A Little Bit More Clarity in Everyday Ramblings

The big park by the river yesterday. It is actually raining a tiny bit today, unlike yesterday where it only threatened in a visibly dramatic fashion.

I am getting started on promoting the PT Club. It won’t hurt to try for the summer to see if it is a go.

For the garden I ordered some net framing hoops that should be here mid-week next week. In the meantime, there is a new nasturtium flower (so exciting) and I may get a marigold flower or two next week. I am also germinating columbine seeds. Of all my tomato starts (because I didn’t know what I was doing) I only have two left that are growing a real leaf in the center. Learn by doing, oh yeah.

Walking with Charity yesterday, (she was working off something she wasn’t sharing, and it was a fast walk because of that) I talked about my opinion about the yoga teacher who is so thin she triggers my disordered thinking about body image.

Charity had no time for this line of pondering at all. She says, okay, say you are an alcoholic. You don’t go into a bar and start commenting on how there are so many folks in there not admitting they have a drinking problem. You stop drinking and stay out of bars and hang out with folks that support your journey.

She is right. I wasn’t happy to hear this and got quiet but when I got home, I unfollowed the teacher on Instagram and unsubscribed to her podcast. I feel sad, because I found her knowledge of anatomy and body mechanics helpful in my teaching. But that comes in what I perceive of as package of ignorance and entitlement that I need to let go of. So long, been good to know you.

I will need to find a new Diary name for The Guy Who Lives in His Car, as he doesn’t anymore. A week from tomorrow I am getting together with him and the Sherlocks in their garden for lunch. It is like getting the band back together. The four of us were sharing the holidays regularly before the break with Mr. Sherlock and The Guy Who No Longer Lives in His Car and that was pretty shortly before lockdown. We are now all fully vaccinated. Or will be by then.

Most Honorable turns in his grades next week for his last term as a tenured professor. He will still be teaching in the fall but as a part time professor emeritus. This has been such a difficult high wire act year for educators. My heartful appreciate goes out to all of you for all that incredible adapting into the unknown that has been going on.

I am hoping, we have a tentative date, for a long walk up here next week. I am going to see if I can rope him into helping me get the netting up and go for a walk and maybe go to the food cart for the best fish and chips (salmon) in the whole world.

Signs of reentry everywhere.

Mrs. Sherlock and I are planning a walk tomorrow and maybe that trip to the big nursery we missed last week.

Diego’s labs all came back healthy and normal. Yay! The vet was thrilled. He’s had his B-12 shot this morning and is sitting here next to me trying to use telepathy to communicate his dire need for a treat. We shall see.

For now, though, I have my rain pants on and a date with the grocery.

Last updated June 15, 2021