What a morning I had yesterday!
First, the door to my pantry fell off. It’s been a semi-working sliding door for ages, so I got my tools and as I was fixing it, the power went off. I kept at the job using a flashlight, and when it was done, I was happy for about a second when I realized that I had a Zoom meeting scheduled at 11:00 with Dr. S.
I had two reasons to crack up my generator, so that’s what I did. Can one love a generator? I do. I have Tezspire in my fridge that must be kept in a low temperature range of just a few degrees. My generator returned me to a reasonable peace of mind once I saw that I could access the Internet and I could keep my medicine in safe storage.
It’s a huge area that is without power (2,900 households). I went to the Hydro website to see what was up. A tree fell across wires somewhere, so it won’t be too long a blackout. All the drama made me forget about my anxiety over me and SPACE. SO, with a relatively tranquil mind restored, Her Highness and I went for a walk in wonderfully warm air under overcast skies.
We’re going to have a warm week, and sunshine is predicted to return on the weekend. I’m extremely happy to walk in these temperatures. It makes me feel good. And walking in nature also heals me. I should have kept my cool last night and made plans to walk at first light. It’s kind of funny that the door falling off and the blackout helped me forget about my problems.
When we got back to the house, the Internet was gone so I fretted about not seeing Dr. Shoja at a time when I really wanted to see her. There are so many things to be anxious about! I felt defeated. At 11:00, I called Dr. Shoja on the phone. I’d left her a message earlier, but I wanted to be sure that she got it. Lucky for me, she had an opening this coming Tuesday, and I took it. And then I filled the generator with more gas, and we went for another walk and into the village to fetch some groceries.
We came home and saw blue sky. I took it as a good omen, and I was thrilled to come home to power. I set my sack of groceries down, shut down my computer and began to unplug all everything from the extension cords, plugging everything back into the sockets. As I was doing that, I heard a high ping and wondered what it was. It was my smoke detector going out. We’d lost power again. I was supremely pissed.
It came back on, and so did the sun. We were predicted to have an atmospheric river dump on us, but nada. We’re perhaps heading into a very scary Spring/Summer after such a dry Winter. We’ve been advised to prepare for a very bad tick and insect season because of the warm Winter. Sigh. I saw mosquito wigglies in my water collector already.
I was crushed all day. I had no energy for anything. The night of anxiety, and missing Dr. S. and two power outages did my broken mind in. I tried to nap, but couldn’t, so instead, at 14:15, we went for our third walk of the day, and it was along one because it was so nice out and my brain needed lots of exposure to wonderfully mild fresh air and the forest. I carried my coat and rolled up the sleeves of my hoodie because it was so warm.
I read when we got home, and then it was time for the regular nightly pattern to commence.
We’ve been told an atmospheric river was coming for three days, but we’ve had no rain. This morning is dry and very, very warm. Our walk with our friends is likely to be fabulous if the rain continues to hold off. I Zoom with Aidan today, and that’s my only obligation.
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