Ever since Covid started and we became sequestered in our homes, I’ve become far more sensitive to stimuli. Excess noises, bustling activity, too many things happening at once and I need a little quiet time to regroup. This didn’t bother me in my earlier working years. I mainly worked in hospitals and medical offices. At one point I had my needlework shop and that was busy. I was the “downtown shop girl” in Glenwood Springs. I worked one day a week in three different shops so my mind had to be nimble.

I’m not saying I’ve become “too old to cut the mustard” but time and solitude has changed my ability to tolerate chaos with any regularity. Mr. FixIt and I left the house yesterday morning at a little after 8:00. It was storming…the wind was blowing, thunder was crashing all around, and the rain was coming down in sheets. I drove carefully over to the doctor’s office in Belpre and we found our seats in a crowded waiting room.

The TV on the wall to my left was just loud enough that I could hear, but not loud enough to make out the words. There was music coming from the speakers in the ceiling. A little toddler was sitting with his dad babbling his sweet baby language and watching a cartoon on a phone. The man on the other side of Mr. FixIt was watching a video documentary about Taylor Swift on HIS phone. I sat with my book open on my lap willing myself to block out the cacophony around me. 

It was almost an hour before they called us into the office, and another fifteen minutes before the PA came in. I had an appointment at 11:00 and I kept glancing at the clock, hoping I wouldn’t have to cancel my appointment at the last minute. Fortunately, we got out of there in plenty of time. When we pulled out of the parking lot, there was a car on fire in the entry to the Emergency Room. Now…THAT person was having a bad day!

I dropped Mr. FixIt off at the mall to walk some laps and went to my appointment nearby. I never have to wait long, but this time it was twenty-five minutes before I was called back. I’m sure you all know, but Medicare provides us a free annual physical. My PCP is very thorough and I wasn’t out of there till 12:30. I am happy to say I’m in excellent health! She was very please with my progress.

By the time I picked up my sweetie at the mall, we were both beyond hungry so we went to our favorite diner for lunch. Afterward, we stopped at Mrs. FixIt 1.0’s house and visited with her and my WV daughter who had one of our little great grandsons with her so that was delightful! He is such a sweet little guy!

Yesterday was Big’s 20th Birthday!!! We got to visit via video chat. Swim season is over and she is enjoying a little down time…if you can call carrying all those college classes “down time.” I can’t believe she is twenty years old!!! It wasn’t that long ago she was this little sweet pea that went to the book store and shopping for shoes with me. Her very first sentence was “Shopping for shoes!” What an amazing young woman she is.

We stopped for a couple of things at the grocery store and headed home and I was never so glad to snuggle into my Big Red Chair and pick up my knitting. I had a nice little break from the keyboard the last couple of days and I’m fresh and ready to get back in the game. I still want to get over to the farm for a few days pretty soon, but we have some things to take care of around here first.

It’s Leap Day!!!

If you were born on February 29th…then, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! You’re a lot younger than your contemporaries! Oh, and by the way…there are daffodils blooming in Parkersburg! It was 69° yesterday morning when I woke up…and, it was 42° by the time we got home. There’s an awful lot of wicked weather out there…fires, tornadoes, snow, rain, flooding. It’s crazy…be careful out there!

I hope you all are doing well. Please say an extra pray for one of my dearest friends. They had a death in the family, then at the dinner after, her nephew had a stroke. What a horrifying sequence of events! Please keep him and his family in your prayers.

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”And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.“

James 5:15-16

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