Let Us Celebrate The Small Things While We Can

This is the bloom of a leopard plant that I have growing in the little garden beside the kitchen. I tend to just stick plants in there that I don't know what to do with and that is one of them. I do love the leaves on the plant but the bloom is rather straggly and scraggly, or at least mine is. I need to do something about that area as it is looking tired and unkempt. I'll add that to the list. 

I went to town today AGAIN and not only went to Costco and Publix but also to Walmart which I usually avoid like the plague it is but it's so close to Costco and I needed a few things that neither they nor Publix have. Five pound weights, for one. I have got to start some sort of strength training. We all know that weight-bearing exercise is what maintains bone strength and I sure don't want my own personal bones crumbling like little sticks of chalk. So I got the weights and I got some canned air because we needed that and I got some artichokes and sweet potatoes and I also saw two dresses, one made of flannel and one made of corduroy and I just threw them in the cart without even trying them on because I'm stupid like that. I just went and dug the receipt out of the trash in case I have to take them back. I just need something slightly warmer than the dresses I've been wearing all summer. Supposedly it is going to get cooler starting the rest of the week. I'll believe it when I see it.

Lauren is feeling a little better in that she is able to get comfortable in some positions. I had to go by their house because I left my favorite and constant Yeti water mug there yesterday and nothing else suits me like that one does. I forget everything these days. Remember that old saying, "I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached"? 
If I forgot my head and it wasn't attached, it would make no difference at all because there's nothing in it except for a few random factoids rattling around that have nothing to do with anything. 

Mr. Moon may or may not be feeling better. The reason I don't know is because he's out in the garage, working on Tom's Gator UTV, which is a small utility vehicle that Tom uses to get from one place on his property to another. It is what makes it possible for him to be as independent as he is. So today when it quit running, he was very upset and called Glen to ask him to do what he could to fix it and that's why Glen is in the garage right now. Tom has not maintained the little UTV at all, and mainly because he just can't, so it's no wonder that it finally quit running. 
Glen took a covid test this morning and it was negative. So that's not his problem. I think stress could be at the heart of this unwellness. There was the wedding and there are some situations going on at Moon Plaza that need resolving which will take a lot of work on his part and he keeps getting calls from a guy who hunts the same property he does who needs help with whatever it is that hunters need help with. Glen hates to let anyone down. It's just not in his DNA to do that. And honestly, the election hit him hard too. 
Hell, we're all going through it right now, aren't we? It may just be, however, that his switch has gotten flipped to Overwhelm which is completely understandable. 

I've got another thing to add to my list of things I need to do. Lauren and Jessie and I were talking yesterday about how Pubix hadn't gotten in its candied fruit to make fruitcake with but when I was there today, lo and behold- the fruit has arrived.

Since it's on sale, I should have bought what I need but I didn't. I ran across the cheesecloth though, when I was looking for something else, and I bought some of that. I always need far more cheesecloth than I think I will to soak in rum and wrap the cakes in. 

I'm trying so very hard not to allow myself to drown in the dark, dense grayness of my fears. I don't think I'm in denial at all. In fact, I think that my predictions are so unbelievably terrifying that if I begin delineating and defining them one by one, I might lose my mind. It helps to be as normal as possible while I can be, doing the shopping, planning the fruitcakes, making the meals, working in the garden, being with my family. With each and every announcement that comes from The Vile Orange One's camp though, it becomes harder and harder to maintain this distance. Still, it would do no one any good if I allowed myself to fall into the darkness completely. 

We are all dealing with this in our own ways. Let's keep the light on for each other as long as we can. 

Love...Ms. Moon