Updatey Stuff

Yesterday, April 19:

Transfer point trip this morning and dropped some packaging materials off at the family farm. Nephew Chris dropped off the walk-behind rototiller.

Snow was mostly gone, so planted carrot seeds and mulched, did a little more light clearing of overwintered weeds, pulled a couple of sets of tomato stakes out of the ground, got stung by a wasp...

Moved the stakes over to where we'll need them next, washed and treated the sting. Took a break and iced it some.

Moved some sticks and stones for a windbreak fence I'm (very) slowly building.

Lyle did some more stuff upstairs in our bedroom, then went wasp hunting in the girls' bedroom while they were out. Also checked the attic, and is pretty sure of the ingress/egress location.

He also took down a major branch on one of the apple trees, which was a multi-step process. And carried some rocks over for the windbreak :)

It was a day! I have a little sewing to do, and maybe try to clear a space on top of the beading/repair desk but that's about it.

March and April Update

Update.... more like a summary.

Birthday was nice - made it to the hot tubs. Thank goodness, because who knows when that will happen again, right?

Helped out in Feb. and March at the new kung fu school, painting, etc. Of course they can't have students in it, but I realized today that the lease is almost up on the old place so soon they'll be doing online classes from the new place. I have curtains to make for covering the door to the cooler (building used to be a warehouse/processing place). Participated in one online class, was discouraged by how hard it is to get back into doing it. They put up videos of some of the forms though, so I need to look at those -- might even be able to do that now...

And then of course the pandemic... I'd been trying to stock up on some things all winter but cash flow was a little tight. So I didn't really start until February and then when we saw CV-19 happening I managed to accelerate on buying some stuff. Still waiting for something I ordered well over a month ago but at least it isn't urgent.

Ah. That reminds me, I should order more CBD oil from Bluebird Botanicals - there's a sale this month. Also need to order Lion's Mane from Host Defense.

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My right hip was so bad for a bit that my knee was messed up and I had to go down stairs with the leg straight. Found some exercises online... pandicular something or other? I'll have to go look it up later because they helped and now I want to add to the collection for the rest of the body issues. I'm just about back to where I was before and I'd like to get better

I think trying a little bit of BBC brew exacerbated things. I knew BBC made their brew well enough that I wouldn't have an allergic reaction to it or even get heartburn, and no stomach issues either. But one other affect I can get from wheat/gluten is severe inflammation of the muscles. Nothing's worth that, thanks.

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We're putting in a fence between us and our uphill neighbors finally, after all these years. Too bad we didn't do it last year, when everyone wasn't especially stressed out by the pandemic. That was "fun". No, I don't want to go into it. We hashed out where to put up the tallest part and that's up. The rest will be garden fencing for now.

The neighbors are having their own issues. With the help of a friend in another town, I learned more about childcare and domestic abuse organizations, as part of that.... thankfully it was a first-time occurrence and the husband voluntarily got into counseling. Wife has my phone number.

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Pea and carrot seeds planted.

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Masks made for us, housemates, relative who's doing shopping for her family and sometimes other family members, town workers and emergency folks, pantry, school, etc. No, not just me -- thank goodness because I'm not that fast, and I have other things to do.

Can't really take being too deeply involved, anyway. Leads to crankiness and breakdowns, so no thanks. Sleep is mostly back to "normal". In other words, still as crappy as it has been for a few years now, but better than 0 - 3 hrs, which was a good few weeks in March.

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Self-care is hard when the world's on fire and you want to rush out and do something about it. But if you don't take care of yourself, you'll be in no condition to help.

Self-care is NOT SELFISH. You cannot put out the neighbor's fire if you're on fire.