Around the corner

 

Red’s favorite yard

    I am grateful that we awoke to sunshine today and robins everywhere. There’s hope for spring yet.

Drear all week

Ian’s picture, from his Va spring break trip

   And I lost my draft post just finished, dozed off and must have hit something wrong, dang it!

   Cold spring. No sunshine, precip, low temps predicted for a week. We three are so sleepy we can’t stand it this morning. 

    Pleasantly busy yesterday. Nurse P and OT C visits for A.  They dismissed him because he’s doing so well. We three then went grocery shopping. He managed to well, red stayed in the car but walked after we put groceries in boot. I was and have been achy chronically plus terrible lower GI problems; makes me feel testy, reactive.

   Got title sent off and contacted Horace Mann. Left message to Off M re who transported A and how to pay, but haven’t heard back. Guess I won’t think about insurances again until the next round. 

   Spoke to Liz. Tillie escaped and rolled in poo. L said “tell her she’s a sh-head.  I had to throw her in the shower.” lol

    Finally spoke to I after phone tag all day. He’s remarkably uncommunicative or unobservant of his own life.  Still good to hear that beautiful voice of his.

  To do today:  laundry, rainy dog walks, a couple of business phone calls. 

Takes one to know

Just before heading home last night

I love her hand made mohair dress

 More later. Or not. 

  It was a lovely visit, just one screaming session from me, not her. Same prompt:  stop talking about world horrors. And share the air. 

 Again,  I am fascinated by that dress she made and is wearing. The skirt floats so pretty. 

April Fool

That’s me. 4-1-2017 Ojo Caliente Spa, NM

So fat!

 The sweet and the noisy. What a combination.  S?

  What did I mean by that?  I must have been interrupted. 

   I think S left today after Webinar. I remember hurriedly preparing meals,  one for her about 7:15, one for A at 5:15.

   Called out two newbie comments, one was GIG doing chakras, the other seeming to equate  holy denying with automatism. Hope I was correct  

    Can’t recall daytime activities. Was this the day L visited after kindly walking Red?

Another busy day

   

Fu

     Started with a rainy trip to the doctors office to review a condition. He’s doing very well   OT, daughter, webinar lunch prep, all converged at the same time, 1 o’clock. Wow. Red is very confused With Miss Kitty in the house.

    R can be downright undiplomatic if not downright rude at times, declaring others’ opinions to be lies.  Must admit I jumped in on E’s side when that happened today regarding “objective/subjective,” partly because a rift between them would sadden me greatly.

    Then how rude was , yelling at S to stop the on and on about  world evil via “poor Dubai” during C’s visit when the initial topic was  innocent Dubai Chocolate.  She is aware of monologue tendency. She said, “I don’t have anyone to talk to at home.”  

     She was so sweet and helpful. Took her dad out to bank, PO, pharmacy, a good outing for him. She cuddled on my lap when she needed a nap. She advised me about health problems we share .

Jour ordinaire

 

Home small, crammed, familiar. Familiar is a comfort.

     Automaton. Cast out that line and reel it back, same events as yesterday. Business calls.  Dog walk, happily greet neighbors and gossip about Islamic corp Maria’s house—remain a bnb or harbor immigrant relatives?  K says noisy so far eg slamming doors circa midnight.  Hard arthritis pain all joints, trying out S’s large heating pad. A’s OK today, no med pros coming in til tomorrow then doubles every day plus S and Fu. 

Cas

The boys (& girls) are back in town

 

Spring???  afternoon in the park

   The cold hasn’t kept them indoors. And it is cold despite what the temperature says or the sunshine hints; it’s that chill wind again

It’s late, I'm reaching

 

Good dogs, Cyrus and Timmy, 12-22– 2005

      That many years ago!  Gone but not forgotten. 

And that’s it for todsy

Spring wonders

Yesterday’s surprise.  Looks like two dogs out there. 

Another one of nature’s natural surprising sculptures on the last of the snow.

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    Red had two nice walks today and I didn’t take him on either one. J Took him out this afternoon, and this morning G and L walked him a good long way while I worked on A’s personal grooming prior to doc visit. Good outings for us all. Bright sunlight tho cold winds. Napping also feels good to us all after ChicFilet redux, yum. No cooking tonight. Red, especially enjoyed rip-and-shredding the pup cup after licking out all the whipped cream.  You know I call him Mr. Ripanshredder

    Sis D had another ablation today and is recovering well, she says 

  I will facilitate PSC meeting tonight o Orage, psychological  essay 8, Are we awake?

Looks like I missed again

 

Portland in town

     Gray day. Red and I took a short walk up the hill. We approached, nervously I admit, then passed 5-6 overly happy—high?—probably homeless people, male and females, 20s-30s,  at the corner, just as they left a bearded older looking compadre sitting on a carton playing flicking a lighter to a small piece of diamond shaped mesh. We all exchanged cordial greetings.

       A few feet around the corner a man in a black ski cap was folded on a single stoop step, bare forearm and spread open tanne hand holding/protecting all his worldly possessions, a blue and black backpack. Sleeping hard in an apparently habitual  posture and place at 2:30 pm in a usually frigid city.  Of course I felt pity. As I walked past him, I had the urge to dig out a dollar, no, make it a fiver, and slip it under his open hand, or,  safer? , his backpack.  But no.  Might not be safe for me on my wobbly pins with little leashed Red to encounter God knows what. And a beautiful well dressed young woman passed us just at that moment with a small hello to let us know she was there, as we were unaware of her before. So Red and I walked on, wondering at the variety of folk on God’s planet.