Tuesday, October 09, 2012

First Fire of the Season


7 am
                So funny thing: K drove L to the airport this morning. I got up just before they left to say goodbye, then I went back to bed. I probably dozed a bit, but I kept kind of thinking I really “should” get up, which I finally did, thinking that it was getting really late and I was being a lazy bum because they left at 7:15 so it must be 8 or 8:30. Well actually they left at 6:15 so I was not a lazy bum at all. Well, it is just as well to be up since there is a lot to do. I was half inclined to sit in bed to write and meditate, but that also felt lazy. Only now I am cold. The other thing I should do is start a fire. Wouldn’t that be lovely? But I won’t be home very long. Well, I’ll be home longer today
than most other days. Tomorrow I have lecture early then I must go visit the sister in CT. Thursday I don’t necessarily have to get in really early, but I meet with the prof at 10 and that is one of the few days I can get to the gym before work. Then Friday is lecture at 10. So you know what??? I think I WILL light a fire. Wooo hooo.
                HA! Did it. It was not especially hard, though I am not so sure it has really caught well, I may have to fiddle a bit. Still, it is very cheery, which I need after the hard weekend. Yesterday turned out ok, after a very rocky start. We went to breakfast, to Kelly’s and it was very nice, we were all on good behavior. The rest of the day I kind of dicked around. I did, as usual, a bunch of food stuff – made more rabbit jerky, this time for me to keep, I actually finally made the salsa verde that I had started (I didn’t do that til quite late in the day), I washed a lot of dishes as usual and did a lot of tidying. Not that anything looks any better than the usual disaster…I managed to grade the Monday proposals, and I even mowed the back yard. Then late in the day L and I went to the college so she could get a book – Sibley’s bird guide to Western US -  and I picked up all the blood glucose meters so I can look ever what we have and what we need for the independents. I sure wish the students would get back to me about changes to their proposals. After that we stopped at the farm to get our share and came home and I made velvetted rabbit and stir fry veggies. It was pretty good. I have a mild disaster in that the freezer, that was already full, got more full from the bag of blueberries that L brought from Maine. They are lovely, but the bag is big, and I need to get something else out of the freezer so I can get the ice cube trays back in. I was thinking that I could give away some of the blueberries. I could also try drying some. Of course the cookiecooling sheets I use for racks in the oven are too coarse, it would be better to have finer mesh. But maybe I can just dry them straight on the cookie sheets and just turn them a lot. And I should make some jam, that would be great. More projects. Oh, the other thing I did yesterday was to cut up my soap. It is quite soft in the interior part, so I cut it up (it cut easily) and set the pieces out to dry more.
                *NOTE: K just called to say he left his briefcase, and he wants me to bring it to him, well, not the whole way to work, but to meet him at the Bridge. So I need to be there at 8:50, about an hour from now. I’ll need to leave here around 8:30. I should find out when Target etc open because one of my big tasks for the day is to buy those storage bins to bring to work so I can start to organize the blood and urinalysis stuff better.
                Other tasks for the day – lots of errands: PO, bank, library. Oh, I also need to decide what to buy in terms of these glucose meters and then either get them somewhere like Walmart, or go to the medical supply place in Holyoke today while I have the car.
                Well I guess I had better get a move on. I must eat bfast, feed the buns, meditate, and figure out these meters. Except I might have to wait on the meters, bring them back to work and figure them out there and pick them up after. 

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