Friday the 13th and it has been a busy morning and day so far. We got Kate to her Doppler appointment on time this morning. It didn’t take very long because there was no student involved in the process. Deaconess is a teaching hospital so they often have students involved in whatever process you’re having. For today’s Doppler testing it would have taken at least twice as long for a student to do the test. Granted they have to learn, so I never mind because the teaching is done one on one. 

Anyway, since she was done so quickly we went o the donut shop and picked up a couple of donuts and went home for donuts and coffee. Then we went to our appointments, Kate to hair appointment and me top get my toenails trimmed. I do that every four weeks. If I don’t they get really ingrown and it hurts like the dickens to get them back in order. 

So, I checked on my potatoes this morning and I have potatoes plants sticking their noses through the ground. They are of course a couple of month from getting to dig them but it is good to see them up. And —— I cut my first asparagus today!!! But, while these “spring-like” things are happening, we are getting another blast of winter coming in starting Sunday evening. Monday night is supposed to get down to 16 degrees and Kate just told me that Minnesota and Wisconsin are looking at maybe getting as much as two feet of snow over the weekend. That would totally suck. 

Well that’s my news of the day. I hope you have a very blessed weekend. Don’t forget we are in the middle of the Lenten season. Take time to have good conversations with God. Peace, my friends. 

 

My 2026 gardening has begun! I planted my tomato seeds today in their pots. There are 18 pots with two seeds each in them we will see what happens now. We should know in 10 or 12 days whether they are going to germinate. I only intend to “garden plant” about 10 plants and I will share with other folks that might want a couple. They did well last year at first and then they just quit. I think I had too many and planted them too close. I also am trying two new varieties, Early Girl Bush and Bushsteak. I will be interested to see how they grow. I also have my potatoes in the ground. I need to check on them and see if they have started coming up yet. Later, after we think the chance of frost has passed, I have some summer squash to plant. I will most likely put that in a large flower pot too. 

Tomorrow is Friday the 13th!! Are you scared? I don’t know why Friday the 13th is supposed to be unlucky or whatever.Maybe I need to ask my friend Google. One should always have a good supply of absolutely useless knowledge to fall back on. 

Can you believe that the month of March is almost half over? We are only a little over four weeks from Easter. I only know that because I’m preaching the next three Sundays which takes us through Palm Sunday. 

I noticed today that the tress are starting to get “fuzzy” meaning that they are about to leaf out. That of course will bring on pollen season. At least here in southern Indiana it isn’t as bad as some places we have lived. North Carolina is the worst. Pine pollen turns everything green. It’s a mess. 

Okay, I promised my lady that I will take her out for supper so I better be getting myself ready. Have a blessed evening. Peace. 

 March 10th, 7:30 pm and I’m just getting around to writing something down. We’ve had a busy few days over the weekend and yesterday. Yesterday Kate had two doctor’s appointments, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Her morning appointment was with her chief cardiologist. I’m happy to report that he gave her very good report and she doesn’t have to go back to see him for a year. To us, that is the best report possible. 

From there we went to the church that I’m preaching at this coming Sunday. I had to pick up one of their hymnals so I could pick out the songs for the next two Sundays. I met the church secretary and found out that she is a licensed pastor too and is the pastor of the Disciples of Christ church in Wadesville, IN. She asked me if I would be interested in filling in for her occasionally. Of course I said yes. 

From there we went to Biaggi’s for lunch and then headed home to await our next appointment. That was scheduled for 3:30 pm. As we got closer to the hospital where her appointment was to be, we kept noticing that the traffic lights were out. Sure enough, we got to the hospital and they told her they had no electricity and she would have to reschedule her appointment. So, she took care of that this morning. 

Tonight we are waiting on some severe weather once again. The storms have already struck the upper part of Indiana and Illinois. I just got a text that baseball size hail is falling across Illinois. I pray everyone in the path of these storms remains safe and I also pray that the tornadoes really don’t materialize anywhere. 

My yard is really looking nice. The daffodils, hyacinth, crocus, and forsythia are all blooming as well as the pussy willows. I know if we have  heavy storms and rain tonight it will hurt the daffodils and I hate to see that. Spring bloom just doesn’t last long enough. 

That’s it for tonight. Have a blessed night.  

 Where the heck does time go??? I can’t believe it’s been almost a week since I last wrote.  We not only changed weeks, we changed months!

We have been busy though. There have been doctor appointments and shopping trips. And we had a couple of really nice days and I worked outside. I got a nice start on spring work before the rainy days moved in. 

This morning I came through the family room to the kitchen and saw that I had some water streaming down my wall. I had this once before and when the Heads Construction folks went up there to look at it, it was because leaves and limbs had damned the corner up. But I had just looked up there a couple of weeks ago and it didn’t look too bad. But, that was the problem once again. I’m going to have to figure out a way to make sure that doesn’t happen again. Maybe when Jim comes over I can get him to go up there and blow it off, or maybe Lincoln from next door can go up there. It’s totally safe but I have a short person that threatens to kick my butt if I try to get up there. She said something about me being 81 and never seeing 82 if I go up there. 😜

Did I tell you that we not only filed our tax’s we have received our refunds. Yay!!! Done for another year. 

I had an optometry appointment this morning. I’m glad to say tat my eyes are in great shape. The cataracts are gone and the scars from that are gone. No need for a new glasses prescription. I scheduled Kate for her eye exam while I was there. 

I have writing to do today. Although it might take me a bit to get to it because I filled the Backyard Buffet yesterday and I have a lot of guests to keep an eye on. 

That’s it, Have a blessed day. 

 Friday night. I just peeled an orange for my midnight snack. I was going to have a bowl of cereal but saw the oranges on the way to the refrigerator and changed my mind. While I was fixing mine I fixed one for Kate too. I call it my midnight snack but it’s only 2230. We almost always stay up until midnight or maybe 1:00 am. 

Well, I was hoping that my blog today would tell you what a great time Ms Kate and I had on our little anniversary get away. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen. Tuesday afternoon Kate started getting sick with flu-like conditions. Wednesday morning as you recall, she was to have an MRI. She canceled that too and I cancelled the hotel and the dinner reservations at Cavanaugh’s. We spent our anniversary at home and she slept almost the whole day. 

She had a fairly good night’s sleep but when she got up this morning she was still a little rough and felt “woozy and wobbly”. So she cancelled her hair appointment, and we have set around the house again today. I fixed breakfast (actually brunch) and I fixed our supper. She is feeling better now and I hope by tomorrow morning she is over whatever she had. 

I am including in my blog today a video that I had Julie out together as my anniversary card to Ms. Kate.

https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipNpqaea98at-J6g8V8_pysxmdSWACzXF1t9IcBT

I hope that comes out right for my posperity. I think you can tap on it and it will show up.  

Time to quit. Peace. 

 Well —— today has not turned out as I planned at all. As I told you, Kate was to have an MRI around noon today and then we planned to check in to the local Bally’s Hotel /Casino for tonight and tomorrow night to celebrate our 60th wedding anniversary. However, last night she got to feeling bad and thinks she has the flu. This morning she was feeling no better so she called and rescheduled her MRI and I have cancelled the hotel and also cancelled our dinner arrangements for Cavanaugh’s tomorrow night. I absolutely hate that she is feeling bad and hope she gets over this in a couple of days.In the meantime, all I can say is; Crap!!!! I was really excited and looking forward to us celebrating this. 

Dis you watch the State of the Union address last night? I watch the last half of it. I thought the President did a really good job although it was a “typical” Donald Trump speech. It was the usual “the biggest, the best, first time ever” stuff that he always does. And of course the opposition comments given by a newly elected very liberal governor said it was all lies. The same thing happens when we have a Democrat President. Politicians are always good for calling one another out while  getting nothing done. The thing about the event was the terrible disrespect shown by the members of the Democratic Party and the nation is pretty much calling them out on it today. The president asked everyone to stand if they believe the first duty of our elected leaders and representatives was to look after the welfare and safety of the American people. Only one democrat stood. That is shameful and I hope it gets reflected in the 2026 elections. On the other had, —- I think we all know it was a trick question and the president played them like an old fiddle. He knew they wouldn’t stand for anything he said to them and they walked right in to the trap.  The other thing that as so disgusting was to of the Democrat congresswomen constantly screaming at the President as he was giving his speech. Totally disrespectful. But it is a representation of today’s society. I just shake my head. 

Nuff talk about politics.  I hope you have a blessed day. 

 Tuesday afternoon.  It’s been a relatively quiet day, but is still pretty chilly. I think we are up to maybe 40 degrees by now. We started at 19 again this morning. We are supposed to be in a warming trend again. The roller coaster continues. I thank the Lord tat we are not experience in the weather that is still going on in the North East. Rhode Island got 37 inches of snow. I wouldn’t know where to begin clearing that kind of snow away. And I think that some places like New York are looking at least two more snow storms coming in. 

Here in Evansville, I have two crocuses blooming today. And my daffodils are all up and have buds on them. They won’t open though for maybe another two weeks. But the intermittent warm days are going to just get more frequent. And in 24 four days Spring will be here. I celebrated that today by ordering y tomato and zucchini squash seeds. I also ordered an indoor greenhouse for the sun porch. To grow my seeds in. It is time to plant the seeds  now and they should be big enough by the first week of May to plant out doors in the garden. I had not planned to do a tomato garden again this year but I gave in. And I guess I will try to grow some zucchini in one of my big flower pots. But, I need to get fresh potting/garden soil put in all of my pots and spread the old stuff out in the garden. As usual I’m going to be making extra work for myself. This year we decided to raise “bush tomatoes” and see how they work out. Generally I raise “regular tomato” plants that grow to about four feet tall or so. These are supposed to grow to about two and a half feet. The worst that can happen is that they won’t produce and I’ll just end up dropping by the local produce stand. And will have wasted money on seed. I still have okra seeds left over from last year. I guess I will see if it is still any good. Ms. Kate will want to plant a couple of cherry tomato plants too. 

Kate has an MRI tomorrow and I think needs to go have blood drawn again all before we go to the hotel. We can’t check in until 1600 so there is plenty of time. 

That’s my blabbering for today. I hope you have a blessed evening. Peace.