Blessings we have

Hello,

I was looking at Facebook this afternoon when a friend sent me a chat note. I decided to call her. We talked for some time sharing some news. Just ten years ago this would not have happened. Besides not having access to facebook, the call would have been expensive. My friend lives on the east coast. In the past a long distance call always took some thought instead of just being on a whim.  Today it added nothing to the expenses in my life.

I had a dr. appointment today. Yesterday I got the reminder about it. Even though I was not home and my cell was turned off they could leave a message. How was that situation handled before answering machines? About a half hour before I was to go they called asking if I had gotten the voice mail that the Dr. was not in. Where that message went is a mystery so the system is not totally reliable. Luckily caring people make the extra effort.

Leroy is taking time off this afternoon because he works on Saturday. He is now happy as a clam “working on his stamps”. I am not sure why but this work requires a great deal of talking to himself. I am grateful he is here with me even if he does cut into my concentration.

The amaryllis has four blooms open and the second one has two open with two more to come. My sister’s gloxinia now resides at my house and it is also blooming so the living room is quite cheery. The bromeliad from her funeral has stopped blooming, but it has had a “pup”. That is the term I found on the internet, that source of the odd fact. In time the parent plant will die and I can repot the new one which might even be joined by another. My clivia now has five babies poking up from the roots. Plants and a sense of hope fill the room. I can feel a spring plant give-away coming on.

Paula