Surgery on right eye

Today I had the cataract removed from my right eye.  A new lens was put in.  So now the right and left should "match" each other.  I have started the every two hour regime of eye drops.  I am just glad to have it completed.  Of course it will up to a month before I have the new glasses, but am now using "cheater" glasses from the drug store. I can see great at a distance but need the glasses for close up. The actually surgery takes about 10 minutes. Of course it takes a day to recover from having the eye dilated  and from the anesthesia.  It is amazing.

Last week I was able to start my outside yard work.  I pulled up some spreading Juniper that was under the flowering cherry tree.  It had become about a foot deep and was causing problems with fungus on the tree so that the leaves would drop prematurely.  Then I dug out all the day lilies in front of the house, tilled the soil, added more soil and compost and replanted a fraction of them.  They were completely overgrown.  We had had beautiful weather to do this, but last night had a frost.  That was not a problem for my yard, but I worry about the blueberry bushes where I pick each year.

Trip to Minnesota

The silence on the blog is due to a 10 day trip to Minnesota.  On the first leg of the journey I stayed three nights in Kankakee with friends.  My friend there, J, is a Master Gardener and loves to draw landscape plans.  I had previously sent her a drawing of our house, deck and area around the house drawn to scale as well as several photographs of each side of the house.  We spend two days on her drawings.  It is about 350 miles to her house.  The next part of the trip is 550 miles.  I was in MN for 5 days and was able so see my 90 yr old mother each day as well as all of my brothers and sisters and G's bro and wife and son.  All in all it was a great trip.  I didn't take too many pictures, but may have a couple to post.

Tonight is check emails, snail mail and look at calendar for the next week.