Walking Across Sam's.

 Walking Across Sam’s.

 

Got my exercise today. Parked out in the front lot at Sam’s and walked all the way to the pharmacy to get Thompson’s meds. Yes, much cheaper than at the vet’s office. But oh boy! Walking on concrete! It felt like a half mile just to get to the pharmacy, but maybe that is just my imagination. Later walked down to Patty’s to take her a happy surprise from Michelle Malay. Michelle got both of us some to-do and don’t-forget list things, some post-it notes, a calendar, an ear warmer, and some alpaca socks for running around inside the house. Patty was very surprised but happy since she has never even met Michelle, but we share talks about dogs and such all the time. Michelle’s dog Henry tends to interrupt every conversation. Patty’s two puppers crawled all over me today while we were sitting at her table in the living room. That meant that my two dogs had to sniff me up one side and down the other. See, that is what happens when Michelle comes to visit. My dogs sniff her dogs’ smell and then send their message home to her dogs!! It really is a dog smell dog world!

 

Just took the turkey out of the oven. Will mess with it tomorrow and make dog food out of most of it. Some of the rest will be put into bags for meals later. It is pretty much a job to pick that thing up and out of the fridge, out of the oven, or just onto another surface. This one is not as heavy as the ones Lance picked up at Aldi’s for me. Dread handling one of those 20 pounders!

 

Had to laugh at my daughter today. She bought something like a travel bag for both of her boys. Then she put them somewhere. Now she finally remembered them and can’t remember where she stuck those bags! And she is not even 50 yet!! And we are hoping that the old woman won’t lose anything more important than a few words from her vocabulary. Could not remember the word hypochondriac the other night. Things like that really bug me. But the memory loss that really bothers me is not being able to remember who gave me which calendar! The Back Forty is on the office wall; the glamour hens are in the back bathroom; the H&O calendar is on the living room wall, and now my desk in the living room has another calendar to fill in for each month with appointments. Kinda hoping there will not be any more appointments next month. Blank space is nice.

 

Michelle knows me rather well. She brought a Max Lucado devotional book and the James Herriot books All Creatures Great and Small & All Things Bright and Beautiful. Between her books and the ones that Sterling brought when he was here, the old woman could get addicted to just sitting and reading. Not that it would take much to get me addicted.

 

A conversation with Michelle about having her knees replaced and the discussion with the pharmacist at Sam’s reminds me that we should be praying about the frailties of the body—both in humans and in the bodies of our critters. We don’t plan on having arthritis or any of the other problems that seem to crop up, but one day we just wake up and it hurts to move. Let us remember those who hurt from accidents, RA, and all the other initialed diseases that beset us. Right now, the doctors are finally confirming that the three years (or thereabouts) of covid-imposed restrictions from social settings have caused as much death from depression and social anxiety as the diseases that caused us to allow ourselves to be quarantined from each other. Children have failed to learn the social skills that we all need. And young people have become more backward because they are either paranoid or simply unable to relate to others. May God grant us hearts of concern for others.

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.