Wednesday, April 23, 2014 

Cold and windy again today. Walked the pups and fed them, then off to the gym with B and to see M. at the hand therapy office, where I recommended ever-blooming roses as new foundation plantings. Red ones! Should look wonderful. The building needs a spot of color and the roses will hold up under the sun and summer heat on Penn Ave. Back home for breakfast and to meet the Sears serviceman, who is coming to check out the clothes dryer.

Finished cleaning up the basement after the waterproofing and shelving and installation of the new hot water heater. After the serviceman left, I decided to look into new wood stoves as an alternate fuel source in case we lose power. I love researching new things. Spoke with two companies today and have a little footwork to do.

Dogs are asleep now and mom is watching television. Fortunately, I can turn the sound off. She can’t hear it anyhow and watches subtitles for the hearing impaired. Awaiting word from M.T. on work I handed in two days ago. Good to have time off. Hit my foot twice today down the basement. It’s swollen now, so I am going to sit with my feet up for a while. Too windy to work outside and far too cold still to plant anything. Barb, Jerry, (local) Nancy, and I went to Black Rock Garden Center and had a blast. We figure, we all bought enough to pay their bills for the month. Can’t wait to prepare my planters, replace the plants that didn’t make it through the winter, and bring some to this still bleak landscape.

Nancy sent a photo of herself enjoying some sunshine vitamin D. I sent this photo. No vitamin D here and very high winds.

Right now, I am enjoying some dark chocolate from Nuts.com. (Dark chocolate raises the metabolism and helps you lose weight! J) Anyhow, I have dark chocolate covered raisins, dark chocolate coconut haystacks, dark chocolate covered walnuts, and dark chocolate covered orange peel. My gift (they always send a gift along) was dark chocolate covered almonds. I am in pig heaven. Share some with mom, too. Such a gloomy, windy day. The chocolate helps immeasurably!

 

Later—

Fell asleep on the couch with Valentino while I was reading a book on Kindle.

Sandy! (Mom was standing there watching me from the bathroom door. Her third trip in as many minutes.)
What mom?
What are you doing? Sleeping?
Yes, mom. I fell asleep while reading.
Oh. Do you want to sleep with me?
No, mom.
Oh. I’m going in here (walking toward the kitchen). Where should I go? Oh. I’ll go back to my room.
OK, mom.

Not much rest for the weary. Need some sunshine vitamin D! Wind is still howling. Am watching my star magnolia sway wildly and my redbud tree, nearly in bloom. The flowers are not falling gracefully. They are getting brown and dying far too soon. Not sure if we will take our walk in the morning. Betty will call and we’ll make the decision then. I will sneak out with the pups, as usual. Return and feed them, and then awaken mom. And my day will begin anew.