Temperature stayed 60 degrees all through the night last night. Tonight will be high thirties. Cloudy, misty, dreary day. It's hard for me to get motivated on these days. My doctor told me to find a reason to get out of the house every day to avoid isolation. Suddenly a multitude of tasks starting popping into my head. A friend suggested I list everything on paper then tackle one at a time leaving the others for another time. Once I listed the tasks I really didn't want to tackle any of them. So I filled the red Toyota with recycles and trash bags and headed off to the transfer station avoiding my list. From the transfer station I went to Mike's Seafood for a blackened salmon lunch, to watch others eat and talk, then bought some servings of cod and salmon for the freezer. It's harder to find peace on these darkest gloomy days. But that's expected and I'm okay with that.............
Some days are full of doing tasks and chores that Cliff did for me. The floor wasn't that dirty but he enjoyed saying. "Guess I need to pull out the vacuum. I'm tripping over debris." I thanked him. Whenever I was in the kitchen trying out new recipes, making cookies or the double batch tapioca pudding for him, he was there beside (getting in my way sometimes) washing the utensils, pots/pans, cutting boards, drying them and putting everything back in their proper places only to have me take some things back out and reuse again. "I just washed that" he would state. He learned to ask if I were through with things before he cleaned up after me. I thanked him. He emptied the dishwasher when it was finished in such an orderly manner (getting in my way sometimes because I was also in the kitchen working but he wanted to be there with me). I thanked him. Every morning he made my bed reminding me of the order that the pillows needed to be placed. John&
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