SPACE Time

Yesterday was mostly about SPACE. I did hours of work building a media list for our organization. It’s tedious work, but the weather is inspiring me to spend the day indoors. It’s dark, windy and ten degrees and we’re supposed to get some showers today, so I’ll do more work on our list today.

Yesterday, I got some plants into the ground, and I expanded the fence around the Apple tree. I was busy all day, either at the keyboard or puttering around in the garden. The nicest part of my day was my morning spa. It’s chilly in the house in the mornings, and when I am typing, I can feel the cold in my hands. That’s when I want to get into the spa and get toasty warm.

Sheba and I did no walking yesterday. I discovered a large wound on one of her paws, so I cleaned it and administered some salve and bound it. Through the day, I had to keep letting her out because she is sick as well. She’s lethargic and she has diarrhea. We had an accident in the house last night, so my morning began with cleaning a rug and the floor. Poor baby!

Last evening we had a brief shower. I’m desperately hoping we get some real rain showers today. I’m grateful for this break in the weather. It makes me want to stay indoors and that means I’ll get a lot of work done for SPACE. There’s a lot on my plate. I’ll release some of that pressure by knocking one big chore off my list of things to do.

I made two phone calls without using the referral service. I called the pharmacy and my bank. Yes, it was challenging to speak, but the remarkable thing from my perspective was that I felt I could do it, and I did it, and that’s a significant achievement considering how much trouble I’ve been having with speech since March 28. 

Beth and Steve are coming to visit this Summer. Aidan and Dwight are also likely visitors, so the improvement in my speech is supremely welcome. I’m glad I contacted Jess and had some modest speech therapist experience, and I’m glad I stopped going. It was too much and to have four seizures in an hour is ridiculous. I had to stop. Clearly to me, withdrawing into solitude and getting lots of rest is very therapeutic for me.

Today will be all about SPACE and I’ll do some shopping. My focus will be on poor Sheba. I’m going to stop at Rollo Park on our way into the village to shop for groceries. She can walk on nice soft grass there. It’s going to be an easy slow day at the keyboard for most of my time. Tomorrow we’ll have mixed weather, and then the eternal sunshine returns and I’ll return to yard work guilt-free because of all the SPACE work that I’ve done over the past two days.

Glacial ice turns blue when it is compacted. It comes from the lower
levels of a glacier that has calved. It' so surreally beautiful.