Monday is just a word

Been on this plan for a while now....

Looked at the exercise today....

Said - what the heck! Go ahead and give it a try....

100 is just a number!

But when you accomplish 100 Dumbell Rows and 100 weighted step ups...

Well you feel - hot and sweaty and exhausted but accomplished...

No matter what happens from here today I know where I started and what I accomplished before 8 am!

Monday is just a word!

Sunday visits are fun

I love a surprise.

I had a planned practice session with my daughter today. Always nice to have a good client practice session with a good sense of humor thrown in there for comfort. I need to practice my Healing Touch technique and get the questions to a comfortable point and the listening peaked.

So I get people I know to lay still and I lay my hands on them and practice my gift. Works for me. I learn more each time I do this and I can see a pattern developing that I can continue along in comfort, naturally.

Back to the surprise. I got a phone call asking me to teach a friend and her friend how to knit Socks! How much fun is that going to be. I need the practice teaching (period) and what better way to teach sock knitting to teachers. This will be a fun experience. Win - win all around.

So many new doors openning and I just need to go on through them... interesting.

So there are no pictures today. Monday is suppose to be dry and sunny. This will be great for pictures... Lots of pictures... promise.

Maybe even the two turtles will be available for this photo shoot!

OK. Now all the emails I have ignored all day. A small meditation and then to bed...

Each day I learn to Let Go and Let God...

Sweet Dreams to you all.

JULY 4 OR WHERE DID THE TIME GO?

I know that time goes by in 24 hour intervals. I just stop sometimes and gasp at how fast they fly by and at times how painfully slow the minutes trudge along.

This has been a very good half summer.

I have read each day which was my resolution in January!

I have the garden as full as I want it. Room to walk between the plants and sit down if I so choose. The tomatoe plants are doing well but they would like night time temps about 70 degrees or more I am sure. The pepper plants are doing OK and the cucumber plant has been the star pupil already giving us two long cukes! I also have two turtles which surprised me a lot! Because I thought I only had one!

Today I planted in the garden three pots of starter basil plants, one Italian, One Thai, and one Kapro. Two will be for food and the third will be for tea. I have two jars of tea herbs almost full already! I have used the chipped wood from our yard for mulch in the herb section and it makes it look so quaint. It is just hiding clay mud but that is OK. The plants may disagree! Oh well! I used the grass that Fele pulled as mulch in another spot and have a few other mulch experiments going.

Still need to plant the fig tree!

Because this has been a coolish summer for the most part, we have been able to keep the windows open and the AC off. This is a help. Besides I do not feel like a prisoner in my own house with the windows open!

I have seem some amazing growth in my children over the last 6 months. The kind that makes your heart swell. I have seen some moments when slow and steady have paid off enormously. There is still some pain in their lives but for the most part they have made peace with it and accept it as part of the day.

I had a conversation with some new people last week and it was most refreshing. They actually paid attention to me and our conversation instead of ducking out to chat on a cell phone. It actually amazes me that I became accustomed to such rude behavior.

How open are my eyes now.

OK, One daughter requested photos of the garden. The rain stalled that process. Tomorrow.

I am going to practice my gift tomorrow. My intent will be to be focused on love. Unconditional love.

Sunday beckons.

One more circle of knitting and I will be on to the pattern of the sock!

Photos indeed!

Keeping a good thought that my friend who is visiting with her husband that returned from Iraq on Saturday is doing well! Got to be hard. Like a first date and honeymoon all at the same time. Peace to them I send.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

1. Eye exam - uneventful.
2. Seeds and plants - in soil and doing well. The garden even got a much needed weeding. Most seeds have shown up in the right place even though we have had lots of rain.
3. Cats are doing fine. Friend is doing OK too.
4. Socks need a few more rows.
5. Other socks are going to be late.
6. Read for Women's group. More to read.
7. Read for Healing Touch class. More to finish. Class this weekend and I am so ready to move on that I almost explode sometimes with enthusiasm...
8. Back on the diet and the exercise plan. Need to really focus on a way to make it more a life style and less like a "plan" that has a beginning and an end timeframe. I am sure the doctor on Monday will have words about that - seeing as my blood sugar levels over the last 3 months of chaos were terrible!
9. Packages mailed.
10. Cleaned a few more corners.
11. Looking forward and planning my next steps carefully.

TO DO

1 - Cat care this summer - remember to mark the calendar
2 - eye appointment - hope it is uneventful
3 - plant the plants in the garden and the seeds and the flowers
4 - collect all the stick and twigs for the chipper that now works
5 - relax in the pool
6 - read for Women's Group
7 - read for Healing Touch
8 - finish current socks
9 - start new set of socks for someone else
10 - wash the car

That is enough of a list for me - maybe when I get more than half done I will revisit the list and add more - right now this is fine with me.

I have this list going now because I cannot get on FB. First the computer demanded that it be scanned which took long enough that I could do a complete chakra connection on myself. Now the phishing filter is scanning for phish!

I need to go to bed because I am tired and I cannot get a good eye exam when I am tired.

Did I mention a crown fell off my tooth today? Went to bite into a brownie and there it was... So I will fit that into the list behind eyes and before clean the car... should work just fine!

have a great night!

mud makes me happy and other misc thoughts

I wonder why digging in dirt and planting things in that dirt make me so happy.

I am most content when either planting or grooming or just being in the garden. It is a very hallowed place for me. Must remember to bring in some soil to plant things in this winter. The fact that February is my worst month may have something to do with deprivation from mud!

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OK

So my daughter has this great discovery posted on her FB site!

Drama Button

if that does not work it is: www.dramabutton.com

Drama Button... For all of life's unnecessary drama. This is a fun and humorous way to compliment the epic moments in life.

How many millions of times could I have used that? Mentally I have played it over and over again - usually followed by an audible sigh!

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gardening in the light of the moon and stars is the best!

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love covers hate like paper covers rock

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going to bed when you are tired shows a lot of maturity - I wonder if I will ever arrive at that point?

Miscellaneous thoughts are rather random

• I have reconnected with three friends over the last 60 days that I have not seen or visited with in three years.
• The young call this "reconnecting" networking! I call this joy.
• These friends and I shared like we talked yesterday. Very good and very odd.
• One friend is moving to NC because her husband took a job there. Good travels my friend.
• An evening in the garden fixes just about everything.
• Digging clay is hard work but turning a new leaf is no easier.
• Validation is important. I am calm when explaining myself and my dreams, which is new for me as they have always been a bit oblique in the past. Now my dreams and paths are clear and open and can easily be articulated.
• Intense must be a mandate for me - I always seem to find intense situations into which to jump
• New horizons await my next steps and I feel like the horizon line is very close
• I discovered just how twisted some situations really are today and the whole thing left me with a rather sick stomach
• I have two friends in the service. One in Iraq and the other in Afganistan. Soon to have a third. One comes home in the late summer. One just went over and the third reports for duty in July. Brave and noble men, all three and I pray for them without ceasing.
• Someone said "no pain, no gain." they should feel my legs right now. I think I have gained the world
• The toads "peeping" in spring is the most important sound of the entire natural cycle
• I have a box turtle living in my garden
• The compost piles are cooking
• I emptied my worm bin into one of my compost piles to hasten the process
• Lots to do - so to make it simple - we will make a list and pick the five most important things to accomplish and let the rest be as they will. We cannot recapture yesterday - we can only live today.
• I am finished with these random thoughts and my hands want a rest from work.

Sleep well my friends, sleep well.