April 30, 2017
It’s a sunny Sunday here in the NW … an oddity by all accounts. From inside my cozy home it looks balmy, breezy, inviting … and yet it’s about 48 degrees and is anything but. So, I sit here pretending that the breeze that sways my flowers awaiting planting is warm and not biting. The flowers can wait another day or week for their new homes; the planter boxes will just have to stay naked. I’ve lost my midwest edge when it comes to being cold. By the time this is posted, it’ll be the merry-merry month of May and probably, once again, gray and blustery and just so unspring-like! But I’ll be one more day closer to summer … which, as I recall, begins here sometime mid-August.
Old doggy … in 3 weeks I turn another decade. I’m feeling old doggy. This is a big one and ten years ago it seemed light years away. Well, time travel is speedy and here we are … looking down my non-bifocaled nose at another decade of being a seasoned AARPer. Where does the time go?
And, unfortunately, this is one old dog that some new tricks cannot be taught. I got a fitbit a week ago. It took me a week and a bit of a fit to figure out how to work the darn thing. Silly me! I thought it was battery operated and not synched into my computer and making calculations that flew off to Mars before coming back to me in the form of graphs and pie charts and more calculations than on my SAT test so many moons ago. I just want to count my steps! So, after much grumbling, I returned it. Old doggy. I got a pedometer. All is good. I’ve gone a whopping 2317 steps today. I’ll be lucky to crack 3000. Time to get moving if I want to reach 10,000!
I have two old doggies … and my “new” old doggy did something new this week … Clara decided to engage with me – for the first time since her arrival 3 months ago and bring me a toy to play with! Not just for me to play with, but for me to throw and for her to – amazingly enough as her name suggests – retrieve! So, we played with baby Lambchop for a few tosses until that was enough for the old gal. But, it was something and a step in the right direction. Maybe she didn’t learn a new trick … maybe she’s just finally feeling at home and comfortable enough to show me what she already knows. Good dog, Clara!
I babysit during the week and caught whatever creeping crud the little one had oozing out of her. So nice to share! So, feeling a bit under the weather, I decided to make a green drink and load myself up with some slaw and lettuce, berries and oj, flax seed and whatever else looked on the verge of spoilage … plus a couple slices of frozen banana. If I knew what was in here I could make a fortune in town with a smoothie truck! I don’t know if it’s helping my cold any, but it sure is tasty.
I’ve been working on my Woof on Whidbey website for the past few days … a slow go. But, it’s coming together and I’m very proud of my success. For being non-technical I’m learning a lot. Could I tell you what I did or how I did it? Probably not. But I’m making progress and haven’t blown up my lap top – yet! So, in my world, that’s not so old doggy!
It’s been a week of guests and dog and guests with dogs and jerky guests and jerky dogs, babysitting and business … and so it goes. One of these days I’ll let you in on the books I’m writing … once I start writing them! Again, with the time!
I’m now at Day 120: From Hair to There … and yes, it’s growing out but ever so slowly. Maybe I need more green smoothies! I’ve got a silver halo going on – others like it; I don’t. I’m itching to color my hair … but how do you color something that is an inch long? But, I might still do it! I need more color. I feel washed out. I see the difference in the photos from month to month but it’s still so short that I am still surprised when I look in the mirror! One would think, by now, that I’d be used to this short-do … but apparently NOT! It’s still a shock! The Curly look is hanging on far too long – my face just looks huge and round! A friend told me she thinks we reach a certain “look” and that is what we always expect to see in the mirror and we’re surprised when those images don’t quite match. Well, if that’s the case … I’ve been surprised since I was 23!
Old doggies … my neighbors are collectively over 195 years old (88 yrs each or thereabouts) and they have subscribed to Hello Fresh – one of those boxed dinner companies. They are having a ball with it – learning new cooking techniques, experimenting with new foods and flavors they otherwise would not venture to try, and having a great culinary experience over all. Not so old doggies! Good for them!
Gert, is my old lady pug … and my other old doggy. She’s been having more and more seizures in the past weeks … each and all very upsetting (to us both). Meds don’t seem to help much – so, we are playing with dosages – but with an up’d dose I have a bug eyed eating machine that falls asleep in the middle of the hallway and stays there for the next 6 hours until the need for food wakes her up again! So, we are trying to figure things out. More old doggy stuff.
And that’s it for me today. If you’re feeling old doggy – go try something new … even if it’s a green smoothie.