Thursday, October 30
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Our friends finding our place without too much trouble, which makes me feel good that I gave good directions.
We had another very good visit, they enjoyed our nearby city a lot (not too big, not too small).
I gave them a tour of the house, and I'm glad I did all that cleaning, even if they weren't here that long. I wouldn't have felt comfortable having them here if the house was a mess.
They did take some pottery. Yay!
They met the animals, and had a quick look at the shed construction.
We headed to the park down the road, but they didn't have time to hike, so we let their dogs have some off-leash time and talked some more.
They do seem pretty solidly interested in coming to Canada, and I feel like there's no time like the present, before things get too hard for them to leave.
It was surreal to see this fellow, that I knew from so long ago, and surreal to see them leave again, not knowing if I'll see them again in person.
I have had others from our life in Wyoming come visit us, we haven't been back. It has the same strange sensation every time of feeling...very precious.
It was again, a lot of information sharing, lots of emotions, and a lot of socializing.
I came home, had a bit of quiet time, then talked with my friend D from pottery over the phone.
She's having a very rough time. We haven't had a REAL talk in a few weeks, and she's been having issues with one of her lungs being over filled (hyperinflated), and they do not know what's causing it, so they're going to be doing tests. She's having a lot of pain and inflammation on the same side of the body as the lung, and also eye inflammation causing cataracts on the back of her eye.
She needs surgery for the eye, and will be doing that soon.
She was talking about down sizing her life and possessions before all of this, and now it seems that it's probably a good idea to start shopping for a new home, and clearing out things.
It's likely all very shocking and hard to deal with.
On top of that, her adult daughter who has schizophrenia had a life collapse and is back with D, even though she's only been away for a few months from living at home for about a year from her last life collapse.
D is just DONE with her daughter, who doesn't seem to seek treatment or stay on her meds, or seems to pursue things that might help her live her life in a more stable fashion.
We had a pretty heavy, emotional conversation about her life changing, her daughter being very stressful and so on.
We also talked about her pottery equipment, which we are going to buy from her, and kind of working up to getting ready to get it out of her house and into the pottery shed.z
It's a bit surreal to think how close we're getting to a long time dream of having our own pottery studio.
My Sweetie got home from work and headed straight to the pottery shed to do a bit more work on the electrical stuff.
We talked and watched "Prey", a "predator" movie. It was good, if you like that kind of thing.
Our friends finding our place without too much trouble, which makes me feel good that I gave good directions.
We had another very good visit, they enjoyed our nearby city a lot (not too big, not too small).
I gave them a tour of the house, and I'm glad I did all that cleaning, even if they weren't here that long. I wouldn't have felt comfortable having them here if the house was a mess.
They did take some pottery. Yay!
They met the animals, and had a quick look at the shed construction.
We headed to the park down the road, but they didn't have time to hike, so we let their dogs have some off-leash time and talked some more.
They do seem pretty solidly interested in coming to Canada, and I feel like there's no time like the present, before things get too hard for them to leave.
It was surreal to see this fellow, that I knew from so long ago, and surreal to see them leave again, not knowing if I'll see them again in person.
I have had others from our life in Wyoming come visit us, we haven't been back. It has the same strange sensation every time of feeling...very precious.
It was again, a lot of information sharing, lots of emotions, and a lot of socializing.
I came home, had a bit of quiet time, then talked with my friend D from pottery over the phone.
She's having a very rough time. We haven't had a REAL talk in a few weeks, and she's been having issues with one of her lungs being over filled (hyperinflated), and they do not know what's causing it, so they're going to be doing tests. She's having a lot of pain and inflammation on the same side of the body as the lung, and also eye inflammation causing cataracts on the back of her eye.
She needs surgery for the eye, and will be doing that soon.
She was talking about down sizing her life and possessions before all of this, and now it seems that it's probably a good idea to start shopping for a new home, and clearing out things.
It's likely all very shocking and hard to deal with.
On top of that, her adult daughter who has schizophrenia had a life collapse and is back with D, even though she's only been away for a few months from living at home for about a year from her last life collapse.
D is just DONE with her daughter, who doesn't seem to seek treatment or stay on her meds, or seems to pursue things that might help her live her life in a more stable fashion.
We had a pretty heavy, emotional conversation about her life changing, her daughter being very stressful and so on.
We also talked about her pottery equipment, which we are going to buy from her, and kind of working up to getting ready to get it out of her house and into the pottery shed.z
It's a bit surreal to think how close we're getting to a long time dream of having our own pottery studio.
My Sweetie got home from work and headed straight to the pottery shed to do a bit more work on the electrical stuff.
We talked and watched "Prey", a "predator" movie. It was good, if you like that kind of thing.
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Date: 2025-11-01 06:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-11-01 07:42 am (UTC)My family and my husband's family seem to appreciate it.
It is a very personal thing, and likely not that common to receive hand made pottery directly from the maker.
What else do you give people that feels personal, besides something you've made?