A Busy Day

Fuck. What a shitload of duty used up my day. I was busy from 5:00 to 7:00 tidying and cleaning, then I took a nap, and when I rose again like Jesus, Steve was up, and we left to walk with our friends.

Next was shopping for supplies and to pick up my prescriptions, then we came home for lunch and a short rest and then it was watering time. It took two hours of conscientious work to water everything. I was hot when I was watering (26°). And then I had to vacuum the house, and Steve had left dishes for me to wash. I had half an hour to myself before our guests arrived. I used the time to chill and shower.

I was slightly apprehensive about the evening because of all the work, the lack of rest, stress over aspects of Steve’s behavior, and having no time for a sleep before the arrival of our guests, and wasps. We have a bazillion wasps flying around, so Steve set out a wasp trap (much to my chagrin), and Eoin set out some chicken scraps for them to feed on instead of off our plates.

In fact, the wasps were not much of a problem, nor were mosquitoes, so we had a very nice evening eating outdoors in the garden. François, bless him, was very complimentary about the garden; all of them were blown away by my massive Butterbur plant. 

It was a great night, but poor Jay is getting sicker by the day. He saw his sister last week, and he doesn’t see her very often and he said last night that he doubts he will see her again. He does not expect to live for too much longer. He has idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and it is progressing very quickly. I told him about prednisone, and he asked his doctor for it, and it brought him great relief.

The left at around ten o’clock, and I washed dishes to get a head start on today. I finished them this morning. Steve will be up soon, and we’ll likely have a spa and then we’ll walk Her Highness before taking him to the ferry at 11:00. Crazy as he can be, I shall miss him when he is gone. We are strongly bonded.

I’ll water in the afternoon, of course, but soon I’ll enjoy a break from the daily watering. Sunday is predicted to be cloudy, and on Monday we’re expecting rain. Then we’re predicted to have several cloudy days. Finally, a break from the endless sunshine and heat.

Now, life gets back to normal with just me and the pets.

Steve is Mr. Dressup. This is what he wore last night.