Another Day, Another Post

I realize that's a fairly pathetic picture but it's one small group of the plants Mr. Moon and I moved from the front porch into the house today. Those are in the Glen Den. I had said I was going to let my plants root hog or die but seeing the below freezing temperatures we're going to be having for at least a week, I knew that if I didn't want to lose a bunch of them, we'd have to move them in. So I unwrapped them and was surprised and quite happy to find they all looked to be in pretty good shape, actually. I think wrapping them in plastic before I wrapped them in sheets really did help. And all I'd done was bag them up in kitchen garbage bags which are back in the cabinet now, ready to be used for their intended purposes. I've got some in the Glen Den, a few in the library, and some in the dining room. Most of the ones in the library and dining room were brought in a few weeks ago as were all the plants in the hallway, because they were light enough for me to handle by myself. The huge ones though, Glen put on the hand cart and we trundled them in that way.

The ones that have been in the library look very happy. 

Okay, that Monstera plant on the right looks a little yellow but I think it's okay. Can you see the jigsaw puzzle I've got going there on the left? 
Pro tip: If you need a magnifying glass to do a jigsaw puzzle, it may not be worth the effort. Oh well. It's not the completing, it's the doing, right? 

A few random hallway plants. 

And some of the dining room plants. 
Every year I vow and declare that we are too old to bring my babies in and every year, we do it anyway. Glen actually almost insisted this year. I kept trying to convince him that it wasn't really necessary. I mean...they're just plants. But he wasn't having it. He is a sweetheart. And as I said to a friend today, he is just undaunted. Me? Anything can be too daunting to even consider. Like getting up to pee in the middle of the night. Too daunting. Cleaning the baseboards. Oh, WAY too daunting. Raking leaves for garden mulching? Please. No way. 
But he just burns on through one task after another and sometimes he even inspires me to help. 

So we did that and then he went to town to get pine straw to put under and around the garden sink and I swept up the litter that bringing plants in always causes and I watered all of them. And then, because I was being so darn domestic, I cleaned out the dishwasher filter which is always a rather nasty job but not that bad, really. Just one of those things you put off and then, having finally done it you wonder why in hell you put it off for so long. It's not that big a deal. I did laundry and I tidied a little and all in all, not such a bad day. 
A cold day though. And getting colder. I will NOT complain, however. 
You know I lie. I will complain. 

Tomorrow morning I'm going in to get that follow-up on the CT scans of my kidneys. I am very curious to find out what they showed. Did I already say that? I'm sure I did. But the truth is, I am. And I'm probably asking more of the urologists and P.A.'s than they'll be able to give me which is some sort of prophecy, I guess, about whether or not I'm ever going to have another stone which makes a serious attempt to escape the kidney and I doubt they can really answer that. Also- what are the odds that the "too big to pass" stone is going to fuck me up? 
Again. I don't think they'll have any definitive answers. 
But it will be one more thing to check off my medical "to do" list and that's always good. 

I really don't have that much more to say this evening. I thank all of you who read and/or read and commented on yesterday's post. Suddenly, I had to say something. I spit it out like someone who has mistakenly taken a swig of spoiled, soured milk, uncontrollably and without thought although of course, I did think about it as I wrote it but there was no more holding it in. 

This will probably happen again. 

Of course it will happen again. 

Meanwhile, here's what Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota, had to say to Pam Machine Gun Lying Lips Bondi today in a press conference. 
I generally tell anyone who reads here that there's no real need to watch any video I post because watching videos can seem and be a real waste of time if you're just not that interested or invested in the subject matter. However. If you can, I'd recommend watching this one. It is short.

In a parallel universe, that good man, that no bullshit man, is the vice president of the United States of America and none of this horror is happening and none of us feels the need every waking moment to know what horrendous event has taken place since we last checked because Kamala Harris is our president and Walz stands squarely behind her and they've got it covered. 

Well. 

Stay warm. Take care. Love the ones you're with and show them that love in all the ways you can. 

Like this. 

Love...Ms. Moon