Slow Times at P. P.

I was out at 6:30 to water my garden beds. It took exactly two hours. I was inside, back at my desk at 8:30, and I’m delighted that I have found a way to water that makes it easy and a joy. I love watering in the early morning. I have the entire day free this way. Yesterday, I did some transplanting that I’ve long wanted to do, and some pruning of my ferns.

At 9:30, we met our friends to walk a trail I like very much. I am loving our weather. It is sunny every day but not hot. There are some clouds in the sky that give the garden short reprieves from the intense heat of the sun. But we have been getting gentle breezes every day that help keep the temperatures in the mid-twenties. 

We had a wonderfully mild and dry Winter. We had no snow and I only wore my rain gear twice all through Fall, Winter and Spring, and now we’re enjoying a wonderfully mild Summer. The District of Nanaimo has just released a report saying that our local aquifer is down 49% from last year. 

Mid-day, my watch started vibrating. It was an incoming phone call, and I was able to talk to Dr. Dorscheid from my watch. I had forgotten our Zoom appointment, so I chatted with him with difficulty on my watch as I moved indoors to switch to a video chat with him.

I am stopping one of my puffers, but I will have a prescription that enables me to get Spiriva if I feel that I need it. Dr. D. wants to be safe. He feels I should stay on the Symbicort for another year, just to be safe, and I’m fine with that. 

I had some hammock time and I read after lunch. I went over to Pete and Ali’s to chat with Pete about what I’m to do while they are away for ten days, but he wasn’t home. Instead, Her Highness and I went to the Elder Cedar grove to walk that trail. Then we came home for me to have a spa while Sheba joined the cats in the bedroom to sleep.

Our evening was the usual.

It’s thickly overcast this morning, but there is no rain in the forecast. We’ll walk a couple of times today, and I’ll read. It’ll be just another dull (but safe) day for us at Pinecone Park.