All Eyes on the Sparrow in Everyday Ramblings

So Stanley is kind of sort of mostly gone. Somebody else is feeding her. Yesterday evening after I put my birdfeeders back up she thumped up on to my porch railing next to my seed feeder expectantly and scared the heck out of Sam who was in my lap at the time. I haven’t seen her at all today.

The chickadees and house sparrows are cautiously returning. Seeing them again makes me inordinately happy. Apparently I have obligation limits and Stanley hit them. I just couldn’t take on this one more thing.

Next Thursday we leave for our short four-day, three-night vacation on the river in the woods and because of said obligations the logistics of preparing to be away on my end are daunting.

The news from Seattle is sobering. Further analysis on my oldest sister’s lab results did show additional cancer cells outside the surgery site. She is clear she wants quality of life and is refusing additional chemo, total nutrition and hospitalization. And her wounds are being troublesome. They are all discouraged and overwhelmed up there.

And now I have to have yet another complex multi-appointment expensive as all get out dental procedure scheduled in early July. Talk about discouraging. And evolution. The design of my particular mouth and jaws… definitely needs improvement.

Sammy is spending more and more time in his fort in the closet. I know this is a sign he is getting ready to go but there may be a respite. I so hope I’ll know when it is time. In the meantime, when he is out and about we are spending as much quality time together as possible.

I think the fact that I am so single is making the acceptance of my upcoming 60th birthday next week more difficult. It is the attractiveness factor, don’t you know…

I am not going to mention the local school shooting, okay?

On the positive side, and there is one, the markets are bursting with fresh yummy berries and cherries, oh joy. Dark chocolate almond milk on a half cup of fresh blueberries and raspberries yum yum. I am still enjoying teaching and our afternoons have been filled with warmth and light to offset the dark damp mornings.

I am reading and listening to wonderful books. My weight is stable and someone I trained up last week sent me some free movie tickets in gratitude. The training at work, now one on one for stragglers, is great fun for me. I am proud of our project and people love it.

Everything out there is extravagant with late spring green and the hydrangeas are coming on. :)