Monday Blessings

I love the blessings of an 'ordinary' day. 

Ordinary days are actually rather extraordinary. 

I took Louis Dean to his primary care doctor for a routine visit this afternoon.

I love 'routine.' No unexpected surprises. Other than he had gained one pound.

He was in and out in less than 45 minutes.

He is done with doctor appointments for the time being!

Next primary care visit will be in June and next cardiologist will be in September.

YES!! Thank you, Lord!

We celebrated by going to the center and walking.

Routine. I love it!

Louis Dean went in and took a nap as soon as we got home while I gathered up my gardening shoes and tools and went out to the front yard to work for awhile.

I had a manicure last week and yet I was digging in the dirt pulling up weeds with no gloves on!

Note to self - buy new gardening gloves!

We have a yard guy that does everything but pull weeds in the flower beds.....which have less flowers and more ground cover with each passing year. This is on purpose as I get older.

The fact that we hire getting the lawn done is amazing since we are such do it yourself kind of people. Still, the weeding can only be done by hand.

This may be a wildflower or a weed.......but whatever it is needs to go.

It is swarming over the small rose bushes and seems to be invasive as it is covering a lot of ground.

It pulls up rather easily by the roots where I can find them. It's grown up through last year's mulch and I just pulled up what I can. One more session tomorrow afternoon should finish this task.

It was a beautiful day - though just a tad chilly which was perfect to me.

Some of the lights had gone out on the porch. We intend to take everything down, repaint and Louis Dean is going to put an old bed spring up on the porch roof to hang my grapevines and lights on. But not yet.....probably this summer. The springs are in the back yard and I am going to spray paint them and have them ready. So I went ahead and put up fresh new lights. I like the warm whites but I somehow bought a string of cool white by mistake. I need to go out and see what they look like in the dark.

I'm grateful I can get down on my hands and knees to pull weeds.

I'm grateful that Louis Dean is still so strong and healthy at 82.

I'm grateful for the life God has given me.

 I'm grateful for my family and friends.

I'm grateful for this Blog Community we have and the blessings of friendship.

I'm grateful for the people who have prayed for me and mine and for the ones I have the privilege to pray for.

Someday I am going to look back on this day and I'll be grateful for it all over again.