Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Positively Tuesday-Need Fresh Air

         

I took this last summer with DD1 at a sunflower farm. 

     The air quality warnings are getting a bit old-you can feel it when outside. I can't imagine what those north of us are feeling. My brother who camps every week, then heads back to base camp (AKA my sisters) cut short his trip last week and is heading south this week to try and avoid. While there are hints that vaccination rates are going up in places with scary low rates, it's not as fast as I think we need. I read comments on a new link and man, are there still people who are bound and determined to make vaccinations part of a one world order conspiracy, and Dr Fauci is Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin rolled into one. I need to stop doing that-reading comments is nothing but anxiety inducing! Personally, a couple crap things have happened this week that have me frustrated, and it's easy to start a negative spiral. In my quest to not turn into a crabby old lady and look for the things that make me smile, give me joy, or are a simple pleasure, here's my weekly post of  10 things of any of those. 

  1. The  office space is coming along despite there being more work than I thought it would be. I am so grateful for my daughters help.
  2. I found  a book, the last Elisabeth Ogilvie Book, The Day Before Winter, her last in the Bennet's Island series, when we were sorting books for donation. It made me really pleased as I thought I had left it somewhere. 
  3. The purging continued, and thanks to my daughter, I got rid of things that on my own, for no good reason, I would have held onto. This included both a Home Interior book and a holiday craft book-huge books that I doubt I have even opened in 10+ years, let alone used. Also in that last donation were another 1/2 dozen "coffee table" books, again, ones no one has opened in a decade. 
  4. DD1 and I treated ourselves to Dunn Brothers coffee on Saturday morning. Nothing like real cream. We also sat outside at least for a little while before the  heat and humidity increased and before diving into more work. 
  5. Two delicious dinners out over the weekend. Friday DH and I went out and were a touch after the diner crowd, making it a more relaxed  meal.  Sunday was delicious as well at what was my parents favorite restaurant, and we went there to honor what would be their  74th anniversary.  
  6. Sunday's adds had all the school supplies promoted. What brings me a smile is knowing I don't have to go school supply shopping! DD2 is set with a  5 Star notebook, pens, and mechanical pencils. 
  7. the air seemed a bit better Sunday night and it had cooled down so I took pup for a long walk when we got home from our mela out. A family in the neighborhood was out biking-mom with a baby in a bike basket, dad pulling a little guy in a trailer, and two little guys on their own bikes. These little guys love pup and of course, wanted to pet them. Pup was very good letting them give him all the love. We make sure to tell kids they have to put their hands out first, and let him initiate smell and contact so he is calm. It was cute that the older of the two boys on bikes-maybe six at the oldest, remembered and told his younger brother the rule, and showed his brothers how he puts his hand out. 
  8. Yesterday I had a very productive day at work and knocked of quite a few things ahead of schedule. That's a very good thing as there is a massive issue that just surfaced this morning and will take more time to resolve than I  have free on my calendar. 
  9. I actually made a sort of meal plan for the week, potentially buying me time until Saturday to have to go grocery shopping. While may not be a simple pleasure, it is avoidance of something I don't like to do. 
  10. I had a fall last night. My knee just gave out when I took a step and I went splat, across the floor. A grateful thing that despite a hard fall, I didn't get injured. I missed hitting my desk with my head by what was probably inches. I'm not even particularly sore this morning.
  11. ....and a quick edit to add, my REader List has now come back for Blogger!!!
     Next week I'll be off work and hoping I can  ease through the rest of the week with drama subsided, and work issues contained. Ihope you have more pleasure's than pain, more smiles than frowns, and have a perfectly positive Tuesday. 

15 comments:

  1. I am working to a positive Tuesday, but it's off to a late start. DH and were sitting on the patio, and had just finished a glass of wine. I was ready to go cook a pasta dinner, when a neighbor showed up at the door. What could I do but ask him to the patio and offer a glass of wine? And, while we are at it, why not drink another one ourselves? Dinner wasn't until 7, about 2 hours later for us, which meant a lousy night's sleep, which meant still asleep at 8:45 when my contractor rang the bell to ask about windows. Thankfully DH handled it for me! All in all, though, it was a great evening, and the day is, if getting long in the tooth, shaping up to be a good one! Thanks for the good wishes. Here's to a nice, cleansing dose of rain and wind for you!

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    1. I have had those slow starts due to a few too manysips the night before. It's not a hangover as I don't drink enough to cause that, but that slow and dehydrated morning.

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  2. Yeah I can read you again! Blogger and their glitches. The air quality here is so bad. We are in a very low vacc state and it is so frustrating. I just want to slap people and most are our relations.

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    1. I'll feel really sad for families hit with a new wave-while frustrated for all of us, I don't wish anyone to be ill.

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  3. The other day, my knee sort of gave way, but I managed not to fall. It was very scary! I look around at things I might have hit! Scary fall for you! But, at least you were not hurt. I hate people have to endure smoky skies and air. I would have terrible trouble with asthma. People must be suffering!

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    1. Ihad been sitting too long and didn't get motion before stepping-I sould have prepared better. I'm glad you did not fall.

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  4. I wonder why I never had a bit of problem with blogger.

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  5. What a beautiful photo Sam. Thanks for putting it up. Arilx

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    1. That was a lovley (but hot) day with my daughter and friend. It felt good to be outside away, but near people.

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  6. What a beautiful picture! Getting to the local sunflower farm is a bucket list item for me. The tour yesterday went really well, all three of us loved the first campus we went to, not so much the second one. We plan on visiting another school next week. The visit yesterday was just over an hour away, not too close and not too far. It was very exciting! I came into multiple messes at work today but was able to handle everything easily. Sometimes it’s nice to push through some challenges. The weather here is fairly moderate. Not warm enough to swim but still need to keep the air conditioning on because it gets stuffy without out. No smoke or air quality action days, thankfully. We started wearing masks again at work today and several big name stores, schools and attractions locally are now requiring them. You are definitely better off not reading comments. I wonder how people can be so clueless, ignorant, ridiculous, take your pick! I heard a funny/interesting phrase yesterday while we were casually chatting with a professor, who I originally thought was an exterminator or pest inspector lol (it’s a long story!) “pre-learning tantrum” When you are resistant or not receptive to learning something, don’t want to do it and kick and scream a little before you have to get started. It’s been stuck in my head since I heard it and I feel like it could be applied to many different things ;) JoAnn

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    1. I think it will be another trip when ihave some days off in the near future. There is a lot of mean and ignorant people out there-preleanring tantrum is a great phrase.

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  7. I love the photo! Sunflowers rock! x

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    1. Sunflowers and daisy's both make me happy!

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  8. I can't believe all these people suffering from the tremendous heat - although why I can't beats me. It's normal this time of year or at least it should be. We're still having crap weather and it JUST made it to 16°C (60°F) today accompanied by constant rain. Unbelievable! Oh, and I'm glad you didn't do too much damage with that fall. It's scary stuff isn't it!

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