Monday, August 10

Today I am grateful for:

Overall my general mood has improved this last while. Mainly because it's not raining every day. It just feels less hopeless. We still haven't made progress on the house, but we've moved most of the dirt pile, and picked up most of the junk in the yard.

Going to town today to get groceries. I still did some recreational shopping. I found the most gorgeous silk skirt at Winners for twelve dollars!

I have to say, things just don't feel like they used to. The concern about COVID overlays every experience. The whole time I'm in town, you're aware of needing to distance, and not touch things if you don't need to, and wear a mask. You're aware of other people not doing these things. There aren't any movies being released right now, and things just seem a lot quieter. There's an odd tension in the grocery store.

I was buying groceries today with the consideration that if we are fortunate with the weather and so on, my sweetie and another couple we trade work with will get going on the addition this next weekend. I don't expect it to be finished, but if we can get the frame up and standing, that will be a good start.

I really miss people. The only person I really see anymore is my husband, and his current work schedule barely gives him time to come home and sleep. Then, on his days at home, it's all work no play. We have so much to do all the time, we can't seem to find any time to go to the lake, or do anything fun. I haven't been seeing any of my friends at the barn the last few weeks, and I didn't have lessons for a while because of the heat. I spend almost all of my time at home, alone, and a lot of it at night now. I worry about this upcoming winter, because it really doesn't seem like this will be over by then. If anything, it will likely be worse again because of kids going back to school. I still won't have a pottery studio to go to either.

I went ahead and processed a bit more of the honeycomb that we still had sitting in a rubbermaid container. I couldn't stomach processing much, it was too full of larvae and dead bees. I got almost a litre just from the honey that had collected at the bottom, and this is the nicest anyhow. A very light, sharp taste. The honey I got from lightly heating some of the combs is darker and still tastes excellent, but has a different taste.

Sunday:

Some friends of ours popped by. The husband's parents live just down the road from us, and they were there for brunch. It's so tough for us to do spontaneous visits, because of our sleep schedule. We were still in bed when they pulled up, and my sweetie got up to talk to them, and I got up too.

A good ride on River. He seems to have a bit of coughing once he's working, and I hope that doesn't mean that the new hay they have is dusty. We had a good ride though, and he was pretty relaxed.

My trainwreck sister says she's getting lots of calls about her stuff from the ads I put up. Now it sounds like her plan is to raise some money by selling stuff and move somewhere closer to her kids but NOT BOTHER SELLING THE PROPERTY. She's thinking of just draining the pipes and...just keeping it for storage. She just doesn't see being able to sell it if she doesn't clean it out, and she can't see being able to clean it out. Likely, this means that at some point it will just be abandoned for unpaid taxes. What's sad, is this was pretty much exactly how she does everything. Just not face the issue and walk away.