Blessings from Jess and Todd

 

I can header wait to see this film!

Friday was wonderfully wet. I was overjoyed to have the day off from watering, and to be able to light a small fire to warm up the house and dehydrate all the fabric in the house. I lazed through the morning knowing I had no demands on me for the day. 

Di was late joining us for our walk. Often, someone is late. I can’t imagine sleeping so late that it’s hard to make a 9:30 walking date. Getting up at 4:30 means I have five hours in which to do things before meeting up for the walk. 

We walked with our friends and were lucky that the rain held off while we were on the trails. Then we came home and I just puttered around the house before lunch time. After lunch, I had a nap, and then I did my SPACE homework as the sky brightened and all hope of more rain died.

When my SPACE work was done, I attended to the raspberry canes. I had lots of berries this year, but many of them were very small. I think I disturbed them when I decided to haul out all the feral potatoes that were overtaking the bed. I cut down all the old canes and did some other pruning until it was time for our afternoon walk. We went to the Elder Cedar grove to walk. As Sheba is increasingly uninterested in walking, I like to go to trails she finds irresistible.

When we got home, my new duvet and duvet cover had arrived. They were awaiting me outside the front door, so this morning I am washing my bed linen and putting the new duvet on the bed. I washed my huge throw last week, so it will protect my new duvet from paw abuse.

Last evening was the usual, but I had one surprise. Tod and Jess called me on Facetime. I have to say that my eyes were wet as we talked. I’ve known Jess since she was two. I didn’t care for her when she was a child, but when puberty hit, she changed and became my favourite person in the world. 

She and Todd live in Victoria, but she had to come to Vancouver often for work. She works for the BC government. Whenever she came to the city, she stayed with me and our mutual love grew. One day, when she came to stay, she threw herself onto me with a big hug when I opened the door. That may be the greatest moment of my life. I had never experienced such enthusiasm from anyone, not even Steve.

As I wrote about on this blog often, her parents, fast friends for fifty-two years, dumped me after a scathing attack. It was Frani, not Chris, who berated me for believing in my diagnoses from Dr. Shoja. Frani had her own idea about my breakdown, and she defended my parents whom she had never met.

I hadn’t spoken with Todd and Jess for almost eight months. I found it hard to be with them because it made me think about Frani and how mean she was to me, and I sensed that they knew that and that we were both letting go of our friendship. Their call last night made it very clear that our friendship will go on. and I am immensely happy about that. I was very teary when we said good-bye.

This morning. The thick clouds are back. There could be more rain this morning, but it is predicted to clear around noon and be sunny and hot all week. I have another day to play today. I need not water anywhere, here or at Ali and Pete’s.