked her pockets.
CARE residents have physical limitations but we look out for one another–and have staff to turn to.
(Folks are tolerant of one old lady devoted to the birds, with fifty planters in her yard, and amused that an eighty-year-old lady laid eighty cement paving blocks for a greatly appreciated patio. Irrelevant, and undesirable [for them], but an acceptable peculiarity.)
Yesterday, my backyard neighbor asked if I could do anything to help two baby birds at the foot of her steps. Frankly, I did not have a suggestion. This morning, washing dishes, I saw the babies from my kitchen window. I’m grateful they are off the ground. Poor babies!! Will they survive??Â
It’s only early May and the heat and humidity is miserable!!What will we experience in July and August?? Yes, I have the air-conditioner “on” but obviously need to “tweak” it to a lower number.
I’m leaving in a couple of minutes for a Mother’s Day Tea at the CARE Center. “Tea” and a fashion show. I’ll need a sweater because the CARE Center temperature resembles a walk-in freezer!!
“Tea” social was very enjoyable.Jade Helm: As a Texas resident, I’m concerned!! Check this very interesting article titled Jade Helm double take.
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, the saying goes. And the media’s desperate attempt to smear all those speculating about Jade Helm is a thick blanket of suffocating smoke. As I watch this story unfold, I can’t help but think this is going to be yet another example where the same media condemning everyone of being a “conspiracy theorist” comes out a few years later and reports those same theories as fact.Â
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The Internet has many links; here is another point of view.
Yesterday, no access to the Internet–so no blog message. The outage was somewhere beyond CARE and the RV Park.
Almost the entire day (yesterday) was spent in my yard. Lots accomplished but I won’t list them all. I’m not sure how I ended up repairing wind chimes. One project led to another, and another, and eventually I picked up shelved chimes and yard decorations. Psychologically, I guess it is the need to complete projects: “A place for everything and everything it its place.”
Today, activities in the CARE Center. Nothing accomplished at home. Currently (4:20), very humid, eighty-six degrees; cloudy and probably more rain before end of the day. Weatherman said official high for Livingston was eighty-seven degrees but “felt like ninety-three” due to humidity. I may need to turn on the A/C for the first time?!
I thought about giving this blog the title: Doing…, doing…, done. I see the end of my yard projects. Soon I can limit my activity to watering, and watching the plants grow.
Postscript, Friday, May 8, 2015, 7:30 AM: OK, OK, three pictures of repaired yard decorations. ~~ Finally, the wrought-metal poles and Shepherd’s Hooks have a location. Gratefully, the area to the left of the storage building has very few “to do” items. ~~ “Yes, I admit my yard is cluttered!!“
I’m glad so much was accomplished between enclimate weather.
FYI: No more BIG purchases this year. (Last year: Composter, Rain Barrels, and lots of plants.) I hope to sit back and watch the plants grow.
Yesterday, a relatively inexpensive but important purchase. Eleven more cement blocks to square-off my patio. Four smaller cement blocks to place under planters. “Why now?” Because the ground is soft from recent rain storm, AND another rain storm will help to settle the blocks. Not only do I want to “make hay while the sun shines,” I want to work with the weather conditions given me. ~~ It is so delightful to work in the yard when there is little or no humidity!! (Click each picture to enlarge for better viewing.)
I suspect you could care less!! However, I’m here (at ten o’clock) to report that the cement block project is completed (for now). The wind is whipping the awning; the wind chimes are “chiming”; the sky is cloudy and gray. ~~~~ I have time to shower before lunch. Enough heavy lifting for two days!!
In my humble opinion, life would be so boring if I didn’t have my yard!! Yesterday I learned something new: I identified the Northern Mockingbird. It has frequently been at the Bluebird mealworm feeder so I belatedly checked my several charts…. ~~ A variety of birds visit the feeders and almost all are welcome. “Hey Mockingbird, stay off the Bluebird feeder!!”
Hummingbirds always welcome in my yard.
Sunshine is glistening off the stained glass wreath hanging in the window close to where I sit at my computer. Time to position the ladder and wash the windows?!
Yesterday, a man–temporarily in the RV Park–walking his dog, “discovered” my yard. He enthusiastically said “Oh what a lovely garden.” I thanked him and replied “Most people say ‘Oh, how cluttered’.” Today I set up another Shepherd’s Hook (from North Carolina) for the bird bath. The “Water Wiggler” keeps the water moving so it won’t stagnate. ~~ Nothing strenuous today: The Lord’s Day, a day of rest.
“Good afternoon” too!! Primarily, mental exercise. I’m always looking for a way to use the garden items I have accumulated. Shepherd Hooks were expensive (in North Carolina) but where to put them has been illusive. Then, in my mind’s eye, I saw how I could configure a second hook with the one installed earlier. ~~ If birds do not come to the bird bath (too close to the trailer?), I can hang wind chimes.
Three Quarters & Counting 