Life is Good

I felt back in the groove yesterday. It was a dull day in the morning, and then a brilliant lovely warm wonderful sunny day in the afternoon. Sheba was groomed at nine am, and that had me doing a lot of driving to take her there and then to go back and pick her up. All the rest of the time in the morning, I was watering the garden beds.

I rested over lunch and got back to watering in the early afternoon. It takes a long, long time to water all the beds in one day. At three, Her Highness and I went to Elder Cedar for our afternoon walk. I’d love to run her at Rollo Park, but it’s too hot for any ball playing now in the afternoons. When we got home, I had a spa, of course, and then all were fed before I took my place on the chaise to watch Saoirse Ronan in Chesil Beach. I love Ms. Ronan. I think she’s a great actor.

After going to Nanaimo on Monday and spending much of the day in the car, and the only work I did yesterday was watering, which is really nothing but standing around, I had two days of life without shortness of breath. Today will be slightly riskier because after our walk, I’m going to be raking and toting—and high temperatures are predicted.

Well, I had the best of plans, but the day unfolded slightly differently than expected. On our walk with our friends, I had a seizure that I thought might break my jaw. That has never ever happened before.  Man-oh-man it hurt. And then, when I went to the vet’s to get Sheba’s prednisone—she’s now going down to 5 mgs every second day—I had another one, and the heat of the day made doing the raking and toting absolutely exhausting.

I have a garden bench that has always seemed rather pointless because I had so many cushioned garden chairs. But now I set it up wherever I am working because with a bench, I can lie down while I catch my breath. It’s a very valuable asset for me now.

Even though I watered thoroughly yesterday, the beds were looking parched. I was tempted to water, but it was predicted to rain today so I kept at my outdoor chores until it was time for our second walk, my spa, dinner and a movie.

Hooray! It rained in the night and it’s cloudy and cooler today. Yesterday was just too, too hot (28°). (I can’t believe I lived through our heat dome when temperatures here reached 42°!) I’m glad to have a cloudy day because I’ve to bake a cake for Ali and Pete to take to their place tomorrow where we’ll have a pizza dinner to celebrate Pete’s birthday. He’s a champion, our Pete. He’s the finest of men, always offering help to others.

It's now almost 9:00 am and I see blue sky in the west. I’ll bet it’s going to be sunny and warm again by the afternoon.