I really have to do better than once a year and I promise that I will. It has been an eventful year in so many ways. Even though I have been retired for two years, I have stayed on the board of the SDCTE and presented a session on poetry in February at the state convention. Then, on my return home, I slipped on ice in the driveway, broke my tibia, had surgery, a metal plate and four screws. Since I left the hospital in a wheel chair, my next stop was 2 and a half months in a nursing home. This was an enriching experience as I met many fascinating people with great stories. I still go to the nursing home to visit them several times a month. In addition I have a marvelous friend whose 93rd birthday we celebrated last Saturday. This is a fascinating woman who has had an incredible life.
I also managed to get my yard looking great and my house cleaned and organized with the help of three young teenagers. We lost a 75 year old elm in our front yard last summer. replaced it with a 25′ autumn blaze maple. This changed my shady front yard to a bright sunny garden, which mean replacing many of the plants I had planted there. We replace many of the perennnials last summer and now they are all blooming beautifully, mostly because we have had the snowiest winter and the rainiest summer in recent history.
Have been trying to convince my husband that a nice winter somewhere sunny would be just the ticket, but he doesn’t want to leave the house unwatched that long and all of our close neighbors head to Ariz. in November. We’ll see what happens.
So it is time that I start thinking of how to really use this blog for something other than a journal and start developing some deep thoughts here.
