Nuttin' New

Just hanging out----trying to stay warm. Out this AM---In this PM sitting by the fireplace w/the "3 dogmigos" on my lap. What a worthless foursome we make.

Happy New Year---keep healthy, stay safe and in touch.

Love, Mom

Putzing

Mass this AM, volunteered at rectory, ran some errands, washed the car (drive thru car wash) and limbering up to get ready to get more inside winter chores completed. Really difficult to stay focused today---temp is 71 degrees,  sun brightly shining, no clouds, slight breeze. Feel I should go out and check for daffodils.
Replaced all the switch plates and heater floor vents. Also, replaced the shower rings on shower curtains. Lots of help from the posse.

Think I am done----just noticed the Pinstripe Bowl started---K-State/Syracuse---K-State, Daniel Thomas just got a TD in less than 30 seconds into game----call me done w/this Blog.

Stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

Turkeys and Painting...

Keep catching glances of the wild turkeys in the back field. They are not the brightest birds on the block. Why do they think they can sneak past our place? These pictures actually were on the run due to barking varmints at the fence line. I do think the turkeys could take the "boys" but keep their distance because of annoyance of all the ruckus and barking.

Mass and volunteer at rectory this AM. Run a couple of errands and then home to finish the painting. Really am happy w/the color---just want to get it done. Will probably take a nap this afternoon. Was up at 4:15AM, couldn't sleep, fed the "boys" and am now watching them nap. 

Stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom 

Winter Projects

Almost done w/the painting. Someone please intervene if I mention tearing off wallpaper---painting is okay--wall prep following wallpaper removal  is the pits. Really work intensive but love the color.

Needing more sunlight in the hallway and decided would use fireplace screens instead of pet gates. What do you think? Talk about different. That is what I am about----different!!!

Got some wonderful pics of VA grandchildren today. Brought a smile to my face. What cute kids! How great is that!!!

Stay healthy, safe, in touch,

Love, Mom

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas.

Love, Mom

Busy Day

 Mass this AM, more painting to do---makes one wonder how big is that bathroom anyway?...What goes on in the head (will have it done in a day or two) has not gone on in the body. Think I might be in slow gear w/all my other activities----Oh well, have said before---I have the time, am retired, and can get it done as time allows. Just have to make a mental note to self at bedtime that toilet is no longer in the bathroom (so I can paint the entire wall). Would be a long drop to squat if I walked in my sleep. I feel the urge to get more focused on the painting today so I can get things back in order. Would hate to tell people it took 2 years to paint the bathroom (2010 to 2011).

Have a great day, stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

Still Painting...maybe.

Nineteen degrees, crisp air, no breeze... Wild turkeys, deer in back field, dogs on guard, lots of racket. Start of a great day. Left for Mass early just to escape the chaos. Running errands and then back home to paint.

Have a great day, stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

Ma's Day

Moon still out and lights up the back deck. Too cool to be out too long (24 degrees) but worth being out just long enough to look up at the winter sky.  Off to Mass this AM, run a couple of errands, back for a short distraction (more spackling) and then off to a movie this afternoon. 

Take time in your day to stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

Wash the Walls...Fa la la la...

Oops, almost broke into a seasonal all about me song. ALL THE WALL PAPER BACKING IS OFF!!! Hope to get the wall(s) washed, spackled and possibly the ceiling painted before the day is over. Have an extension rod for the paint roller and can just whiz across the ceiling in no time at all. So it really is a Fa la la la la...occasion. (Have some wonderful Nativity pics and wanted to share as a reminder of the real meaning of this season.)

Mass and volunteering at the rectory this AM before the painting project begins. Woke up to the most lovable puppies this AM. Thirty-three degrees, no breeze, still dark, and everything is quiet...nice.

Take care to keep healthy, safe, and in touch.

Love, Mom

Busy week/Special Day

Mass, volunteering at the rectory, on going wallpaper removal/paint project, a few appts., some grocery shopping...

Great day today----Grand daughter (also God daughter) turns 18 years old today!!! Have a special day girl! See ya later in the day to give you a birthday hug. (Pic: Summer fun w/VA cousins {AKA: cute kids in car inVA}.)

Hope your day is special. Stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

Almost there

Removed significant amount of wall paper baking yesterday. Plan to finish up tomorrow and begin the wall wash, spackle stuff and hopefully be ready to paint before the end of the week----remembering I promised myself to be done by Christmas. We'll see.

Cool this AM, sun  shining, no breeze... Mass yesterday evening and slept in this AM (6:45am). Picked up a newspaper this AM at the corner store, made/drank coffee (lots), read, and sat (all 4 of us in one chair) w/the pup posse in the family room. Just finished breakfast and plan to resume the chair sitting, reading, and getting ready for football on the tube.

Have a great day, stay healthy, be safe, and keep in touch. (Lots of family BD's this week--HB Danny, Allison, and Bennett).

Love, Mom

Distractions

Twenty-eight degrees, no breeze, felt a snow flake or two as I walked into Mass this AM. Work clothes on and ready to do more work on the wallpaper removal project. Will be difficult to keep at it----football on the tube later today. Great distraction until the game(s) starts. Might go to Mass this PM and sleep in tomorrow morning. We'll see how it plays out.

Stay healthy, be safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

Backing off (as in wallpaper)

Mass this AM, volunteered at the rectory and am now home for a wallpaper backing removal day.  Thinking I might  be ahead of the Christmas deadline. It is going quite well. Plan on volunteering at the rectory all next week.  

Stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

It's On...

...or should I say it's off. Took all the wallpaper off this AM before Mass (note great ladder). Taking off wallpaper is contagious---once you start you cannot stop until it's done. Now, have to tackle taking off the backing. Figure I will have it done by the end of the week. Then will paint ceiling, sand/poly urethane the wooden window seat, and get those walls done. Plan on having it done before Christmas.

Mass this AM, stopped by grocery store, going to run errands, then the MAMMOGRAM. Wearing comfortable shoes that will support my weight as I stand on my toes during the compression phase.

Stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

Changes

Okay, think I am now leaning toward a new color from "Fig" to "Java" (Notice the food theme.) Went to Mass this AM, volunteered at rectory, threw paint samples out--except for the 2 above. Bringing up the wall paper removal tools and plan to start on the removal before the week is over. Bought (yes, at the hardware store) a great 250/500 watt lamp that can be telescoped or hand held so I will be able to do this into the dark hours of the day. Want to be sure I do not miss any areas.

Have a yearly dental cleaning and mammogram scheduled this week----just wish there were enough days to also throw in a pap smear and colonoscopy before the year ends---NOT!!!!  Got my first gas bill since using the gas firelogs in the fireplace and was pleasantly surprised. Let me tell you again how much I like those gas firelogs.

Okay, I'm OTD and DTR. Stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

More paint samples

Mass this AM. More paint samples--think it is getting close. Found one named "Fig." (The sample is darker than above---might have to tweak the color.) Have placed it on every wall and it is growing on me. Feel some wallpaper removal coming on. Bought the greatest step ladder this year---real sturdy, nice height, and has a shelf for supplies. Have really gotten into loving hanging out at the hardware stores. On first name basis w/the guys at Sutherland's since the summer project.

Taking Buster to vet this afternoon for his yearly senior checkup. Already have the pillows loaded in the care (he loves to ride shotgun on the pillows so he look out the windows). Will be real traumatic for Rowdy and Spencer when we leave w/o them.

It is so bitterly cold out. The wind blew leaves all over the deck this weekend.  Mr T came over, removed/mulched  all of them and even spread them out in the back flower bed. Plan on doing some sewing/mending, TV watching, and reading in front of fireplace this evening.

Stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

Turkeys in the area

Went to early Mass. Thirteen degrees, windy, bitterly cold, dogs barking, wild turkeys on the neighbors play equipment...what more could one ask? Planning on spending the day w/Allie. We are going to see the show to see Chronicles of Narnia.

Keep  warm, stay healthy, safe, and in touch.

Love, Mom

Food for Thought

Mass this AM, plan to attend the Our Lady of Guadalupe activities at St Pat's throughout the day. Wonderful celebration, lots of great Matachine dancing, beautiful costumes, good company, great food... The feast days (2 of my favorites) of both Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe were/are this week.  Sharing a reading from 12/09/2010 Missal: "Do not be frightened or grieve, or let your heart be dismayed. Am I not here, I who am your Mother? And is not my help a refuge?"---Our Lady to Juan Diego. (This makes me think of Pop and how he handled his illness. His strength had to come from an outside source.)

Picking up more paint samples this weekend. The wall paper removal starts when I find the right color---Have samples stuck all over the wall and still have not found the "right" color. Idea!!!---what if I just collage the samples and forget painting? Great winter project---temperatures supposed to drop this weekend.

Hope your weekend is peaceful, staying healthy, safe, and keeping in touch.

Love, Mom

Hmmmmm

Got the rest of the leaves spread and things outside picked up. Expecting cooler weather this weekend. The "boys" were such help---they "marked" all the spots the leaves were supposed to be. The leaves were flying---I dumped and raked--they scratched through them and had them everywhere. What fun we had---it was a beautiful day.

Off to Mass, errands, then home to put more paint samples up on the bathroom wall. The "paint project" is almost a certain thing---just not sure when---must find the right color---Hmmmm. Great inside project.

Stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

OTD and DTR

Warmer weather---36 degrees already. That means: Off to Mass, volunteer, cover a Holy Hour, and home to work outside w/the pup posse. Haven't told them yet as it would cause too much excitment and too much barking in anticipation of all the activity w/the warm weather in store for today.

Stay healthy, safe, and in touch.

Love, Mom

Busy Day

Mass, volunteering, possibly spread out some more leaves, and put a couple more things away for the winter. No wind this AM, though temp. is 27  degrees. Stay warm w/lots of layers from adipose to flannel and then of course the evenings in front of the fireplace. Cannot tell you enough---how great it is to not have to haul firewood and sweeper up and down stairs to do fireplace prep.

Already into the soup phase of winter. The soup of the week is Minestrone. Could (and usually do) have soup every day for supper w/Ciabatta bread. Also, doing lots of roasted winter vegetables w/Ciabatta bread. Think all of this is just an excuse to have something nutritious w/Ciabatta bread.

Stay warm, healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

All is well

Mass, volunteering, reading, watching football, sewing...Quiet weekend ---great football games and ate great supper at K and B's yesterday.

Planning another inside project. Temptations circling to begin tearing the wallpaper off the wall in master bathroom--and paint. Still thinking about a color and plan to also replace the lighting soooo it is only temptation in progress not in action. When these thought cross my mind I begin to set plans in action. Oh save me from myself.

Stay healthy, safe, and in touch.

Love, Mom

Another Festive Decorating Season

Have spent another year out doing myself w/seasonal decorating. Wanted to share a pic of this years project. Know you are all envious of the creativity---easy as flicking a match to light the candles.

Really enjoyed yesterday. The volunteer day retreat at SLC was wonderful. They really made it special for all of the volunteers. (I volunteer to transport retreat attendees to and from airport and set up for banquets--and on call for whatever---call it flying by the seat of my pants volunteering.) Would recommend volunteering as a stewardship for the retirees.

All family members have successfully had their surgeries. Please continue to keep them in your thoughts and prayers for thanksgiving and uneventful recoveries. Also, throw in some continued good health, safety, and keeping in touch w/our family members. Lots going on.

Love, Mom

Prattle On

Cold temp-31 degrees w/gusting winds---Brrrr. Glad most of the out door chores are completed. Still have a few things to do but what the hey----I have several months of winter to get them completed because I have the time. Tree was cut down last week; stump should be ground this week. Got a wonderful note from Matt and am sending a care package to him. Please keep mail going to him. His letters are great.

Off to Mass, volunteer at rectory, finish sewing, play w/the "boys", and read in front of the fireplace later in the day. Stay healthy, safe, in touch and send good thoughts and prayers to family members who are having surgery this week.

Please go to this link and vote on LJ's dress. Look at the pics of the car. Almost like one Pop and I had--though ours was a 2-door but close to same color.

http://www.burdastyle.com/albums/198/images?page=20&size=small

Love, Mom

On the Road Agenda

Today: Mass, appt., phone calls, errands, paper recycling, sewing...busy week ahead.

Week: Daily Mass, volunteering at rectory, attending a volunteer day retreat at SLC; will end following Mass and supper, last PT appt., Christmas play  at Cabaret in Old Town w/K and B, Spencer was invited to Pet Smart for Santa pics and meet up w/his old foster parents, Ladies Day at Tree Top Nursery.

We have 2 family members having surgery this week. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers for a successful surgery and  speedy, uneventful recovery.  Stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

Hey!

Just wanted to wish my dear ones a Happy Thanksgiving. Going on Non Blog mode until after the Holiday. Wanted you to all know you are in my thoughts and prayers.
Stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.
Love, Mom

Where is our Traveler?

Back from Mass, Chiro appt., and home to wait for road traveler coming in to spend the Holiday w/us. "Boys" are real excited---heard a couple of barks from the sprawling furry patches on the couch. Hopefullly, they'll   find it in themselves to kick it up a notch when our traveler arrives and do some more vigorous barking and moving.

Stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

Fall

                                                                   

 Mass, Football (watching), visit w/neighbors, reading, snuggling w/"boys" has been the weekend activity. Very cautious to watch KC Chiefs play today--K-State, KS, NE all lost their games---Lots of good games on the tube today. Plan to fire up the logs and settle in for some more of the above.

Sunny, cool, no breeze, really pretty here this AM. Trees still have a few leaves left in them but there is a wonderful carpet of color on the ground. Looking forward to nice travel weather for the Holiday.

Stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

Easy Does It

Mass, PT this AM,  laundry, sweep/dust, head to a movie this afternoon, eat out, and home to snuggle w/the "boys", reading/maybe view some DVR TV in front of the fireplace. Too cool to do too much in the yard today. Actually have most of winter prep completed. Now, I ask you--Easy does it--doesn't it? Mr T. is bringing over more mulched leaves today and may rope him into a movie and eats--We'll see.

Please stay healthy, safe, and in touch.

Love, Mom

Nuttin' New

Same ole stuff---taking a Blog break for the day.

Stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

Walking and Talking

Another great sunny day. Back from Mass and volunteering at the rectory. Plan to trim spent foliage, spread more leaves, do some filing, run errands, and anchor the Oak leaf hydrangea to an upright position...or putz and spread these tasks out throughout the week.

Will definitely get my daily walk in sans the 3 "dogmingoes" or better know as the "pooping canine machines." Too much to take all of them along on the walk and too guilty to leave any of them out.

Stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

Limbering Up and Putzing

Limbering up and getting ready for a great week.

Temperature 37 degrees, no wind, sky starting to lighten up----just looks like the start of a good day/week. Planning on daily Mass, some volunteering at the rectory/school, Chiro appt, tree removal, SLC class, PT later in the week, lots of yardwork, w/some reading/fireplace time thrown in. Then again, other than the scheduled stuff may just wing it and fly by the seat of my pants doing what I do so well ---PUTZING!

Stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

Stuff

Have finally caught up on some sleep--sure it is the time change---hope my clock catches up w/the time change. Really enjoyed the Interior Decorating event---lots of fun ladies sharing their Holiday decorating/not decorating ideas. Bought a nice metal/tile topped reading table and will pick it up after the Holidays (they had a display set up on it.) 

Up early this AM and off to 6:30am Mass at Blessed Sacrament. Air so nice and crisp, 33 degrees, no breeze. Talked to one of my favorite MN people on the way home, picked up a newspaper, put on some soup, and plan to sit in front of fireplace (w/chair full of "boys") reading and watching the Chiefs whip up on the Broncos today. 

Stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

OTD and DTR

Busy day planned--Off to a an interior shop this AM w/ BD friend for a "Tis the Season" presentation, featuring "7 tips to help you de-stress and actually enjoy the holidays." This is what she wanted to do so this is what we are doing. Thinking of bringing her back to the house afterwards, providing her w/a work outfit (jeans/flannel shirt/clogs) and showing her how to really de-stress by doing fall yardwork cleanup.  Plan to go to Mass this evening and later catch up on some reading by the fireplace.

Beautiful morning, cool (39 degrees), no wind, and everything still wet from the last two days of rain. The furnace actually came on this AM (set at 58 degrees). "Boys" raising their "voices" to tell me to come look at the deer in the back field.

Have a wonderful weekend, staying healthy, safe, and in touch.

Love,  Mom

Rocks, Leaves, and Fall

Rocks moved---Having another contest! If you can guess the number of rocks I moved from around the Silver Maple you will win free room/board at Ma's house and possibly a chance to help move those rocks  to another place as I threw them into the East pathway. Would have loaded them into the wagon but it is still full of top soil. Hmmmm, the contest winner should bring work clothes---looks like we might have a top soil spread also. Think about it---sitting by the fireplace, possibly playing cards, watching football, feeding the "boys" apples in the evenings after working your tail off all day in the yard.

Taylor brought more bags of mulched leaves yesterday. That guy ranks high on my "grand" son list. Hoping to get them spread before it starts raining.  Do not know if I have mentioned it this week but Fall is one of my favorite seasons.

Keep healthy, stay safe, and in touch.

Love, Mom

A Tree Goes

A tree may grow in Brooklyn but one is coming down in KS. Got a bid yesterday on tree removal and it should be OOTG by next Mon/Tues. Plan to move all the stones and mark the sprinkler heads  around the base of the tree later this afternoon. Ironic, the guy who is removing it worked w/Grandpa Ashpole/Pop and went to school/wrestled w/Pop. To top it off--Keith now works w/his daughter. Small world we live in.

Off to class at SLC this AM, Mass and home to work in the yard and play w/the 3 "Dogmingos."

Stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

More KS Fall Talk

More KS Fall in progress----the trees are phenomenal, every color you could imagine. Prairie Grasses also putting on quite a show. Planning on having someone remove the Silver Maple in the front yard. It has a split in the bark and also too prone to disease.

Mass this AM, volunteered at rectory, and catching up on some outside tasks---even though it is windy (35 mph gusts)--Grrrrr to the wind.

Have a healthy, safe day, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

Great Fall Weekend

                                                       WEEKEND:

Too windy to work in the yard. Baked, ate too much, reset all the clocks/watches, went to movie w/Ms Becky, fireplace in evening w/snuggling "boys." 

TODAY:
Mass this AM @ 6:30am, drove to Haven, KS for scheduled 8:00am car maintenance, back home for rest of the day. (even took a nap).

FOR YOU:
Stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.
Love, Mom

Pie, Bingo, Football, and Firelogs

Start of a good day. Thirty-one degrees, sunny, and no breeze. Mass at 7:00am, PT at 8:30am, and taking "boys" to groomer at 11:00am. I WILL HAVE 2+ WHOLE HOURS OF "MOM'S DAY OFF!!!!!! Planning on working in yard continuing winter prep, moving some plants, trimming, and spreading out mulched leaves on the pathway, moving some border rocks...

Planning on playing turkey bingo on Sunday afternoon at St Pat's, baking a pie on Saturday to take on Sunday, and making sure the Sunday football games are recorded before I leave to play Bingo. Have used the fireplace several evenings and am liking it---takes the chill off the air and so easy...

Stay healthy, safe, keep in touch and have a great weekend.

Love, Mom

Fall for Me

Having a great Fall here. Lots of colors, changing every day---have I told you Fall is my favorite time of year?----Hmmm---think I have. Mass this AM, volunteered at the rectory, washed a load of clothes, planning on running an errand and back home to dig into this untidy house. Too windy and cool to work out of doors.

Stay healthy, safe, and in touch.

Love, Mom

Blah, Blah, Blah

Off to Mass, volunteer at rectory, run a couple of errands, work in yard rest of day--spreading more mulching leaves, emptying/cleaning flower pots...

Stay healthy, safe, and in touch with one another.
Love, Mom

Thoughts

All Saints and All Souls Days (November 1st and 2nd) have such beautiful liturgical prayers for our saints and souls. Was reading this AM before Mass and wanted to share a quote from St. Ambrose: "We have loved them during life; let us not abandon them until we have conducted them by our prayers into the house of the Lord." 

Quiet weekend here. Planning on spending sometime w/Matt and T today,  having supper at Keith and Becky's this evening. Special BD this week, Matt leaves for the Navy on the 3rd, last Bridge class this week, "boys" go to groomer on Friday.

Stay healthy, safe, and in touch.

Love, Mom

Luv Fall

Now tell me----who could create and color nature better than God? This picture will help you better understand why Fall is my favorite season of the year. 

Visited w/friends yesterday AM, had lunch w/my "bud" Clarisse, came home and putzed inside the rest of the day. Enjoyed the evening w/more time reading and snuggling w/the boys in front of the fireplace. Have an exciting novel I am into (thanks, Linda) and limit myself to just a few pages/chapters so it will last longer. That is real self control--that is why I read it in the evenings---If I started in the AM, would sit, read all day and get nothing else done.

Plan Mass this AM, housecleaning, watching college football (TV) this afternoon and  the fireplace read thing this evening.  Have a great weekend---stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch. 

Love, Mom

More Fall projects

Thirty-eight degrees here this AM. Haven't turned the furnace on yet but have had the gas fire logs on a couple of times. Real nice--not to have to prep, e.g., clean out fireplace, carry sweeper upstairs to empty, carry firewood down the stairs, and constantly replenish the log rack on back patio area to assure dry firewood always available...Think I might just like the gas fire logs. Really took the chill out of the air.

Planning on visiting w/out of town friend this AM---we are going to attend a funeral for one of my old bosses. Please keep Dr. Ben Matassarin and his family in your thoughts and prayers.

Rest of day will be spent emptying and cleaning out flower pots/flower beds to get ready for winter storage. Then just may have another evening in front of the fireplace, reading, TV, and snuggling w/the pup posse.

Finish your day, stay healthy, be safe, keep in touch and for gosh sakes get out and enjoy this wonderful Fall weather.

Love, Mom

Biking

You've come a long way baby! From Mopeds to Bike w/kid carriage. Looking through pics this AM and remember saving this Moped Army pic. Couldn't resist putting these in the family blog today.

Mass this AM, volunteered at rectory and then home to have the last of the winterizing completed around the house today (Fall weed application to weeds and Fall insect extermination).

Cool, sunny day, slight breeze, and guess what??? The moon is still visible in the sky. Fall just may be my one of my favorite times of the year. Just want to be out of doors. Stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

Ma's Fall Flowers

Some more arbor Coleus, Silver lace vine--check out the Ajuga nestled in between the Gerbera Daisy foliage. Really a different kind of Ajuga; sorry I only bought 2 plants.

Bridge class last night and SLC class/Mass this AM. Call me "classy." One more week of bridge class, 4 more at SLC. This should do me fine until after Advent.

Windy, sunny, and cool here today. Planning on getting the sewing machine out to do some mending and probably sweep, tidy up the house, eating out this PM, and may settle in front of the fireplace for some TV and reading this evening.

Stay healthy, safe, and keep in touch.

Love, Mom

Flowers and Ma

Still more Fall pics. The Coleus, lace vine is growing in the arbor pot and the Marigold(s) are volunteers. Each Fall I deadhead the spent blooms and scatter them over the ground. Actually have to thin them out in the Spring. They like it here.

Got a mulched leave(s) special delivery from Taylor yesterday. The bags are in place and ready to spread. Also, got all the morning glory vines pulled/cut/cleaned off the fence and out of the ground.

Finally got the t-bar fence post painted and will stake up the Hydrangea plant today. Plan to go to Mass, volunteer at the rectory, and come home to catch up on Fall tasks.

The boys are moping this AM. There has to be a skunk in the back field (bad smell) and they are confined to the house this AM. The dog door is locked to keep the dogs in and the skunk out. Stay healthy, safe, and in touch.
Love, Mom

Ma's Day

Throw in some more Coleus, a bit of Lantana, some ornamental pepper , and you have more of pics of Ma's Fall plants.

Had supper last night at Keith/Becky's (chicken enchilada's and Coldstone ice cream) and have been promised the arrival of more mulched leaves. That is making my day exciting.

Weekend was quiet and nice. Hope yours was also. Have a great week---staying healthy, safe, and keeping in touch. Love, Mom