Posting again so soon? Wow!

Another fine day in the upper half of Minnesota! A little rain earlier, and then this evening I did some lawn mowing, which I'm counting as my exercise for the day. :) Day before yesterday (Tues.) I walked 2 miles with a very steep hill part. I'm feeling it in my gluts the last two days. Somehow I missed walking yesterday. It seems like days just whiz by and I look at my calendar and see I haven't walked, and I thought I did! Anyway, I'm doing pretty well in that department.

I joined a PAT swap (Pick-a-Theme). As you all probably know, that means that there are several groups of 5 people. The group I joined has to hand-draw/hand-paint their cards. Each person requests a certain theme. So, we each end up making four cards. One for each member except ourselves. These are what I ended up making.

While walking next door to Micah's today I spied these flowers. Never knew they were there before!

I picked three and left one to hopefully drop some seeds.

 I've never seen Columbines in this stage of making seed pods. So cool!

Right next to these was a little raspberry bush full of berries. Forgot to take a picture, but I ate one of the berries. I was saving the rest to show Nathan. :)

Today is Audrey's birthday. She's eight! I gave her a pretty illustrated book of Enchanted Stories by Usborne. She's been reading chapter books like crazy, but said she missed having pictures to look at. The book I gave her has beautiful illustrations and lots of well known stories like The Secret Garden and many others. I also found an I Spy game that they really were having fun with. This evening they were going to the county fair and out to eat. She's quite a gal!

I just finished reading this book:

I made the mistake of taking it along to the physical therapist today to read while he had me hooked up to one of his gadgets. I was sitting next to a young man, and I was having a hard time not laughing out loud. I figured Tom Bodett must be so old he had probably gone on to glory by now. But it turns out he was only 30 years old when he wrote this book in 1986! He's my age! I'm glad to know such a nice man is probably still alive and kicking in Homer, Alaska. I marvel at how a 30 year old could have so much wisdom!

I'm also reading this book, and really loving it.

Just goes to show, you can find some good stuff at the library book sale!

In other news, Josh's car is dead as a door nail. So, now to figure out what to do. He'll have to pay it off and get another car somehow. Thankfully, he doesn't seem as stressed as he was, now that all is revealed. He's looking into options. Prayers appreciated.

I visited my doctor about the continuing tingling in my left arm, which remains even though my shoulder feels better. He's arranging for an MRI to see what's up. Did I tell you this already? I'm still awaiting a call from the hospital to set up an appointment. Meanwhile, I'll continue therapy.I'm not in great pain or anything. They just don't think I should go around with a tingling arm, I guess, lol.

Well, that's all I really had to say at the moment. And when you've said all you have to say you should probably stop talking, right?  Ha ha!

Thanks for stopping by, fine people.
Much shalom to you all!