Tuesday began with puttering around the house until 8:00 when we went to Elder Cedar to walk. It is the nicest time of the day to walk because we were in shade the entire way, and it was only 22°. When we got home, I called Jake to have him come and fix my fucking freezer gasket. My freezer looks like Antarctica.
After lunch, I got buy watering and while busy at it, first my iPhone arrived via Fedex and then a box arrived via UPS. It was chock full of alcohol wipes and two sharps boxes for my infusion pens once they’ve been used. My bathroom looks like a pharmacy.
The watering seemed to last forever, but once the backyard was done, I came in to chill in my lovely and cool home. When we had the heat dome about four years ago, I had a heart attack, and my docs blamed it on the heat. That led to me getting a pacemaker, but I still want to take it easy when it’s as hot as it is of late. Today is likely to be much cooler than the past four days—and thank God for that!
Our afternoon walk was a killer for me. It was 34°, I had a very sore left foot, and my breathing required a very slow pace. I feel and look elderly. Perhaps I’ll look and feel more like myself when this heat ends. The compression socks keep my feet ‘normal’ size, or close to it, but my legs and my left arm are very fat and weird feeling.
All day, I looked forward to the evening on the chaise, in the cool of my home, with my four-legged family and with my feet up, television on.
In the evening, the sunset was stunning. However, its beauty came from sunlight coming through smoke from the forest fires on the big island that created a truly orange/golden glow. The tips of the branches on the trees across the street glowed with the golden light, but it was pale against the darker green of the trees. It was visually breathtaking.
When I am on my chaise beside the large living room window, all I see when I look out the window is my front yard, the driveway and trees. I wish I’d known rural living much, much earlier in my life. Mind you, Amazon makes living here very comfortable very easily. And video chatting had changed rural living as well. I think because of Tezspire, I feel more alive than I had been feeling since the onset of such severe asthma.
I met a woman yesterday whom I’ve seen before on dog walks. She was walking her Beagle in Elder Cedar. We chatted and I patted Chester, and I spoke lovingly to him even though he is deaf. And then the woman told me that Chester has cancer, and I couldn’t help myself. I instantly started tearing up and I could not get a grip. I think the woman was touched by my empathy, but still, I was terribly embarrassed.
I think being arrested last night, by the beauty of the light on the trees, and crying over Chester are because I feel that I’m getting a second chance at living and feeling healthy. I must avoid hills and exertion, and I can’t carry heavy things, but otherwise, all feels very good.
By 19:00, the sun was amazing again—and frightening at the same time. It was a very vivid orange/red, was like an effect you might see in a science fiction movie.
The backyard looks like a desert with garden beds in it. Everything is yellow and the yard is dusty dry. Rain is due on Friday. It will be welcome, but it’ll also not make much of a difference. Another round of eternal sunshine returns on Saturday, which is nice for Bruce’s visit, but shite for the garden beds. One day, this endless watering will end.
It's 17° this morning. We’re enjoying a slightly cooler start to the day. We’ll be walking with our friends and then doing the usual. But Colleen comes today to do gardening.
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