Oh what a beautiful morning it was yesterday! It was cold, but a glorious day for Dianne’s trip from Vancouver and our afternoon walk at Drumbeg. She arrived to a sparkling house and the delight of my menagerie (fresh smells) at 11:00 am.
I kept the fire hot for her arrival and I cranked up the hot tub to 103°. We had a filling lunch after a nice glad-to-be-back-together chat, and then we went to Drumbeg.
I felt pretty “solid” all day. There were few seizures that were really short and my speech was really pretty good. But I crashed in the evening so we did not go to the neighbourhood party we’d planned on attending.
Instead, I cooked dinner on the barbeque. It’s my primary cooking mode now. But I ran out of gas but had a spare tank. We ate late (almost nine) and went to bed.
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When I go to my post office box, a few blocks away, there’s usually junk mail, often a New Yorkeror other mail for me. Or there can be a key that opens one of the large communal boxes of various sizes wherein will be a package for me. Or there can be a notice to go to the post office to pick up a parcel that is too big for any of the boxes, requires a signature or requires a fee.
Yesterday I got two notices about things to pick up at the post office anda parcel in one of the large community postal boxes. I absolutely love it when a parcel arrives. I order online a lot, so I’m never sure what is arriving so I’m, thrilled by the surprise of each delivery.
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I’m not certain what we’ll do today or if Dianne will want to come on my morning walk with Her Highness, but all will be revealed over breakfast. There’s a chance it will snow; it will likely rain; we’ll likely be passing the day indoors.
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I’m enjoying a feeling of confidence. Everything is in good working order, even the pets. I’m “on top” of my emails, the laundry and all is in fine form in my home. I don’t think anything is better for my mental health than this feeling.
Winter is so easy! Last summer, I had a bad attitude for a while about watering my garden. Four months without rain and a lot of heat had me watering by hand for hours.
It was a summer of learning: I now know I have lots of well water even during a drought, I also know I need to get a sprinkler and mechanize my garden watering somehow because with the vegetable garden starting up this Spring will double the watering workload.
Like I said: Winter is a season of low demand—except when there’s a record-breaking windstorm—so it’s easy to feel on top of things. And I do!
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