Thursday dawned bright. I was out watering all the backyard beds at 6:30 and then I took Her Highness for our morning walk. But I was happy because we’ve had an asshole chairing the board running our volunteer fire department. He and his cronies were all voted out yesterday, and they were replaced by three excellent and qualified fellows for whom I voted. Yay! Yay! Yay!
Also yesterday … during the power outage, I started up my new generator. It was easy peazy, and I was thrilled. I hate using machines, but my fear has been lessened by this easy new generator. I’m glad I got rid of my overly powerful one and got this one that is far simpler to use.
Buoyed by the good news of the election, I wrote to Julie to see if she might tell me when I can expect to start on Tezspire, this expensive new drug I’m due to take. I’ve been checking my email every day, hoping to hear from her and I’m impatient now. The financing was established over two weeks ago. Hence, my email to her. She wrote back to say that it’ll be a couple more weeks. I’m glad to know.
I am very weak. I had a lovely perennial in a pot. I took it out of the pot and placed it where I wanted it and added soil from the bag of topsoil I had on hand. Then I dug up some lovely ground cover I have that spreads nicely, leaving lots for another time, and I planted it and added some soil around it. And then I walked, totally out of breath, to the house to lie down.
After my lunch and some rest, I moved two plants that love shade from where they were to a much better location. That was enough for another rest. I last much, much longer raking, weed whacking has a limit of about ten minutes, and I can sustain twenty minutes of raking and toting. Pruning, sweeping, spreading compost, picking up dog poop and branches; I know how long I can sustain every activity required of me at Pinecone Park.
I’ve learned not to set goals. I take each day as it comes. The essential things are shopping, trail walking with H.H. and watering. Watering I can do for hours. So, progress is constant but slow when it comes to gardening and yard maintenance. Right now, there’s a type of Dandelion that blooms on high rigid stalks blooming in my weed fields. It’s a pernicious spreader and one that I have spent some time pulling. That’s it’s only grace; they are easy to remove.
Many can be pulled by hand, but the majority need my little lever/puller device to remove. But right now, with these blooms everywhere in the yard, I find that grasping the five or six stalks of each plant allows me to pull the plant very easily out of the ground. What simple pleasure I have! So, I do that till I tire, rest, and then to out to do more or to do something else. This is my new way of Summer living. This is life with bad asthma.
They keep changing the weather on the Environment Canada weather map I use. It predicted rain for today but now it says just showers, and that probably means there’ll likely be no real rainfall, so I’ll be watering today, and puttering.
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