The End of the Weekend

In 2006, we decided to give ourselves an anniversary present and ordered some Red Carpet Lilies from a mail order nursery. They are starting to multiply and become more spectacular in this, their second year in the back garden. They are beginning to be overrun by the day lilies, however, and someone is going to have to move!

When we planted the red lilies, we also moved a lot of day lilies from both the front and back to our side yard, to give our neighbors, the Guys, something more than brick walls to look at. These plants are flourishing, too. All of the lilies seem to be one or two weeks behind this year-- as are all of the insects. We only recently saw fireflies, and the locusts haven't yet started hollering in the trees at dusk. Another part of the evening concert, the tree frogs, often start around July 4. We'll have to see what happens this year.

Our church service this morning was exciting, as we had visitors from Tennessee (Memphis and Nashville) here to see their daughters, and a new member came forward and was welcomed as well. Yesterday we enjoyed a rousing discussion at our book club, even though we hadn't finished the book. Then we went to Left Bank bookstore and bought books for the next two meetings. We hope to get through those in timely fashion! And we are heartened to know that our friend Norma, who moved from home hospice care to St. Anthony's Hospice House on Wednesday (while we were there to sit with her) is much more comfortable and able to visit briefly with members of her family and the church. These are hard days, but made easier by the miracle of hospice care and support.

As for readership, these last few days I've noted a persistent blog visitor from Western Kansas with a location of Monument, although we don't know of anyone there. We do think it could be a branch of family that lives in another town that also has the same ISP as our readers in Colby and Goodland, but we can't be sure. We also had a long visit to both this blog and Compton Cares from a reader in Dallas. We wonder if it could be a friend from Compton who moved to that area the first of this year. Mysteries. Whoever you are, thanks for reading and checking in.