Sunday evening mellow

It's just after 6PM, I'm just out of the shower and I'm whupped. Mid-morning visit with Mom at the Pines that wasn't brief, let's say. Home by noon to let horses in. Managed to divert my attention elsewhere for 2 hours... newspaper, computer, maybe a card game or 2. Headed out to start my under-the-tree rings that I've been planning and plotting for 2 months or more. Edged all 3 tree rings, applied a 2"-ish layer of mushroom mulch then hardwood mulch, on top of a layer of brown paper bag. They look nice, very tidy. Too whupped tonite to transplant anything from the sunroom garden, but I expect that will be my first-thing-in-the-morning project.

I am *hoping* I have enough energy tonite to can some salsa... scoping out recipes. I don't like the way my favorite recipe salsa froze and thawed... live and learn, at least it was only one pint.

Insight from a Proverb

I'm 3 for 3 in reading a proverb a day (got the idea from my buds over at 18 Kids..). Today the message gently reached out and turned me by the shoulder toward the light: Always strive for kindness and truth and you will win favor with both God and people. Trust all decisions to God, large and small. Have faith that He will provide. Trying very hard with the kindness. Trying to place my decisions in His hands.

Mom's struggling through her post-knee-replacement recovery... hard to see how down. She's got to get through these next few weeks.

Evening

A good day today...

• My mom is "managing" post-op from knee replacement yesterday. It's painful! She's a tough lady and has certainly had experience managing discomfort.
• Mowed the larger half of the lawn.
• Made pan-fish chowder. Hope it has a wee bit more flavor than last week's batch. (Haven't tried any, yet. It actually takes awhile to make.) Maybe next time, I'll have some nice Honeoye Lake fishies, and not the frozen ones from WM. All the other ingredients are farm-fresh.
• Made up vitamins for the week.
  
• Read 2 Proverbs (today's, and tomorrow's). Felt good to crack my Bible back open, after not too much reading and study since the beginning of July. I'm reading from Max Lucado's Devotional Bible this month. The verse is soothing, not challenging, comprehension-wise.

Off to try some Chow-dah and watch some Touched by an Angel, then 18 Kids. I still have some feline hyperthyroidism to study, looking forward to that actually.

Hummingbird irony

Well I had a nice 30-minute workout with Bob Harper in my living room, and a sweet 10-minute cool-down with the vacuum cleaner. While winding up the cord, I noticed a hummingbird at my picture window... how ironic since I am planning to remove the hummer feeders today. My hummer experience got derailed slightly this summer when the poor things diddn't get fresh food at ALL while I was in Montana for 10 days. Even though I left a container in the fridge. But my caretakers didn't realize that was actually supposed to be used for the hummers. Bummer for the hummers. I think they packed up their tiny suitcases and started the move out. Have seen maybe 3 since, including the one just at my window.

My First Entry

I'm shaking my head... what's gotten into me? A Blog? What for? Who will read it? One more time-waster in a pretty intimidating stream of them? Oh well, for whatever reason or purpose, here it is.

HEY that's why I came up with the title... the Cathy Experiment. Not sure what form this will take or what it will look like when time passes.

I have to get out of my nightgown and bathrobe and put in a respectable workout. GOODBYE!