Week 19 - Better Each Day

For the second week in a row, Monday was not a banner day but, yet again, it got better from there.

The day was fine but when I was waiting for Nan to pick me up for knitting, she called to say she'd gotten into an accident coming off the highway into my neighborhood. Some men were working on the ditch and had taken down the stop sign. Not being familiar with the roads, Nan sailed through and was hit, completely trashing the rear passenger side of her car. I felt bad and somewhat responsible since she was coming to get me. : (

I'd also mentioned something I'd seen on Facebook with my cousin, thinking she'd have seen it already. I didn't know she was no longer going onto Facebook and she was not happy with what I shared. I felt bad for that too but we talked on her way to work and I hope that helped some.

The last thing was that I woke up in the wee hours (so technically Tuesday) by my cat playing with something. I turned the light on and saw that it was a little mouse, brought in a few days ago through the cat door, and it looked dead. I picked it up by the tail and threw it in the toilet to flush it away only to have it hit the water and start paddling. With one side of its body anyway. I had not choice but to flush the poor thing. I was ready for a new day!

After getting what I suspected was a high bid from an AC guy who was recommended, I called the local HVAC company who had installed my furnace and they came Tuesday morning. Yup. Their quote was $1.5k less than the first quote. That was the beginning of better times.

I had a perfectly lovely work week with just the right amount of busy, teaching 2 training sessions and ending with Foundation reports on Friday. I also had lunch with Helen at the Mexican restaurant on Friday. It was a good work week and now for the weekend!

Saturday was the monthly sale at the Estate Dispersal Store so Andrea and I were heading north. We had fun doing our usual Fremont run where I found some new with tags clothes while thrifting and ended at Aldi. When I got home, I pulled out some yarn and a shawl pattern I'd bought years ago and started knitting. After doing mostly socks for years, it was tough going and I ripped it out 6 times before I was satisfied with how it looked. I stayed up late until I thought I had it right but it wasn't so I ripped it out twice on Sunday morning. Sheesh! But it's going to be pretty and I love it. It's got black and a rainbow fade so the color of the wedges with change as I knit. How fun is that!

After spending Sunday morning watching TV and knitting, ripping out and reknitting, it was time to get busy. With the last of the really cold weather gone, it was time to move the many overwintered plants outside. This is always a joy because while I love having geraniums in bloom in the dead of winter, by early spring I'm ready for them to go out. I put most of them on the deck and took down the plant table in the front room. My baker's rack in front of my slider in the back room is still up and has my seedlings on it, some of which I potted up into 6 packs Sunday night. I'm late with that but that's OK.

So a nice week and pretty fun weekend redeemed the grim start to the week. Tuesday was 4 weeks from when I fell so just 2 more weeks to go with the brace. I can make it!