Blossoms

100 years

2012-05-19T16:31:14Z

Today we are driving over to Cincinnati to attend a party in honor of Helen Rotte's 100th birthday! She is the mother of our friend Gloria Worth. I first met Helen about 25 years ago here in Indianapolis - she and Gloria's dad would visit frequently, and I got to know Helen quite well over the following years. She became a widow in 1994, but pushed forth into her next phase of life with a vigor and vim to continue enjoying each day given to her. It has truly been a pleasure to become her friend and get to know her!

Happy Birthday Helen ~ may you bless this earth with many more years!!!

Mushing Up North

2012-05-09T02:24:47Z

Steve and I are going up to Minnesota tomorrow for a week's visit - he with his dad, and me with my folks. Looking forward to seeing lots of family and being with my mother on Mother's Day for the first time in many, many years!

I also like Ben

2012-05-05T16:20:45Z

The Noble Nature

     It is not growing like a tree
     In bulk, doth make man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere:
          A lily of a day
          Is fairer far in May,
     Although it fall and die that night--
     It was the plant and flower of Light.
In small proportions we just beauties see;
And in short measures life may perfect be.

~Ben Jonson~

Sunday

2012-04-30T00:31:27Z

The weeks just whiz along, and I am behind my time on writing entries here. Each day brings so many tasks - planned and unplanned - that I can hardly believe that 24 hours can pass so quickly! Better than being bored I guess.

I got a lovely "Red Dawn" Japanese Maple tree, about five feet high, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art Spring Plant Sale last Sunday. It is now planted in the space where we had to have a huge Colorado Spruce cut down last year. Also in that space are two Black Haw Viburnums that I got for free at the Nora Community give away last Saturday. Tomorrow starts the plant sale at the student greenhouse at The Indiana State School for the Visually Impaired - Gloria and I will be there at noon when it opens! And so it goes with the season's outdoor activities for me!

Steve has started P/T for core strengthening in hopes of alleviating some of his back and leg pain. That is twice a week, and he is also doing daily exercises at home.

April 26 was my Grandma Evenson's birthday. Alice Amanda Sunde Evenson would be 117 years old, had she lived. As it was, she blessed us all with 88 years on this earth. She was truly one of God's most wonderful creations and I cherish the memory of her.

Looking forward to the month of May and all that it will bring!

It's huge!

2012-04-18T01:58:56Z

Went over to our new church this morning - it is under construction, and scheduled to be finished by the middle of June. I have to say that it is very impressive, and very large. The new library is probably 3 times larger than the present one with lots of shelving and room for adding hundreds of books. We will even have a small workroom with counterspace and cabinet storage.

Our friend Steve Worth has been church "overseer" on this project and he has done an impressive job. He not only is well qualified, he is in his glories to be dealing with all things related to construction of a church.

Dedication of this new facility is June 24, and that will be a sad day in a way. We have 33 years of memories at our present location, and those won't be forgotten any time soon!

..that blue is all in a rush with richness...

2012-04-11T21:15:42Z

This morning for my ladies devotions group we looked at the life of Gerard Manley and several of his poems. We had a wonderful discussion time and we all learned alot from sharing our thoughts of his wonderful work. One of the poems we read and meditated on was "Spring"...

Spring

Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 - 1889

Nothing is so beautiful as Spring -

When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;

Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush

Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring

The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;

The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush

The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush

With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.

What is all this juice and all this joy?

A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning

In Eden garden. - Have, get, before it cloy,

Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,

Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,

Most, O maid's child, thy choice and worthy the winning.

Sprouted

2012-04-10T03:18:15Z

I planted morning glory seeds on April 5, and today they are up and have already formed a split leaf!

Only thing is...there is a freeze warning out for tomorrow night,so the tender little shoots will need a blanket - ha!

Glorious Day

2012-04-09T02:46:36Z

Matthew posted this on his Facebook wall, and it is a perfect scripture for today...

"By His stripes we are healed."

Isaiah 53:5

Turkey Run

2012-04-08T02:41:52Z

We spent several days this week with Delaney and Ella over at Turkey Run State Park. It was our fifth year in a row to make this Spring Break trip and it was as much fun as ever! Seeing the ancient hemlocks, deep sandstone canyons, beautiful spring wildflowers and the wonderful variety of birds is always a treat.

The growing season is upon us, a few weeks earlier than usual - and that means plenty of outside time in the flower beds and enjoying the warmer weather! Turkey Run was a great way to greet spring!

Paradise lost

2012-03-15T22:47:45Z

We arrived back home in Indiana this afternoon, and while oddly enought the temperature is around 80 degrees, that is the only comparison we can draw between here and Oahu.

Quite honestly, for us it is "Paradise Lost".....

No wonder it is so green

2012-03-05T20:12:16Z

We have been here on Oahu for nearly 2 weeks now and today is the first rainy day we have had. By that I mean it is just pouring outside, and it is supposed to be like this all day long...so it is a great time to catch up on writing postcards, paying bills online, finishing a book I am reading, do laundry etc etc

Aloha...

A Special Day

2012-02-16T15:07:58Z

Big Birthday Wishes go out to my dad today! Roger Wilbur Cherrington was born at home in Freeborn, Minnesota on this very day in 1925 to Warren and Ruth, their fifth and final family addition! The story that my Grandma C would tell about his birth his was that he was such a tiny baby, his head fit into a coffee cup and he slept in a shoebox. Now, I have to wonder if the coffee cup and shoebox were both of the extra-large variety, but it always made a good story nonetheless!

Happy Birthday Daddy and many more returns of the day!!

Thank you Mr. Shakespeare

2012-02-14T16:05:04Z

Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Doldrums

2012-02-09T16:35:29Z

Seems like that is where I am at right now, the low time of the year. Winter has never really arrived and spring isn't quite on the horizon. I am having to push myself to get at all of the necessary work and projects here at home, and have found lots of rationalizations to avoid them altogether!

Thank goodness I do have the wonder of Hawaii to look forward to and not much longer either! We leave on February 22 and the sun and warm temperatures will be a tonic!! When we return it will be nearly time to think of outside gardening time and that is something to ease the transition back to the midwest!

One bit of news, yesterday in her Biology class Delaney fainted and got sick while attempting to dissect a worm!! (at first we were told it was a cow's eye, but it actually was a worm) When Taylor went to school to fetch her, he said she was completely white! I am happy to report that by late afternoon she was feeling back to herself. I do hope that if she is required to do more dissections, the teacher will have her sitting down on a chair!

Catching up

2012-02-02T23:10:11Z

The past several weeks are a blur it seems, and now here we are on the 2nd day of another month !

I missed posting a "Happy Birthday" to Taylor Cherrington Hatfield on January 23rd - wishes are every bit as sincere even now! I left for Minnesota that very same day, and l spent the past week with my folks and family in New Ulm. Very nice time! I did think of Marshall on January 29 which would have been his and Liz's 63rd wedding anniversay. I am sure it was a bittersweet day for him.

Today I started playing my Hawaiian CD's to get in the proper mood for our trip to Hawaii on the 22nd, as if I needed Hawaiian music to help me....haha!

This Sunday is the Super Bowl in Indianapolis - big festivities downtown all week. Also, on Saturday is Delaney's first Winter Guards competition in Terre Haute. We plan to attend, and it should be loads of fun!

Tonight I am hosting Conversation Club at our house, and that promises to be a fun time as well.

And before I know it, we will be winging our way to Honolulu! Yippee!