7:30 am
Yesterday was busy, but I’m not sure it was all that productive. I guess I say that because I didn’t manage to do anything substantial on the garden beds. We drove to the mill and got the wire. That is good. We went on to take Mom to lunch which was a good thing to do. We came back and I actually did call the Financial Advisor which was stressful enough that after I had to lie down! And after that, well what did I do? I guess I managed to do a little spinning, then I got supper together. After supper L and I went out to do a few errands – I got the screws I need for the garden beds, so at least I did that much, and then we stopped at Starbucks. I wanted to use the gift certificate that a student had given me. We had a reasonably nice visit, although I actually do not like their tea very much. And I had a scone which I certainly didn’t need and it was not that great either. I only ate part of it, so that is good. We mostly looked at the map books, of Maine and Massachusetts that she had bought at Adventure Outfitters. We both find maps utterly fascinating and can stare at them for ages. I had brought the LSSE class application to work on, but I didn’t do any of it. I must decide if I want to try teaching through them. I found out that I actually can still teach a class in JTerm and that I would get paid $150 so I think I will do that. If I taught through LSSE it would mean it would be during the semester, and I would presumably have to haul everything back and forth which would be a royal pain. Another thought I had would be to teach a knitting class instead. It would be a lot easier, but I’ve never taught knitting, not sure how that would go.
I think today I will focus on that bed. And then moving more compost around. G will join the farm crew for lunch, then pick up our share, then go to her oral surgery follow-up appointment. Then she is doing something for supper. Maybe the farm thing is for supper. Tomorrow K and L are going canoeing for the morning. I hope it works out well, K seems very invested in it. Sunday is bookclub. I kind of wish it were earlier, so we could have supper together, though that usually doesn’t work out very well anyway. G will be at supper and overnight at a friend’s on Saturday. Or maybe not supper, just overnight, so maybe we could go out somewhere then. They both like Paul and Elizabeth’s, maybe that would work.
I had an interesting revelation, or maybe I should say that I learned something interesting from Mom yesterday. G was telling us about some creepy dream she had. I asked Mom if she dreamed much (wondering how it passed through the family, since mine are so vivid and I know Dad had vivid dreams that he remembered) and she said no, that she used to, but she had scared them away. And she said it so plaintively, like a little kid. I guess she had had bad, scary dreams as a child, but had “scared them away” so they would stop. I wonder where she got the idea. Did Grandma suggest it to her, or someone else? It was kind of heart wrenching to think of this very scared little girl having these terrible dreams. I think she was very sensitive as a young kid. And it has lingered. She did not seem very happy during our lunch. I think her stomach was hurting. I wonder if, like me, her stomach just hurts a lot of the time.
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