I fed the brood at 4:30 and then posted and tidied up a bit. By 5:00, I was in the spa hoping to heal my aching body a bit before walking Her Highness and then attending to watering all the garden beds and fruit and flowering trees and shrubs. It’s a big job, watering, but at least it doesn’t make anything hurt.
We walked early. We were on the trail by 7:30 in chilly air. It was only 10°, but it felt good to be back to walking for a decent distance on one of our regular trails after two days of short walks while I focused on stacking wood. When we got home, I started watering the beds. My hands were freezing when I came in for a break and to warm up.
When I finished watering everywhere, it was lunch time, and once that was done, I got started on stacking the last few barrow loads of wood, and then I started on the kindling. My aching body rebelled; I did a couple of barrow loads of kindling, but my heart wasn’t in it, and neither were my arms and hands. We chilled, we went shopping, I did a couple more loads and then we went walking.
I chose to ease up yesterday because I have lots of time to tote the remaining few loads of kindling. If I overdue things, my symptoms flare up. It was a terrific day yesterday knowing that toting and stacking was largely behind me for another year. I am chuffed by my capacity for work—thank you Tezspire—and happy to have only light garden and yard work ahead of me for the balance of the Summer and Fall.
Sheba had no interest in walking in the afternoon. I took her to a favourite trail, but she would not get out of the car. She is one strong willed dog! So, we came back home, I had a spa and she slept. Our evening was the usual.
Today is another sunny and bright day. I must water Pete and Alis’s plants, I must tote the last of the kindling sized wood, and this afternoon Sheba and I will go to Eoin and François’ place to meet their new ducks and to walk out dogs together.
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