November 4, 2024

 

Tomorrow is Election Day.  I am planning to go to the lake house and stay a few days. It just feels like after so many years and so many election days there, that's where I should be tomorrow.  I also have FINALLY found a family-owned window company that will put in the windows that I've desperately needed for a number of years now.  They will meet me there tomorrow around noon.  :)  As Liz A just said to me, I bid you PEACE.

November 1, 2024

Random pictures

It's a grey, drizzly day and I'm lazy.  Lots of housework that I should be doing but only want to laze around drinking coffee, reading online, thinking about it being November already, and wishing for things and places that I haven't figured out how to make happen yet.  *sigh* 

I admit I did nothing all day-- but ride ---5 miles---for 50 minutes on the bike trainer (50 minutes)! 

Happy Halloween

Beautiful Mid-October Day

 

                                                                        Harvest Moon

Time around here is on super-speed at times, and at other times, it moves as slow as molasses.  I continue to heal and improve from the surgeries last year, with fluid retention and shortness of breath still being  issues that the doctors say I shouldn't be having since the echocardiograms show that my heart has healed beautifully.  Irregardless, I still have those problems.  I have been riding my bike on my Wahoo trainer most days.  I have done this for the last 2 months and I'm up to 43 minutes and 4 miles on it.  I rode my outside bike last Saturday and it was wonderful.  Rode 10 miles.  My friend, Joannie, came for a visit this past Monday, and we took a walk on the Greenbelt which is near my house.  We walked 2.81 miles, the longest walk I've been on since all of this heart stuff started last Spring.  I am making progress.  :)

I love October and am reveling in these beautiful days.  The skies are unbelievably blue and the leaves are slowly starting to turn. 
We had our first frost yesterday morning, and we had some this morning, but it's going to warm back up again.  I'm hoping that I will be able to get back outside on my bike while the weather is still warm.

September

These early days of September have been breathtaking.  There's an underlying nip to the air that says that Fall is on its way, and we will be moving from voicing how hot it is to how cold it is.  Such is life, right, for we human creatures.  :)

95 Deg. Today

 

I have been staying inside, which is hard for me (mentally), but this heart condition does not tolerate the heat very well.   I will be glad when it cools off some (which is supposed to happen soon) and can be outside some and not have the air conditioning running constantly.  I'm grateful to have the air conditioning but right now one of the meds that I'm on causes me to chill.  

It's Labor Day Weekend.  Like so many other holidays, it used to be a big one in my family.  Those days are mostly over.  I have no plans.  

The End of August

Spring faded into Summer and Summer is fading into Autumn (although 92 degrees argues makes one wonder).  I had no idea it had been so long since I visited my blog.  I  am continuing to heal from the heart surgery last August.

Good Friday/Easter Weekend

That little fur doll is Cassie.  My neighbor was pup sitting for a couple of days and we both just adore Cassie.  We brought her over to my house to check out these big cats.  :). 

I colored my Easter eggs.  Wouldn't be Easter without colored eggs.  Then my niece suggested finding some fabric to dye with the dye and look!!!  They are delightful!!  I may cut up some more men's hankies and use up some more of the egg dye.  They are luscious.

Hope everyone has a beautiful Easter weekend.

I Made It

 

I got up really early and did go to the lake.  That is about an hour's drive for me.  It was a glorious day!  And after I sat and had my initial cry as soon as I got there, I got on with thoroughly enjoying the beautiful day. My closest neighbors are wonderful, and treated me to lunch as well as an open door for drinks and the bathroom.  My water has been cut off for the winter months, and I can't stay at my house until that is turned back on-----and a whole lot of dust and bugs and dirt is gotten up.  As I said, it's been about 2 years since I was there last.  It was very emotional, and so strange without Marlee with me.  My world looks a whole lot different than it did just a couple of years ago.  I am totally exhausted.  I have only been home an hour, so I got in some driving in the dark which I haven't done in years either.  The trip was really good for me in so many ways.

Daydreaming

Our weather is so strange now.  Today is supposed to be 70 and sunny after the fog (which we rarely have and I love!) dissipates.  Tomorrow 74 and sunny.  These warm summer-like days are a delight but throw me off.  They tease me into thinking that it is going to stay this warm from now on without any chillier days/nights, which isn't how it will be.  My heart yearns to be back at the lake, and I may go there tomorrow just to dip my toes back into the life that Randy and I lived there.  There is so much work to be done there, and I have to go back for lengthy periods of time this summer to get some of that done, but for right now, I just need to BE there, even for a few hours.  

I have noticed that I am having more anxiety to deal with in the last month or two.  Is this a normal occurrence after the ordeal that was last year?  I don't know, but it does make it harder for me to spontaneously do things, go places, just get in the car and drive now without a lot of over-thinking.  I am hoping that the more I force myself to do the things that cause me anxiety, that it will lessen over time.  This last year changed me in so many ways, both outwardly and inwardly, that I hardly recognize myself right now. 

March 2024