Life is just speeding by! The days and weeks and months...I still can't believe I'm sixty years old. A sixty year old, in my book, is an old person. Sometimes my body feels old, but I am personally NOT an old person. Sometimes I think If I'm lucky, I'll get another twenty years..., and we all know that twenty years is nothing, goes by in a blink. I've been writing this blog for over 18 years! We know that it's not our business how much time we have, and I am not dwelling on it, just a thought that goes through my brain.
Anyway, I am thankful for today. My day has been excellent. I got up and went to the pool. It has gotten a little easier, more routine to go. I park in the back, phone the front desk, and they so nicely unlock the door for me and I don't have the long trip down the sidewalk.
The locker room and the pool deck can be very wet and slippery, so I go slowly as to not lose traction with my cane, and the water shoes help. The ramp into the pool is a nice gradual decline, with a railing...I take the slowest mincing steps, but then when I reach the bottom, ahhh, in the water I can walk so nicely!!!!
When I got home, I was taking off my shoes when I heard Cam talking to Sonja about going someplace. They dithered and discussed, then decided it was a good day for Target. Yes, I would like to go too!
Sonja dropped me off in the front, so I didn't have to navigate the parking lot, with Char. We went in and ordered a coffee and sat down to wait for Sonja, Kaia, and Camille. Traipsing through the store was rather uneventful, I did buy a new pair of "readers". I wanted something new for my trip, a dress or a sweater, or a top that looks fantastic, makes me look really thin, and was cheap. ha. I did not find anything. There was a really pretty button down sweater, with elbow length sleeves, but it was cropped. I did buy peanut M&Ms for the flight, unless someone has a nut allergy, and also some beef jerky, and some gum. I bought stuff for a salad for dinner, and a new sweatshirt for Miss Char.
I didn't want to speak too soon, but as soon as I got in the car I said: my knee didn't buckle one single time in Target!!! I walked around more than last time, too! Now I'm not saying I was racing up and down the aisles, but it is getting slowly and incrementally better.
I need to get up and move again. I'm chilled because the pool water has been rather cold. But, I have laundry to put in the dryer, and a load of towels to wash. Charlotte Claire gave Sunny a bath, and used a pile. :)
Now it it Saturday night. I got up this fine morning, after a rough night: Sunny whined to go out around one a.m., then again around five. I don't know if she wasn't feeling well or what, but I hobbled down the hallway and let her out, waited for her to come back in, and settled back into bed.
Beef stew was on the menu, so I dredged the meat in flour with onion, garlic, salt and pepper, browned it up, then put it in the crock pot with beef broth, some bullion cubes, a few packets of brown gravy mix, a bag of mini red skinned potatoes, baby carrots, and some cubed carrots.
The day was warm, I think 40 degrees and sunny! Margaret came over with Wulf, Tenny, and Blythe, and Kathryn with Achilles, Rhys, Jamie, and Ellis, then Sonja with baby Kaia....Evelyn also came over for a bit. We spent a bit of time out on the deck. Marge and Kap shoveled some snow away so the kids could drive around in their Little Tikes cars. I was out there in bare feet, it was so nice.
Kathryn brought stuff to make little pigs-in-a-blanket for the kids (mini hot dogs with crescent rolls), she also sliced up some apples, so they had a nice snack-lunch, then Margaret made a pizza with them. Some of them liked the stew, and we had a cozy dinner. Sonja played hide-and-seek and matching game with them. There were quieter times, and noisier times, but it was a really fun day that went by too fast.
Now it is quiet again...and it will snow again tonight, and get cold again...oh well. Spring WILL come.
You all have a good night!
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