I have so much to write about today it just makes me dizzy not knowing where to start. O.K. Here it comes. First I lost my keys – the keys to my upstairs apartment. I was in the apartment when it happened. I ransacked the place looking for them. They had to be in that apartment somewhere. I enlisted the help of a friend. She looked everywhere several times over. We were on the brink of giving up when……….da da she asked “have you checked your pockets” for the umpteenth time. Duh…..I checked my back pocket – click – my keys were FOUND. There they were in my back pocket. We had a good laugh and a big hug! Did I ever feel foolish – particularly as I had had a similar experience in Fred Meyer several years ago. Oh well.

It’s a new day and somehow I am connected to the internet. Hooray. It is not raining – that is a nice change. There are humming birds at the bush right outside my window. And a friend just delivered a cup of coffee to my “office”.

After a few frustrating days of being offline for some incomprehensible reason(s), I seem to be online again. Not being able to publish a blog post ruins my day. Anyhow here I am back again.

Guess what came in the mail today. A book by our very own fellow blogger T. W. Dittmer. The Vally Walker. I am ready to dive right in.

We have now ALMOST completely moved from Floor 3 down to Floor 1.. Two of our 3 sons did the bulk of the work but I am the one who is exhausted. Supervision and decision making. And then to top it off we got 2 shots – flu in one arm and the COVID booster in the other. I had a reaction and was feeling rather low for most of the next day.

Moving up, moving down – it is all happening here at our Assisted Living “arrangement”. What a weekend!! Lots of hard work – and very successful. I hardly lifted a finger but I am exhausted. How could we have accumulated so much stuff in so short a time. Blame it on my postcard collecting addiction, the fascination of exploring my genealogy, TThethe fact that I like to knit, etc. etc.

Oh dear, we are in the thick of it now. And I have been putting off all those dreadful decisions of Down Sizing, but crunch time is nearing. Even though we left our house and moved to Assisted Living almost two years ago, the Big Decisions re what goes to the dump and what gets distributed in some other way still have to be made – And much more in preparation to selling the house. So farI have Benn inching along in these processes. COVID has put everything out of whack but thankfully none of our nearest and dearest have been sick and we feel most fortunate.. Knock on wood.