Flowers

These are some flowers around our house.  If I could spell the names I would say what they are but----  I am thinking brother Dave will be taking close ups like this with his new camera and with that ND weather it may be soon!  I can hardly wait to see some of his pictures.

It appears as if summer is coming early to many places.  Here it was 88 yesterday and I think in the Twin Cities it was in the 60s.  Way to warm for March 13 but then will anyone complain?

Terry and I woke up too too early this morning.  As I blog she is reading a book in bed.  I have checked for the paper several times but it is not here yet.  Those darn paper carriers, one could never depend on them!!  I have tennis at 7:30 this morning.  I played at the same time Monday and I know that it is just barely light enough at that time but the temp is so nice compared to afternoon.  Terry has tennis at 10:30 and it will probably be warm then.

We picked up our cushions for the kitchen yesterday and they look very nice.  We plan to sand and stain today and then it will be as done as it will get until next fall when we bring the trim back.  The lady who sewed made a mistake on the roman shade so she will redo it.

We received the not good news of Jerry Wind.  He has been battling kidney failure for some time and had hoped to put off dialysis.  It is complicated but with his accident a year ago and the healing that takes place--I can not and need not try to explain but the bottom line is his kidneys did shut down and he is currently in the hospital for a port and then a couple of days to heal and some dialysis.  A transplant is down the road soon and then hoping the dialysis can stop of course.  Some times it is difficult to understand why things happen the way they do but of course we trust in the Lord and live as best we can.

We are having our next door neighbors over for dinner tonight.  They have a home near Toronto and will be leaving in a couple of weeks. 

I got my tennis racket restrung yesterday.  My elbow and arm have been hurting and the tennis pro thought it might help to get softer strings and a damper on the bottom.  When I play this morning I am in a win win situation.  If I win I can say I knew my racket needed an upgrade and so that is why I won but on the other hand if I lose I can say I just am not used to these new strings!!!  Actually we will play doubles.  One of the guys is quit good and is about 6 feet 6 inches.  It seems like he has a reach about as wide as a 747 so one has to try strategy on him.  I am not very good at it but it is fun.  It could almost bring me back to the 50s when I would clear the south barn yard smooth, throw the rubberized ball againist the barn and make believe I was Johnny Logan or if it popped up I could catch it like Hank Aaron.  My strategy was always perfect when I played like that.  Maybe I am too old to fantasize but then I think if one can not fantasize maybe one is too old to enjoy life.  Actually I do still fantasize that I am good in tennis!!!!!!

My french press coffee seems extra good this morning---maybe that will spill over to an extra good/fun tennis match.

We did get in a 17 mile bike ride over the weekend.  We rode south and east to a neighborhood we had not been in before.  It was so interesting to see the different houses.  I am guessing that there were houses that would sell for 200,000 and houses that would sell for 1,000,000++ next to each other.  Fun to ride by and look.  We are looking forward to doing some bike riding when John/Mary and family come in April.  I think we will need to rent one bike and a carrier for Audrey and then we will have enough for everyone to ride.

We have 4 birthdays in the family this month.  Amy started things off the 12th, Mary's is the 16th, Terry's son in law Dave on the 22nd and Terry's son Brian on the 26th. 

Naples has a big St. Patrick's Day parade so we will go downtown Saturday for that.  It lasts about 90 minutes or more.  We need to get there early and find a place by some cute cute kids because they always get a lot of candy thrown to them.  I find that my hands are really quick in those situations!  Really, you do not believe I would do that--well.

The paper finally came and I brought it into Terry.  She had turned off the light so maybe she can go back to sleep.  I hope so as I think she woke up about 2:30 or so. 

The coffee is gone and the mind is empty.