April 27, 2007

• Alive and… oh well…

  Yesterday was an extraordinarily busy day — a visit to the doctor, a little shopping, then packing some of the Dumpster Deva’s bounty in the car and strapping the rest of it onto the roof rack for the drive home.  In healthier times, I would have considered it a leisurely afternoon’s activity.  Many of my readers often accomplish this much on their way home from work, but I did it, got it done, made it home and I am ambulatory today.  That is success, I say.

  Reading in bed last night, I was swarmed by mosquitoes.  They have hatched before all the snow is gone, which is unusual.  The muskeg is still frozen, so these things had to have hatched in a mud puddle or here in the house.  They could be a species I haven’t seen before:  medium to large and not the soft-bodied and slow “bombers” that usually come out first.  They have some speed, and their little bodies are not squishy-soft like the bomber skeeters.  I don’t know which is more bothersome while I’m trying to relax in bed with a book:  the skeeters or the cats chasing the skeeters.

  BoureeMusique left a comment on yesterday’s entry that meshes with one of the items on my to-blog list, and I intend to blog about it soon.  This morning I woke with something else on my mind.  I had Doug add it to the new list, in case I forgot before I’d had my breakfast and got to the computer.  He had to turn the paper over and start on the back.  The only way I’ll get to the end of that list is to stop having new ideas or start covering multiple topics each day.  Oh, well… it helps to have a purpose to my days, something to motivate me to get out of bed.

  Later….

  • 2:35 pm
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