I was being lazy this morning: laying in bed and playing Woodoku on the phone – the plan was to lay there and progress several levels up before the phone ran dead and need to be recharged … then go back to sleep for a bit; generally, just being lazy because I could be 😉
Then, an
incoming call interrupted my big Woodoku move … request for a hiking partner at
10 AM. I looked at the time – 30 minutes to rise and shine. Last night’s weather forecast had predicted a
high-80’s to mid-90’s temperature for today. Perfect for being lazy; I am
not a heat lover. My hair wilts, and I physically melt as my scorched lungs
struggle to keep my body balanced and functioning in {alive} mode. Lazy
works well for me when the outdoor temperatures rise above 75-degrees.
But I do like to hike; and I
enjoy company when I can get it, while hiking.
My Lazy Day Plan had been
upended …
Mentally I visualized the
overflowing clothes hamper (which I planned to empty tomorrow) – and knew
my best shorts were waiting, in the hamper. I do have a spare pair of shorts,
so pulled those out of the closet and yanked a tee off a hanger: then, I
decided I wanted sunshine on my shoulders (for a nice summer tan effect), so I
rehung the tee, and pulled a light summery top over my head.
I quickly deduced that the
shorts will never work for me – I wore them today because they were all that
was available to wear, but they are out the door after today: they will never
look right with any top because they do not {fit} my figure, or stature. I’m
thinking the frilly top will be scrapped too: it’s a nice top, but
reviewing the pictures, I’m thinking it isn’t for me. But it’s what was
available to me this morning, so I wore it.
I didn’t get any eye-rolling
sideways stares while out and about, so apparently the outfit passed mustard
with the masses – but I’m still scrapping it because it doesn’t “pass” with me.
The hike was easy, and enjoyable
(no pics because my friend is shy). 4 days into summer, and we finally get
summer heat: 95-degrees this afternoon. It was actually a perfect day – even though
the temperature was high, the humidity was not; so, my hair didn’t melt and my
body wasn't thrown into survival mode 😊
After we finished the hike, I
came home and watered my flowerbeds and veggie garden area. I could have put
that off a day or two, but my lazy day plans had been upended and I was dressed
and out-of-house … so I watered all the hanging flower pots, all the bulb
containers (to keep the resting Fall bulbs from drying to death), and
all the veggie garden boxes. I also swept the carport so it looks tidy: all that
activity took about 2 hours.
Because we really had no
Spring to speak of with the late-season cold snap and snowfall, and torrential
rainfall until recently; I’m not sure my flowerbeds or veggie garden will
produce much of anything this year. The apple trees are full of baby apples, and
the blueberries are setting fruit – but the strawberries are struggling, the onions drowned, the beans and squash were chewed to nubs by slugs ... and
the flowerbeds look spotty. If they rebound, fine … if they don’t, there’s always
next year. The earth cycles as it was designed to do and every now and
then we get a bum year: maybe the weather will behave next year.
This year, I’ll just keep
watering, reseeding vegetable plants that will match the harvest timeline, and
not stress about anything. I really don’t need a veggie garden this year (I
have plenty in the freezer from last year), but gardening is in by DNA –
gotta do it, no matter what 😉
After the hoses were
unhooked from the faucets and rolled into their containers under the faucets, I
decided this afternoon would be the day I tackled sitting on {the bench}. I’ve
been avoiding that – no real reason to avoid sitting on it, other than that the coho bench is “Bob’s bench”: I bought it for Bob (his youngest brother Kerry, designed and crafted it), and it’s almost become a sacred thing
since his spirit left Earth 3½ years ago.
But it needs to
be used; if it’s taking up space …
it needs to be used.
It’s stupid for
me not to sit on it – if Bob were
still here, we’d both be sitting on it, side by side: and now, Bob will never
sit on it again. It’s stupid for me to let my emotions trip me up; so,
this afternoon, I mentally prepared my self to sit on it.
The weather is warming up.
My lungs are doing remarkably well, and I can be outside without struggling. I’d
like to enjoy sitting on my front porch, enjoying the sunshine. Sitting
on the coho bench.
Before I called it a day, and
got laundry underway (‘lazy’ was officially off the radar by now) – I
pulled the solar lights I’d bought earlier this year, out of the shed; and got
them ready to soak up the day’s sunrays 😊
They look real nice in the
twilight – and they shine nicely when there is no longer any light in the night
sky.
Before I came back inside, I
noticed a sliver of pink cloud … odd, but kinda pretty, too 😉
It’s been a good Shabbat –
not the lazy kind of day I had hoped for, but the perfect kind of day Elohim
planned for me 😊
