This one. I’ve only see parts of it, and there are places i’d love to go back to, slowly…maybe Canada, we all pretty much share a language, and im half canadian anyway, eh?
Month: June 2025
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rain rain rain…
it would seem that late June in North America should be considered some form of ‘warm’. Right now the temperature is hovering around 60 degrees F. and we have had early morning fires (usually in the stove, unless I drop the matches) and wooly sweaters…two days of rain, and then we mow the lawns like things possessed on the warm (hahaha warm, she says)day, look up and here comes the rain again…I could stand a stiff bout of that “global warming’ about now…on a positive note, our little streamlets and swamp at the bottom of the road have filled up nicely, for the first time in years there is serious water in that swamp bed. I keep hoping for a turtle.
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my house. It was built in 1790 and it still works very well…
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having my own car. I was late to learning to drive, and for years I had my own little Honda, which i loved. It took me to Iowa city and back, three years running. When it finally died of old age I was lost…we live out in the country, several miles from any town, and while I still had my husband’s car, it wasn’t the same. Too big, too unwieldy. I sulked a lot. Finally about two months ago, we found one that suited me perfectly. It’s not about needing a car, but it gives me a freedom I don’t get in his.
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Doctors and other strange things
A disappointing realization; minor, perhaps, but still sad. I have been going to a ‘new’ doctor for about a year. Nice man, easy to talk to: I finally realized that not once has he taken my pulse, my temperature, or listened to my heart. His main concern is my ‘dangerously high’ cholesterol level (new fad, now) and my weight. This, from a man who tends to the tubby side himself. shame on him. So far all he has done is suggest I might like to lose some weight (without asking what I do for exercise) and would I be interested in taking Crestor again. Since it fried my brain the last time, I suspect probably not. He did give me a nice circle this time, and asked me to ‘draw a clock’. No medical history (or none that I know he has seen), and it always seems as if he’s not all that interested.
Last doctor I went to was much older and the kind that could read a patient just by listening to them, and watching how they moved, sat, and stood. He told me stuff I didn’t even know about myself, lol.
I regret not going back to him. I think we could have done well .
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Fussing
feeling a bit nostalgic today, maybe a bit sad not sure why; heard from an old friend that goes back wow thirty years or more. REALLY old friend. It sometimes starts up memories, some good, some bad, and I begin to realize that most of what I have now is all there will be; roads walked, mountains hiked, gardens planted and then abandoned. I am looking at my final cat, who is thirteen. He is about the 24th cat in my history, and probably the last.
I gave up on my garden adventures about ten years ago, realizing that I would need to drag a walker along so I could get back up off my knees…no. Just no…so to mitigate that, last year I planted a sprig of lilac bush near the house, and it’s taken hold beautifully–and this year bought the last of the seed potatoes and planted thirteen sprouts. we shall see how that works.
Realized that 40 year old doctors are no longer doctors, they are referrers, and all they do is ask questions and suggest that I might like to ‘try that pill once more” and find out that my careful ‘no’ means NO. And this time around they slid a piece of paper at me, with a circle on it. “draw a clock’. aaaaahhhh. You hit 80 and now you are considered fodder for the rest home. This one wanted to have me go through an osteoporosis check and once I realized what was involved, I decided at my age this is the last thing I need, including the self-injections at home. Oh I don’t think so. Google is a wonder for interpreting these things. =)
(However, we did see a bear on the game camera, which was cheering; nice to know they’re out there still. )
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Morning? Again?”
It seems to be morning again
They come faster, now, and don’t last nearly as long as before. Remember lazing about in the sun, or under a tree, waiting forever for lunch to be ready…and how long it took before you could finish school for the day, the week, the year…?
Does anyone else do this…look up old classmates to see which ones might have died or moved or whatever? I have four classmates who have all moved to Hawaii, that seems the place to go, and since I’ve lost contact with all of them, for whatever reasons, I just check now and then to be sure they’re still functioning…
Been a cold spring, I don’t think the temps have gotten much above 60 for the entire month. I can hardly wait for it to catch up to itself, and we suddenly are in the 90s..ouch…
This is a lady coyote I saw not long ago standing at the edge of our field. she looked so sad…I
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Mine would be an endless supply of chocolate with coconut filling. Emphasis on the word “endless”
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Car day for me
took my new (well, new to me)car out for it’s first for-real trip today; groceries, swirling all around the city, finding my way around without getting humungously lost. (It’s a gift, trust me. Getting lost is FUN) For the first time in way too long I did the grocery shopping, and had forgotten how much walking is involved. Right now my legs are protesting like weary three year olds, but if I can keep this up, we’ll all be happier for it.
and I LOVE THAT CAR. =)
