Sunday, September 18, 2022

Slow Dancing Sunday


Here we have a crappy picture of a nice little anole. That is the only picture I've taken today. I have not felt well. I don't know what's going on. I have no fever, no real congestion, but I'm tired and a little achey. My eyeballs feel weird. I took a Covid test but it came up negative so I guess it's not that. If I don't feel better tomorrow, I'll take another. 
So I have not done much. I made breakfast, I swept the hallway, I made the bed. I sat on the couch and knit and watched Call the Midwife. I love how the show's seasons have flowed with the times they were set in, from just post-war to the sixties. If the show had only been about babies being born, I still would have eagerly watched it, but it has covered so many topics from racial issues to abortion to poverty to grief, to prostitution, to joy, to adoption, to domestic abuse, to drug use, to incest, to Downs Syndrome, to aging, to so much more. 

The Weatherfords came over to collect a dishwasher we had in our garage and for Mr. Moon and Vergil to practice with the crossbow, again in preparation for deer season, and although I wasn't going to be around the boys, that didn't quite work out. And what the hell- I was with them for hours yesterday. They wanted me to read them a book and I can never turn that down. It was good to see Jessie. She was at work yesterday. She and August actually walked down to the Dollar General to get mocha drinks and juice boxes. She also bought a cucumber and some other produce that I have already forgotten. Last weekend when Vergil brought the boys out, August was running a fever and I had no children's tylenol or ibuprofen and he ran down to the DG and got some. I suppose I am just going to have to admit that at times the place is going to be a huge convenience. Not necessarily for mocha drinks and juice boxes but for things like OTC meds that would normally involve at least a twenty minute drive both ways. 
Of course I wish that it was not a giant corporate-owned store with sleazy hiring practices and an obvious complete disregard for the environment but there's absolutely no way that a locally-owned establishment could ever offer the sort of selection and prices that they do. 
I am in no way defending the place but here it is and here it is probably going to stay. 

I've very much enjoyed being restful today. I refilled the hummingbird feeder and I've loved watching the tiny things darting and sipping around it. Right now there's a pileated woodpecker in the Bradford pear right beside the porch. I wish I could get a picture but I know I would scare it off if I tried. They are so large and so beautiful. The pecan trees are already dropping their leaves. They are the last to come in and the first to fall. I wonder how they're going to feel about this coming week's heat wave. They are probably as confused as the rest of us are. One minute with tolerable, if not exactly cool temperatures, the next it's going to be in the upper nineties again. 
As if it's not tough enough living in Florida where Ron DeSantis is governor and where Donald Trump lives. DT has to be the Ultimate Florida Man. He doesn't even need meth to qualify him for that honor. But for the moment, at least, he's not making laws and sending immigrants on plane trips to Martha's Vineyard. 
So, so clever, that DeSantis is. How cute. 
How fucking cruel. 

The last I heard from Lily, she was thinking that she has a mild case but that was this morning. I haven't heard from her this evening. She has been sleeping a lot. That I know. 
Lauren posted on FB that she wished the Waffle House would deliver so I guess she's feeling better. 

I think I will go to bed early tonight. I am reading an Alexandra Fuller book and as with all of her books, I am enjoying it from toes to nose and and all points beyond. 
Pack Light, Move Fast. 
What a woman. What a life. What a writer. 

Love...Ms. Moon

24 comments:

  1. I am sorry you are under the weather. It even comes across in your writing. You pour your soul into your words and your feelings show through as well.
    A quiet pottery day sounds just the ticket.
    Birds should realise how photogenic they are and learn to just keep still for a wee while so we can capture their beauty and awesomeness.

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    1. I completely agree with you about birds! Pose, dammit! And thank you for those kind words.

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  2. I so hope you feel better tomorrow morning after a hopeful restful nights sleep. Please let it be so.
    Susan M

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  3. feel better quick lily! we had our first little surge in my grade- so far so good but we are also not mandatory testing anymore either. xxalainaxx

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    1. She is doing much better. Her case was a mild one. You be careful, teacher lady!

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  4. I have read every Alexandra Fuller book. Yes, what a life. So much sadness and hardship.

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  5. Last week August had a fever, today you are tired and achy. It's possible the two are related and whatever it is I hope you are better soon. The anole is a lovely picture. Crossbows? Sounds dangerous.

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    1. August's fever seemed to be from a sinus infection he'd developed after a little sniffly thing we all had. So- probably not. But who knows?
      I love our anoles. I have taken many pictures of them that are far better.
      Don't even get me started about crossbows.

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  6. While I haven't watched all of it, I very much enjoyed Call the Midwife too, being a youngster in the 60s growing up in an area very much like they portray. It's very true to life as far as I'm concerned. And I hope you feel better soon. Sometimes all you need is "a day off" and rest isn't it!

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    1. Another thing I love about Call the Midwife is that it just keeps going. It's like a lifeline for me when I need it.

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  7. I love Call the Midwife, a most enjoyable series that covers so much " life"!
    My daughter in law has just told me she has covid and feeling very poorly. It has not gone away! Hope that you feel better soon.

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    1. I hope your daughter-in-law feels better daily, Frances.

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  8. I'm so sorry Lily is sick. I sincerely hope the worst of it is over for her and she feels much better today.
    I refilled our hummingbird feeder yesterday, too. Great minds and all that, right? :)
    Have a good day, Mary!

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    1. She is okay, Jennifer! She is a strong girl. And thank you.
      We have to keep our hummingbird feeders filled with clean nectar, don't we? They depend on us.

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  9. My friend has Covid now also and I had lunch with her on Friday so I am waiting to see if I get it. At least most people seem to get a milder case these days. Hope Lily is feeling better already...

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    1. Well, damn. Keep us informed. I hope you don't get it.

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  10. Thanks for the recommendation re. the Alexandra Fuller book. I loved "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight," but I haven't read anything else by her. I should.

    The thing that galls me about the DG is that, as I recall from my last visit to Lloyd, there's a vacant store standing at the corner of the two main roads. Why didn't the DG demolish that and build there? Why did they have to flatten a pristine swamp?

    I hope you feel better and whatever this is turns out to be transient.

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    1. Yes. You should definitely read more of Alexandra Fuller's books.
      Well, the deal with this DG was that the property where the vacant store sat was not for sale. I think someone recently bought it. Possibly. BUT, that little swamp lot was sold by a guy who's been trying to get rid of it forever and he finally found someone who would take it. I'm pretty sure this is the modus operandi for them. Find a little piece of ground that no one else wants and get it for cheap.

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  11. I felt OK Sunday but had a lazy day reading. I fixed a frittata for breakfast which had me going to the store for one of the items I needed. I followed the recipe (well, I halved it, there's only two of us) and didn't use as much salt as it called for though even then I thought it was a lot and it was. That dish was so salty! After refusing to shop at the evil empire for all these years I finally succumbed and go now and then because it's so convenient. Otherwise it's a 20 minute drive to one town or a 30 minute drive to another and then the same amount of time coming home.

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    1. I thought about spending the day reading but I knew if I laid down to do it, I'd fall asleep and I just didn't want to for fear of not being able to sleep last night.
      I hate it when recipes are too salty. It just ruins the dish.
      I guess we can rationalize shopping occasionally at these evil businesses by how much gas we're saving when we go there. And let's face it- neither Walmart nor Dollar General are going to go out of business because we don't shop there.

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  12. Well here's a howdoyedo. This post just arrived in my feed z Tuesday morning. I thought you hadn't posted and wondered if you were okay. Blogger shenabugaabs thats what predictive text said. I said shenanigans.

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  13. I love to knit, and watch Call the Midwife,, too! Are we kin? (I live in Virginia, so guess not.) Hope you are feeling better.

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