Another week has come and gone

Hello Folks ~ Here it is the start of another week. Today makes day 48 since I've left the property. Our 'self-isolation' period has been prolonged until May 31. I am so thankful for blessings this past week.

Had a friend, Sandy, call while I was talking with another friend, Rita, she left a msg. Rita and I had been talking about food and I told her I had a craving for fresh veggies. Well, when I called my Sandy back, she asked me would I like a blessing of fresh veggies. I could hardly believe it. I told her I had just mentioned craving them to Rita. God knew and he had answered my craving before I even voiced it.

I cooked up the corn, and it is sweet. Think I'll make a corn/potato chowder with the rest, stretching it out. With the cucumber and tomatoes I plan to make a salad, adding kalamata olives and some gargonzola cheese.

 

The next day Rita called me up and said she wanted to gift me a 6 pack of toilet paper, a box of kleenex, plus a Wendy's drive thru lunch, cheese burger, fries and lemonade. The day before we had been talking about toilet paper, and while I still had 4 rolls, 3 double layer, and one single layer, I said I was counting my sheets. Three for p, more for the other, two to blow my nose and one for my watery eyes. We both were laughing, but she felt compassion for me doing that.

While talking with Rita on the phone about her coming over, I had a fire truck and then a power truck out front. I had been hearing electrical pops, thought it was a palm frond hitting the hot wire along my driveway, but it wasn't. It was the neighbors trees along the road side by their apts. Sometimes single pops and then other time a continuous string of them. I called 911 finally because of fear of fire starting, (had that happen before, small, but still scary, especially as it was a windy day.) They sent out a fire truck and called the power company. The power company came, to take care of tree limbs and the fire truck left. The man from power company said they hadn't seen anything, but he heard and saw the sparks flying. He took care of the problem and I thanked him.

I then called Rita telling her she could come and she did a stop and drop. Oh my what a treat.

I walked around picking flowers for a bouquet to give her. What a joy it was doing that. Pictures below from different angles.

On the phone the day before I had told her I had baked a loaf of oatmeal bread in my machine. She groaned and said "are you trying to make me jealous?" So, I decided to give her half of it.

I baked another loaf yesterday afternoon, and oh my the aroma that fills this place is so wonderful.

I am thankful to Mary for once again picking up and delivering groceries with a smile yesterday.

This past week I worked outside on clearing a path on the east side of main garden. Forward progress.

Now for some more blooms. Miss Joachim vanda orchids.

 Next we have 'tropical hydrangea'.

 This is 'frangipani'. I have an all pink variety that I've had for years and years. A friend had given me 4-5 cuttings and I just stuck them in the ground. They are always a treat when they bloom. This particular plant I bought a couple of years ago.

Below is 'sandpaper vine, or queens wreath vine'. Since I can't grow wisteria, I found this tropical vine. I think a gardening friend gave me a cutting, it's been years ago and this is the first year that it's done this well. I love it. On the other side of this arbor I have the garlic vine growing. I need to tie this down to the arbor.

Here's a close-up of the blooms.

Below is the mandala pattern 'Sophie's Universe' that I've been working on.  The past couple of days I've had to pull out different rows several times as I hadn't gotten them right. Not carefully reading the directions is the cause. I'm so thankful I bought this book so that I don't have to sit in front of my computer looking at the directions online. I had let this project sit for awhile as I just didn't want to get involved. Below is where I had left off after making a mistake and having to rip out a row.

 Below is after working on it over the past couple of days.

 Here's a closer look. Overlaying stitches is fun, but you do have to count and pay attention.

Ok, that's it for now. Remember to take things easy. Find something that you enjoy doing, try to get 10 minutes of fresh air each day. Eat as well as you can, get sleep. Let others know you care about them and love them. Give encouragement, keep negativity out of your life.
Let us help others when and where we can, and keep each other in prayer.

I want to say thank you to family and friends for love, support and encouragement. Thank you to all of the bloggers and you-tubers posting positive blog and vlog posts, beauty where they are, music to make our hearts sing, to comfort us during this time, for devotionals and spiritually uplifting words to build our faith and hope.  Thank you to the fire dept for sending out a truck in case of fire, and for the power company coming out and taking care of the problem. 

We will get through this. Things won't be the same, they will be different. May we learn to grow with change and be thankful all along the way.

God is in control and He loves us deeply.

Here's a prayer I want to share with you.

May you feel the comforting love of Jesus surrounding and flowing through you,
FlowerLady