I don’t have any pertinent pictures so…more flowers! In order: love-in-a-mist, day lily, day lily.
Once again I’ve spent the week moving the sprinkler around. We need rain so badly, I can’t remember how long it’s been. Highs in the 90s and no rain predicted until maybe next Monday.
The results of my visit with the ophthalmologist last Monday, eye is healing nicely. Took me off the antibiotic eye drop and reduced the other two to just three times a day for a week and then two times a day for a week and then come back. So Monday I did not use the antibiotic eye drops for the last dose of the day. Tuesday I was amazed at how good my eye felt and has since, the gooey feeling gone. So either it was the antibiotic eye drops that caused that sensation or it was the mother of all coincidences. She said I could go about my usual activity. Yoga, forward bend for 12 breaths (not that I hold one for 12 breaths)? Um, maybe just six. Pick up heavy stuff? How heavy she asked. Forty pound bag of dirt? Maybe next week.
Don’t really have much to write about; went to yoga Monday and Wednesday (canceled Thursday), did a CostCo run on Wednesday, went to SHARE on Thursday, worked on the fence line two days for an hour or so (still not done, it’s freaking hot out there). This would have been birthday week when the kids were growing up; daughter’s birthday was Tuesday, son’s birthday was Friday. When I was pregnant with my son everybody kept saying wouldn’t it be great if they were born on the same day as his due date was within a day or two of hers. No! How terrible that would be for them. I kept telling that baby to hold on for a few more days.
I let Minnie out in the little backyard one last time before bed the other night, as I do, and she bolted straight to the base of the tallow tree barking, as she does. We have possums that live under the house and they forage around under there. Well, that night there was a scramble and she started barking hysterically at something so I went after her. Laying on the ground was not quite a baby not quite a juvenile possum, eyes staring deadly, mouth pulled back in a rictus. I picked Minnie up and put her back in the house. If they run she chases but she doesn’t really know what to do with one when it’s playing dead. Of course it was gone the next morning. Probably got up and ambled on a few minutes after I closed the back door.
There was some excitement at SHARE which I totally missed somehow. I hadn’t missed a day that I can remember but I noticed that one of the volunteers that worked in clothing hadn’t shown up for about 4 or 5 weeks and I finally asked one of the guys what was up. He said she had got into it with one of the clients to the point where Jan had to intervene and sent her back to where the food was stored and people pick up their food and clothes and whatever else they are receiving. She was pissed off and venting loudly and cursing a blue streak back there and was told not to come back. Where the hell was I that I was not aware of any of this, she had to have walked right past me and I’m in and out of that store room. This woman has always been very free with profanity when bs-ing with us in the food area and I assume with everybody else. Didn’t bother me especially because, well, I’m fairly free with it myself, but I’m also very restrained with my speech around those churchy people, no point in creating discomfort around people I work with every week.
The only other thing that went on this week is my grandson fixed the truck, putting in a new fuel pump and put the switch on the battery that connects/disconnects it since we have a short somewhere that drains the battery. Now all I have to do is pop the hood and flip the switch when I want to use the truck. First thing is taking it through the car wash, next thing hauling all the accumulated various metal to the metal recyclers. He also added AC coolant to the car. It has a leak somewhere, hasn’t been cooling very well for a while. Whatever he added has dye in it so that as it leaks out he’ll be able to tell where the leak is. Nice to have a mechanic in the family now that they have moved back here from Arkansas. He’s turned into a fine young man, responsible father of two.
No coherent or tidy ending to my life last week.
Well, I'm glad there was no ending to your life last week, coherent, tidy, or any way at all!
ReplyDeleteI know what you meant.
Same here weather-wise. Frying hot, no rain. Very hard to motivate myself to get out there and do yard work. Or garden work, really.
Fantastic news about your eye.
And yeah- what's the point in cursing around the churchies? I do forget myself though sometimes.
I wish I had a mechanic of any sort in my family. That's a gift from the universe.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why I found the story of Minnie and the possum so funny, but I sure did. I came across a possum playing possum right in front of my car one night, and I don't know which of us was more taken aback. I didn't know much about the critters at the time, so I had to be told to come inside and wait for ten minutes. That did it. When I went back, the critter had trundled off.
ReplyDeleteI had a truck in my life at one time that had to have the battery disconnected between uses. A switch would have been a handy addition to the system. I'm glad you've got a mechanic "on site" now.
Possum is still quite rare here and I have only seen two live ones. Unfortunately I encounter them most as roadkill. Very sad. Highway carnage seems to get worse each year.
ReplyDeleteGood news about your eye! My grandmother got this done to both of her eyes when she was in her 90s and she was mentioned in the local newspaper as the - at the time - oldest person to have that surgery. She was very happy about it and especially because she could properly weed her garden again and check the small change when she went shopping.
ReplyDeleteWe had the first decent rain in two months yesterday and the garden has exploded.
Well, considering you said you didn't have much to write about, that's actually quite an eventful post! Glad Minnie didn't mix it up with the possum. As you know, they can be pretty nasty and those teeth are sharp. Glad the eye is improving! It sounds like SHARE is better off without that particular volunteer.
ReplyDeleteYour day lilies are gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteCodex: the eye, the possum and Minnie sounds like a horror movie. Saw my first green meteorite. Very cool.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great week. I'm sorry you missed the excitement at SHARE - you must have been VERY FOCUSED that day. I'm sorry it's so hot & dry. Meanwhile, I wore a sweatshirt to church & we might get storms...
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear that your eye is responding to treatment. It’s always nice to see well. In even challenging spaces diminished by profanity.
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