Haven't been on in awhile, summer gardening keeps me busy among other things. The good news my garden has been the easiest to take care of this year because of planting more perennials and mulch,mulch and mulch some more.

The bad news this year is that my son had a quadruple by pass surgery. Good news is he's going home tomorrow. We pray for completed healing and that he follows the doctors instructions.

Great-grandson thriving, walking and 4 teeth and he just turned ten months old.

Grandson went back to college. I hope he has a good year.

I'm sure there's more I could report but that will do for now.

Spring

Where did the time go? Last post written was in the fall putting my garden to sleep. Now it's a new season and the plants and weeds are waking up. The older I get the longer it takes me clean up and plant . Little by little. I did get a bonus this year, my son Chris, his wife Deb and my grandson Theo came over Sunday and in 2 1/2 hours they accomplished what it would have taken me a month to do.
Have a rock garden that was very overgrown with runaway snow-on-the-mountain, so much so you could not see the rocks. These are very special rocks, they come from Poland and were used in a grotto of a church until the grotto was dismanteled. Many years old and handed down from one generation to the next. I call them Toofer rocks-not sure about that but that's what they go by.
They also dug out a bunch of day-lilies that are very evasive and hard to get rid of. After the edging of the bricks outlining my garden pine mulch was spread. Smells so good. With that done it was time to treat for lunch. Culvers for their butter burgers, fries,a drink and their famous custard sundaes.
Today I planted the last of the annuals-moss roses bought at the farmer's market a couple of weeks ago. Now it's time to sit back and enjoy until the weeds start coming up again.
I hope I blog something before fall sets in.

Welcomed the new year with a new title-great-grandma. Also posted a picture of the GeeGee, bigger than I wanted on this post, but have to figure out how to reduce this photo. The little guy is Kenneth-Kenny and lives in Ohio.
It's a very gray day in Michigan, I'm waiting for the big snow coming my way, 4 to 6 inches. I'm just glad I don't live further west where it's sooo cold and lots and lots of snow. This too shall pass-the spring catalogs are coming out already!

Told you November would fly by! I hope all that stumble on to my blog had a nice Thanksgiving. I had two dinners- -The first with my granddaughter and the extended family of her friend. Very nice. The next dinner was spent up north with my son, daughter-in-law and grandson. This son is the gourmet cook, and we had a delicious meal. Now it's looking forward to Christmas and the madness of the shopping and decorating, or cutting down on the madness. I like to keep the spiritual aspect of Christmas alive. I dislike the " Happy Holiday" greeting, it's "Merry Christmas". Isn't Christmas celebrating the birth of Christ? Why do we let a few people dictate what we can say or not say? It's Merry Christmas from me to you. Sorry if I offend you, I like to think I'm respectful of other faiths and how they celebrate, but leave my Christmas alone.

Well, it's November and before you know it will be Thanksgiving. So far this month has been quiet. I did go to see" The King and I " presented by an amateur group that did a very professional job. The singing and costumes were fabulous. A friend and I have seasonal tickets and we make a day of it by going to the theater and dinner after. We visit Restaurant.com and purchase a coupon for some good local restaurant. This time for $6.00 we were able to buy $25.00 off a total bill that equalled $35.00 for the two of us. Not hard to do. The food was delicious too.

On a different note, I'll be spending Thanksgiving with my grandaughter and new great-grandson, plus alot of other family members :) I still have to learn how to put pictures on my blog, I want to show off little Kenny.

It's been awhile since I blogged. Time flies when you're having fun or getting older. Speaking of getting old , I am now a great-grandmother to a little cutie Kenneth Michael. Visited with him and his Mom yesterday, he's so precious, and he's only two weeks old. That's the biggy for October.

Another first, a friend and I went to West Virginia the second week in October. The colors were beautiful. I never paid attention to where West Virginia ended up in the north, sandwiched between Pennsylvania and Ohio. It's very mountainous with alot of bridges crossing the Ohio River (I think it was the Ohio).

Another first , I joined an exercise class for the older generation, low impact. I can't believe how good I feel after the class-just raring to go. Guess we're never to old to try something new.

I need to learn how to post pictures so I can show off my great-grandson.

It'll probably be November before I post again with Thanksgiving staring us in the face!