Good Morning!

Good morning, all!  How are things in your neighborhood this morning?  I seem to be having technical difficulties with blogger this morning.  I guess I have been gone so long that it is in shock.  What a pain.

A couple of weeks ago I bought a new iPad and a keyboard to go along with in anticipation of doing more blogging.  Well, for some reason, when I try to post a comment or respond to one, it no longer wants to let me put spaces between the words with the space bar.  Very annoying. I guess I will have to continue to fiddle with it to see if it is my iPad or blogger but I am not having any difficulties creating a post.  So…..hmmm.

I am not a gardener.  I love a beautiful yards and lovely flower beds but I am just not of the nature to create it.  We do have a few things that the previous owner had planted that I do enjoy.  So, here is a photo of the lovely lantana that comes up in all the flower beds every year.

That flower bed runs behind the breakfast area and it is full of lantana and purpose planted clover.  The clover is gorgeous early morning with its lavender flowers and when it is not blooming we have the lantana.  Unfortunately, after entertaining ourselves with feeding the birds, we also have sunflowers now.  I don’t like sunflowers.  But…..Trixie likes to smell them so until they die or Hubs yanks them out, I guess we have sunflowers.

Still reading “When We Believed in Mermaids” but almost finished.  I am enjoying it but it is getting more graphic as I go along and while not cringe worthy it takes me a bit out of my comfort zone.  Still a good read though and I am looking forward to the ending where all is revealed.  I do recommend it with the caveat that there are some things that might not sit well.  

Still working on Bean’s room.  I ordered a dust ruffle which I generally don’t like, especially on a day bed but it is here and washed and ready to be put on the bed which is what I am doing this morning.  Why don’t I like dust ruffles on the daybed, you might ask? The bed is hard to make up anyway, have to take the mattress off to change the sheets, and then the dust ruffle just gets all messed up and it is a struggle but it is a trundle bed and I need to cover the trundle so there you have it.  Then I am going to hang some more art and contemplate getting a new lamp.  However, the parrot lamp is staying where it is.  I will take photos when it is done.  

For months we have been struggling with Hubs glucose levels.  He is on a new medication which is helping and we are following the diet pretty well.  However, he loves to eat out.  Eating is out is trial and error — mostly error— and we are learning what he can’t eat without his blood sugar spiking.  Sandwiches.  They are bad.  Pizza.  Pizza for a diabetic is like a candy bar.  Rice.  Never going to happen in this house again which is really unfortunate because I like rice and it is the base for a lot of good recipes but any more than a couple of tablespoons has his sugar off the charts.  So, I am still learning a few good things — like avocado tacos.  So good.  So easy.  

So, now I am off to start sewing Girl Scout patches on a new vest.  Our sweet Bean bridged to a Cadette last month and she is now in khaki.  Daisy blue and junior green are a thing of the past and now we are in the most icky color there is but it will showcase all her patches really well.  She and her mother and another GS mother/daughter combo took a little patch excursion to Missouri to do the Little House on the Prairie tour.  They had a wonderful time but it was hotter than they thought.  They did veer off from the Little House exhibits and visited the St. Louis arch and they spent some time in Little Rock visiting Little Rock Central High School.  They had a wonderful time and are now planning to go to Minnesota to see more Laura Ingalls Wilder places.  Hopefully it will be cooler

Isn’t that house cute?  Isn’t Bean growing up?  My advice to young mothers — don’t blink! Before you know it they are 5 ft tall and wearing khaki!