I Feel A Little Weary

 

This is pretty much the entire extent of what I accomplished today. 

That extremely messy surface is where I keep some gardening stuff and where Mr. Moon keeps his bird-feeding supplies and where I have my baby plant nursery and a few other random plants that I just haven't put anywhere else. I scrounged pots for my Roseland sea grapes and fish tail palms, filled them with seed starter which is what I had as to potting soil, watered them well, and now I just have to keep an eye on them and water them when they need it. I so hope that they grow. 

I just haven't had any energy today. I think I may have done too much the last few days what with packing and traveling and unpacking and doing laundry and hauling a few branches and all the things that I wasn't doing when I convalescing in Roseland. Also, my attitude today has been less than positive. As I told Mr. Moon this morning, I think that I have kept pretty good spirits through all this Covid and hurricane business but today was not the day for that. 
And I did not do shit. 

I caught up on blogs and worked on my jigsaw puzzle. 

Up until yesterday I had not touched that thing in a month except to move it into the library when Lon and Lis came. I am really very, very bad at jigsaw puzzles. My eyes don't see like that, my brain doesn't work like that. It's sort of like my inability to really see faces. I'm sure there's a connection but I enjoy working on them, nonetheless and it doesn't matter in the least how long it takes me to complete one and this one pleases me with the different patterns and colors and faces. I can sit listening to a podcast or an audio book for hours, slowly going through pieces, looking for what I need to finish one little part. 

Lloyd still does not have power. Here's the text message we got from Duke Energy today. 

Duke Energy: The estimated time for power to be on is currently 11:59PM on Aug 07 for 8945 OLD**. Approx 650 customers impacted. We will provide the cause of the outage once it is confirmed. Text STOP to prevent receiving all future outage notifications.

They'll provide the cause of the outage once it is confirmed? Does this mean they still don't know? Good Lord. Of course we have the generator but as I've said so many times I feel so guilty with our lights and AC (especially AC) and fans and refrigerators keeping our food cold and internet and TV, while everyone else in the neighborhood is sweating like crazy and having to deal with the darkness and food that's going bad and many of them have no water because they're on well water which requires an electric pump to get it out of the ground and into the house. We're on the municipal water system and never have to worry about that anyway. 
The only fly in this ointment besides my guilt is the fact that the generator runs on the gas in the tank that fuels our stove and the heater in the winter and we are down to about 16% right now which is too close to zero for my comfort. We've called the company to get a truck out here and please let that happen before we run out. 

First world problems, baby. First world problems. 

So what do we think about Tim Walz? Until today, I honestly had no idea who he was but after reading about him, I'm thinking that Kamala made a fine choice. He just seems like a good and thoughtful man who cares about people. Hank texted everyone today and said, "Is anyone else feeling cautiously optimistic about the presidential race?" And we all said we do. He supports free university for low-income kids, free lunches for school children, recreational marijuana and trans rights so yes, he sounds like my guy. Of course, as Hank pointed out, there is a lot more to him that that. 

Meanwhile, Trump seems to be unable to form a coherent sentence and I guess he thinks he's being quite clever by calling Kamala, Kambala, which I suppose is a racist thing and at this point, his quiver of ammunition seems pretty low on arrows. Oh wait. Walz failed a roadside sobriety test 28 years ago so maybe he's not fit to be the vice president. 
Excuse me? Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and he IS fit to be president? 

Enough. Y'all have already heard from me once today. 

Here's the birthday picture that I finally got in the mail today from Levon. 

He really HAS grown this summer! 

I cannot believe we can't even see our grandchildren now. How long before you're not contagious from Covid? The internet seems to have many different opinions about this. Glen was going to go to the gym today until he remembered he has Covid. 

Anyway...

Love...Ms. Moon