I have been fighting a cold and bronchial complications
for at least a week and a half. Yesterday I didn’t even bother getting out of
bed – I just hauled everything onto the bed with me and camped out there: my
laptop to watch old black-n-white movies on, Kleenex, bed remote, phone, coffee
(had a thermos of coffee on the bathroom
counter for refills, and that is as far as I crept from the bed for the last 24
hours), and my half-finished donation lapghans to finish up:
This morning I looked out the livingroom window to
see how much snow we still had left on the ground, and noticed the snow is
pretty much gone … snow melted off with the icy rain that fell last night; leaving
an icy frost behind.
Everywhere I look is white …
White street outside my livingroom window:
Early a.m.
9 a.m.
White rooftops across the way …
White grass across the street:
White gravel out front of our home – I hope the
little Tete a Tete daffodils & hens-n-chicks sedums we planted when we moved here 18 months ago survive;
the daffodils were just starting to sprout up …
White cactus still pumping out blossoms inhouse:
Even the lapghan I am currently finishing up is
intercepted with white …
Today I am going to try to stay out of bed, and
hopefully get past the dizzying light-headedness: getting outside into fresh air would probably help with that. I have made it as far as my
recliner with a cup of warming tea at hand in the livingroom so far. Outside fresh air isn't going to be happening today.
A stuffy head and nose, and bronchitis, makes it
hard to talk - gotta force every breath out. Makes my heart work extra hard too.
But fighting this cold has cooled my jets enough
to slow me down/pin me down/force me to work steady on interrupted projects to
finish them up. I was able to finish up the 2nd lapghan last evening ;-)
Two weeks ago, while in town for Keengers, I was able
to stop by Joanne’s and buy a skein apiece of the main contrast colors to finish
up the half-completed lapghans. So while I have been laid low with this cold,
and housebound with the snowfall, I finished up the black ripple lapghan this past Friday ...
... the blue ripple lapghan last evening; and should have the white ripple
lapghan done sometime tonight. As soon as the roads clear, they will all be ready to take
into town and drop off at the local hospital. Then, I think I will make some
baby beanies as well as some beanies for the cancer ward. Until our hospital ordeal
I did not realize how much these things mean to patients and their families – though
I always considered myself a compassionate and empathetic person, I was
ignorant of the depth of compassion and empathy a chronically and terminally
ill person requires. My husband’s illness and death honed, and drove, those emotions
home. So if I can help – in any way possible – to repay the kindness shown us while we
walked in the shadows of the valley of death … I will do what I can do with
what I have to offer. I have the skill of my hands to offer, a cache of yarn, and time to put them to use.
So on this white day, I am going to get busy on
finishing the white lapghan after I post this White post ;-)
And in this small way, I will also be honoring my
husband, who is now clad in a brilliantly shining white robe in that golden
streeted city we refer to as home beyond the white clouds.
I love you Babe. I always did think you looked
good in white.
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