August 18, 2013 932am

We are on the way to church with Michael and Maryjane. They are taking their own car cos they have their big doggy who takes up the whole back seat. It's so awesome to be here with our friends. We have a new ability hnow that Willem and Michael have retired, they can hang out together while MJ and I hang out.

 

I'm so blessed to have her for a friend. I'm so lessed to have such a patient husband. I'm so blessed to have a temple recommentd. It's a very fragile thing, just one slip up and you can lose your recommend.

Aug. 15, 2013, 3 pm five soap batches total

I made two more batches of soap today. Tea tree and woodland. I put green food colouring into the woodland, but it turned brownish pink. Guess there is blue in the green, which turned pink. So that means I now have five five-pound batches of soap. Vanilla, Lavender, Rose, Tea tree, Woodland

 

The Rose contains olive and vegetable oils as well as some coconut oil and food colouring water, lye

The lavender contains lavender buds and oatmeal, vegetable shortening and coconut oil, colour, w, l

The vanilla contains vegetable shortening and coconut oil, water, lye

The Tea tree contains some green tea leaves, vegetable shortening and coconut oil, water, lye

The woodland contains vegetable shortening, coconut oil and food colouring, water, lye

Aug. 15, 2013, 4:30 pm dump

I went to the dump while I was waiting for the lye and oils to cool. I found a juicer, a toaster oven and a cover for it to protect the cupboard above it, a stainless steel wok with a lid and a curtain the same colour as the living room drapes.

 

There were a million people there shopping. I saw Ankaret, Jennifer, Shirley and Gloria. It sure is a nice spot to visit, I must say.

 

There isn't anything too important in the metal pile, so I'm not missing picking from it! No lovely porch swings or anything!

 

I made a couple of videos while I was there, too.

Aug. 15, 2013 5:45pm

I'm kinda missing travelling. Being with Willem is nice, but I miss meeting up with all my YouTube friends. It's been 4.5 months. L LOL.

 

I'm lying in the hammock in Sumac Hill. The branches are all much farther above me than they were last year. I wonder if that's because of the water, or if it has just been growing this much every year. Perhaps all the rain.

 

It's so nice to lie in my hammock again. There have been so many bugs I've not been able to lie down much at all!

 

Willem got worn out today, first helping me with my planting, then helping Rolene move.

Aug. 14, 2013 2 pm perennials, D.s

We had a busy day today. I had the stress test in the morning. My heart attack was five years ago now. I went for nine minutes and got my heart rate up to 152, but it didn't stay up there, it kept dropping back down, I'm in such great shape! Round is a shape! LOL.

 

Willem had a chiropractor appointment in the meantime. He came back and heard Dr. LeGrande's assessment. Pretty interesting doctor.

 

We came home afterwards. Willem helped me to plant a lot of perennial daylilies that I'd not been able to get done yesterday, I was so exhausted and in a lot of pain by the time I came inside. So they are all in now, but there aren't 20 of them. I paid for 20, but only got 17, so they said I could come back and get the missing ones.

 

So I went to the clinic for my TB test to be read, then we went to the perennial place. We chose four more with lovely flowers on them, but some weren't labelled.

 

We went over to Peggy and Tony's. They were babysitting the most darling grandchildren! We visited with them, had a meal and hung around afterwards till after dark. I was late going to bed, but got up at the usual time. Not a good plan!

 

August 18. 4:25 pm

My laptop is going to die.

 

425pm

Ash meadow lane

I think I'd like to lie down with a paper and pen, a notebook and pen and just write. I love to write in a journal. We're staying at Maryjane and Michael's. We went to church with them this morning. I like their little branch. It's a nice group of people.

 

I liked the lessons and the talks.

 

My laptop is about to die, but if I had an extension cord I could use it from this hammock longer. It's a lovely hot dy today. It's a nice spot out here with chairs and a table and the two hammocks. They have really been using it since I put the hammocks up here. I'm so glad! It's in ash trees that could be dying, judging by the amount of dead brnhes on the tree at the moment. The ash borer is getting them.

 

When my laptop dies I'm going to go get my iPod and lie here reading the scriptures with it. I haven't been stuying them much at home. I' glad we study the at church. I have to vaccuu out my cd player in the car so I can play Preach my Gospel again. It's such a great book. I wonder if there is an app for it.. That would be good to have if there is.

 

There is nothing like bbeing outside in the shade on a warm day. In the sun on a cooler day is good, but today it's 29C, I think. I'm glad we're here.

 

Mjs friend is over for a few minutes. I'm a bit worried about these straps holding me up properly in the hammock. I'm very aware of the huge aount of weight ive been carrying around with me everywhere.

Putting 70lbs in a bad and then removing two cups of it whenever I lose a pound would be a great idea.

 

I did some yoga yesterday. It felt good to stretch. I'm trying to do the knee thigh stretch. I never knew that my hip joints awere so low on my hips. I always measured my hips at the largest part of my hips, so to find the joint is at thebottom of the hips is kinda strange. Where the dent is in your skin. So strange.

 

So the joints are pretty seized up. I'm trying to loosen the up so I can sit crosslegged on the floor.

 

Bucket list goal is to make a grass basket with the African women in a village on the ground. I 'll have to be able to sit on the ground to do that!

 

I'd like to bring my violin out here and play in the woods. It's kind of an oasis of trees in the fields.

 

The meadowhawks are the dragonflies that are flying around now.

 

I guess I'll go plug my laptop in inside and bring out the violin and the iPod and make a video.

 

Aug. 15, 2013 10 am Daylilies

Willem helped me with the 4 new daylilies this morning. He brought them out of the car for me and put them by the holes I'd dug earlier this morning. I filled the holes with water, divided two clumps with his help and he put them in the holes and covered them up for me, the bending is the hardest part for me.

 

I am so pleased with the lovely flowers we have blooming on the daylilies now. They are quite beautiful!