It hailed yesterday morning, and then we had some very light snow, and it was cold. I kept the fire roaring. I hate being cold, so I stayed in the shower for some extra time. And I had some welcome news in an email: the six books I ordered are arriving. At least I think it’s my books. We have a new carrier serving Gabriola, and they wrote to say they are about to arrive with ‘my order.’ I hope it is the books because I’ll have a good reading supply.
In the meantime, I filled my time yesterday doing SPACE work. It’s tedious work searching for Canadian speech language therapists to add to our SLP database. We want to build up our list of contacts, so I am finding as many SLPs as I can.
Stacey wrote to me. She’s on Gabe this week recovering from her hip surgery. She wrote to tell me that she was scammed in the same way that I was. These fuckers sicken me. I went to her place to fetch her, and we went into the village for coffee. Afterwards, I took her home and then returned to the village to shop for groceries and to order prescriptions. I take 11 prescriptions every day, but come Summer, I’m very hopeful that two of them will be stopped. Dr. Dorscheid thinks that he’ll be able to take me off my puffers because my lungs are responding so incredibly well to the Tezspire. Fingers are crossed!
When we left the village, we went walking in Rollo Park because our first morning walk was short so that I could get to Stacey’s on time. Then we headed for home. And man-oh-man was I was happy to get back to Pinecone Park. For one thing, there was not a speck of snow anywhere, plus the house was toasty warm. We had lunch and then I felt the call of the couch because I was pooped. I had SPACE work to do, but I decided to let it wait.
My nap was mere minutes, and when I opened my eyes, the sky was perfectly clear and blue, and when the sun shines, I am pulled outdoors. Her Highness and I went for a long walk along trails that I have never walked before. I love getting ‘lost’ in unfamiliar territory and discovering new trails. It was brisk but wonderfully uplifting to walk in glorious sunshine.
We got back at 15:30, and because I had some weakness on the hills, I took my Tezspire out of the fridge and then gave myself a shot an hour later, once it was room temperature. Today, I will have no problems with hills when we walk with our friends. And when I get home, I must get busy with SPACE work.
It’s the coldest it’s been all year this morning, but I reckon that this is the end of being so cold. As I write and post this morning, it is 7:00 and the fire has been going for two hours but the house is still chilly. I’m sitting at my desk wrapped in a blanket (non-electric).
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