Mid Week Happenings

Hi there!

Happy New Year's Eve!

Are you all planning on partying, or just taking it easy?  I think we will be in bed long before the midnight hour.  

I finally got a good night's sleep, and so I am playing catch up on all I intended to do yesterday.

I made Tillie and Barley some peanut butter dog cookies, while Ben went to the grocery.  He then took off again to go do his priestly duties, and to visit some parishioners.  Ben in his "retirement," has taken on a small congregation that needed a consistent  priest every Sunday, rather than  different one  substituting each week. He only works Wednesdays and Sundays, so he has the rest of the week to do his thing, which usually includes cycling as often as he can.  If it's too cold out, he rides his trainer in the basement.

  Tomorrow , he intends to follow his tradition of riding New Years Day, regardless of the temperature outside.   More power too him.  It's his therapy, so it's great for him to get outside an fly like the wind.

  My eldest son and his wife are coming for a brief visit over the weekend, so I have to clear out all of my shop things out of their room.  I have just been stashing things in there, so as to keep the clutter out of my studio/sewing room. It consists of two large tables, a computer desk and chair and two bookshelves, all kinda crammed in, so that there is barely enough room to turn around.  It functions though.

 I am ready to get a quick bite to eat, then back to sewing some more things for my

 shop.  Please drop by my shop after the first of the year.  I will hopefully have lots of new and different things posted.  www.peonylane.etsy.com

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugs, Mary

Tuesday's Musings

Hello again!

Today was a real drag-it was me dragging my body, and trying to stay awake.  I couldn't get to sleep the night before until 2 am.  My brain just wouldn't shut down.  I ended up having to take a Lunesta, and finally got to sleep.  When I woke up, and finally attempted to get things done, I was in a fog.  It finally lifted about two in the afternoon, after several cups of tea.

Last night, Ben and I went to our local Gilda's Club.  If you are not familiar with Gilda's, it is an organization founded by Gilda Radnor's husband Gene Wilder, after Gilda succumbed to ovarian cancer and died.  It is a place where cancer patients and their friends and families can come and be together and talk , eat, play, or participate in support groups.  It's not counseling, it is just a group of people that are going through their own cancer journeys, and everyone can relate, because we all understand where they are or have been.

 We are very fortunate to have had a Gilda's Club in Nashville, and then to have one in Louisville too.  Ben is a two time cancer survivor.  First with prostate cancer 7 years ago, then two years ago with metastatic melanoma of unknown origin.  We spent all of last year traveling back and forth to MD Anderson Cancer in Houston.  Ben qualified for a clinical vaccine trial there.  He spent the year going to Houston every three weeks for his vaccines and scans.  The trial ended in August, and so far, so good.  He remains in remission, and we pray he stays there.  We go back quarterly for now, the next trip being in February.  Thank goodness for Southwest Airlines.  We have become best friends with them because of all our trips to Houston.

When we came home from Gilda's, I got in bed, and finally got sleepy, after looking through several seed catalogues that had come in the mail.. Already thinking about what to plant in this years garden! 

Oh! I almost forgot-how sleepy of me!  It was not the Broncos, but the Colts, that beat the socks off the Titans on Sunday!  I guess I was so upset at their loss, I wasn't thinking straight.  I must have had horses on my mind, and one of my son's lives in CO,  and is a Broncos fan.  Didn't make a difference in the end results though!

More tomorrow.

  Hugs, Mary