Saturday night, in bed, I had a vicious cramp in my left leg. I’d had a seizure when Ali and Pete came to pick up the cake; I reckon the cramp was also a reaction to the stress of two days of challenging baking. It was one of the worst cramps I’ve had.
I’d get about ninety seconds of extreme pain, followed by about another ninety seconds of less extreme pain, and that pattern would repeat for about twenty minutes. It is horrid. It was so bad, this morning, it was still hurting from the bruising the cramps cause, but after I walked around for five minutes, the pain went away.
When I got up and went into the kitchen yesterday morning after rising at 5:00, it felt to me like a crime scene. The cooling rack, the mixing bowl and other things visible from my two brutally demanding days of baking looked like instruments of torture to me. My mantra for my day yesterday, however, was: Today is for me.
I fed my beloveds and got into the spa, keeping the wound out of the water. It was a cool 14° outside. Being so warm and cozy in the water, I closed my eyes and loved the feeling of the wind on my face. It took me back to my years of sailing when the wind would blow off the mainsail and onto me, and as many years of skiing and feeling the rush of air as I raced down the cut. It was heavenly out there having not a care in the world.
After the spa, Her Highness and I went walking on a long route. We were back to normal routines. It was fabulous walking together. It was early so no one was one the trails. The forest is heavenly right now because all the Ocean Spray is blooming and its sweet, wonderful fragrance fills the air.
When we got back home, I fed everyone lunch and then Sheba and I went to Silva Bay so that I could have fish tacos from the food truck. It was a perfect Sunday, and the food truck is a Sunday tradition. We sat at one of the picnic tables, and a lesbian couple asked to join me. We started chatting and I am smitten with Bonnie and Sue. We’re going to meet there again next Sunday!
After eating lunch, Her Highness and I went to Drumbeg to walk. There were lots of people on a beautiful sunny Sunday. They were walking, picnicking, and swimming in the sea, it was lovely to be there. Everyone was in such a good mood. And when we were done, we came home and I had a very brief soak in the sunshine, and then I had a nap in the nice cool house.
Late in the afternoon, Dana came by to repay me for my expenses, and she and Brent gave me a gift certificate to Woodfire restaurant. The biggest surprise of the day was discovering a deposit of $700 in my bank account. It was due to the federal government’s Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit!
In the evening, I watched a movie and then went to bed early.
Today, I get back to watering. We’ll also walk with our friends. The rest of the day will be spent puttering around the garden beds.
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