Dinner at the Surf

 

Above: Four bundles of clothes, some for The Gabe Shop to help raise money for the medical clinic, and the majority to People for a Healthy Community to give to their unhoused clients. I also boxed all the books that I want to get rid of and wrote to the contact person for the annual library fundraiser. The library hosts a huge book sale every year in our community hall. Progress!

I spent a good part of the day trying on all the clothes, sorting them into piles and then bundling and labeling them. It’s work that I’ve wanted to do for ages but I’m a seriously competent procrastinator. I’m full of energy for this work. Thank you, Tezspire! For two years I did nothing. I hired people to do everything because my asthma was so ridiculously bad. But now, I have the energy to do chores and enthusiasm to do them. It’s like the old days!

I quite working at 13:30 and Sheba and I went walking. It was so lovely outside, I had to take advantage of it. Plus, I wanted to do a lot of walking during the day because at 5:45, on the first day of our new and stable Pacific Time, Eoin and François picked me up and we went to The Surf for dinner. It was a delight to be with them and to go out for dinner. I had a blast, and I was home early enough to chill for a while before bedtime.

I accepted the request for two cakes. They don’t want them until July 4^th. I’m not charging them, but I will ask them to pay for out-of-pocket expenses which will be very modest as I always have tons of flour, chocolate, butter and icing sugar in hand. They’re having 70-80 guests, so both cakes will be sheet cakes. They are very hard to make because I make large thin sheets of cake on a cookie sheet, and they are challenging to maneuver. I must flip them on top of each other and it’s brutally hard.

Dinner was a blast. It was wonderful to be eating dinner in daylight. On a beautifully sunny evening. It really feels good to be alive. Winter is over.  Spring officially starts in two weeks. I adore Eoin and François. We never lack for things to talk about, and we are all always ready for a laugh. It is sad that Jay is gone and that we are not three instead of four. Whenever I get together with them, I wear something of Jay’s so that he is still ‘with’ us. 

I spoke to soon. Winter ain’t over. Last night, Winter came to deliver its last cold breath. I awoke in a cold, cold house this morning. I was out in the cold and black fetching wood to light a big fire to get the house warm.

I got an email from Aidan who’s happy with my database work. He’s okay with me taking a break from adding people as I stay busy with a big Spring cleaning at Pinecone Park. Today’s chore is fetching all the crap in the attic space that went up there when I moved in. I’ll go through everything and discard as much as I can in advance of calling the disposal service.