PT & Sherbondy's~

Really feeling deprived of spring - it was a relief when cooler weather & rain moved in.  This storm brought us 1-1/2 inches with many places receiving much more.  The cool down & release from the high humidity was so nice!

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Watching it rain~

I've begun Physical Therapy.  I know that sounds strange - some would ask why?  At least until you cover one eye & try to get through a day.  I bump into door jams, don't find things that are right next to me & feel dizzy & off balance when shopping.  I knocked over the cardboard display of DVD's at our local grocery.  Part of the therapy is designed to improve my Vestibulo-ocular Reflex.  This involves eye exercises & balance work on a computerized balance board.  I'm told that if I practice at home & go to therapy twice a week for a month - I will notice an improvement in my navigation skills.  :-)

Marigolds at Sherbondy's

Far from comfortable driving any distance, especially in traffic, Butch takes me & hangs out while I'm there.  After my second visit - he surprised me by stopping a nursery I'd heard a lot about - Sherbondy's.  This visit was especially nice, since I was wearing my new sunglasses!

Creative seating!

  I've worn Maui Jim sunglasses for years now, but it seems that bright light is now harder to deal with both for my good eye & the bad one.  My prescription had changed just a little too.  I called Maui Jim's to see if the frame & lens combination that I wanted was available in prescription.  Julie at Vision Specialists in Council Bluffs worked with me to place the order & could not have been more helpful.  When I called to have my prescription transferred there, it was Julie who noticed that they'd received one for my computer glasses, rather than for distance!  That would have been a costly mistake...  She also suggested the gradient lenses.

Fishy~

Maui Jim had them made & to us - in two-days!  The minute I put them on, I could feel my eye's relax!  The gray of the lens blended into my gray blobs & somehow made them easier to ignore.  At the nursery, I was seeing better than I have, since the eye went bad.

Dish Garden~

We came home with some new grasses to start on the big hill in the backyard & a Mighty Chestnut Daylily.  It's color is the perfect accent to all my marigolds that are starting to bloom!

In our wetland~

I love the Original Orange Daylily's that are growing wild in our wetland area.  The area between the higher portion of our backyard & the creek is somewhat of a wetland.  It's incredibly wet right now, but stays dry most of the time, unless we get the torrential rains that we have been.  Overrun with reed canary grass, about all I can do is keep it mowed down.

Tree down~

When I walked the creek yesterday, I couldn't miss the big tree that had pulled away from the bank & fallen into the creek.  It left a gaping hole in the hillside across from us.  Someone had put large chunks of concrete above where it grew.  I think the pressure of all that weight, contributed to the tree uprooting.  It gives you an idea of the sandy nature of the Loess Hills soil composition.

With July around the corner I have to hope for dryer weather, less humidly & some decent days to ride.