An Interesting Monday

For the last couple of days, I've been dealing a swollen gland under my right ear.  It's got painful, so after we couldn't find an Urgent Care open this weekend, we finally went to the Emergency Room at the Newton Medical Center this morning. They were pretty efficient, but in the middle of checking it out, a guy came in who had cut the end of his finger off, so we had to wait for the doctor to sew him up.  She was pretty sure (since eating blueberries this morning hurt...) that it is an infected salivary gland and started me on an Augmentin regimen.  Hopefully that will take care of the problem quickly because it hurts...!

We had an invitation for lunch at noon at Walt and Clara's.  It was close, but we made out of the clinic and got there only about ten minutes late.  Roger had ridden his bike over on his lunch hour as well.  We had a feast of bean soup, fresh fruit salad and mulberry pie.  After lunch we had a good couple of hours visit with Walt and Clara, then picked up my prescription and headed home for nap.  It got hot enough today that we had to turn on the AC.

After supper we headed out to Roger and Carmen's 14 acres.  They have a nice mixture of trees, a pond, a couple of creeks, some prairie grass and grass.  It's a fun place to walk through.  There are even some fall flowers blooming in spite of this summer's drought conditions.  I know this one is Liatris spicata or Gayfeather --

But I have NO idea what this one might be.  There are white leaves at the top of the green-leaved plant --

But the white flowers are actually tiny and on top of the white leaves around the green centers...

I'll be interested to hear if any of you know what it is!

We sat outside of their back door and watched the sun come down before Carmen fed the guys warm brownies just out of the oven and ice cream.