Thoughts and Wanders

Miss Naughty Pants

My unusual little twerp decided to help me with laundry yesterday. I don't know for sure if it's a look of defiance or just Frieda. Which would make it one and the same!

Another daily weather report, it is 30 degrees at the outskirts of the Twin Cities, this 26th day of April. The weather guy said this morning all indications are we will have an above average hot summer. Again. It's becoming average for Minnesota to have heat and humidity not befitting a far northern state. What will happen is one day we will go to bed below freezing and the next we will wake up to 90 and tropical humidity. This has been the biggest reason why my outside space has started to deteriorate, I cannot take that kind of weather. I lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, it wasn't for me. But now it has become our norm.

I have stated a few times that I have become barely mobile over the last eighteen months or so. I've been through the medical loops and physical therapy. I've done the exercises, I use my pedal machine and treadmill. I'm not better. I am going to try deep tissue massage, I'm so tight. I have come to a conclusion that it is stress related. There is no medical problem with my hips or back, yet I cannot stand straight nor walk more than a few feet at a time. A friend who is a psychiatric nurse suggested I consider therapy but I don't really want to delve too deeply into that can of worms. He did himself and thinks I should. I'll try massage therapy first. I bought and then did not read the book "The Body Keeps Score" by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. Another friend had a pile of books she'd purchased on her Instagram yesterday and that was one of them, which reminded me I have it. I should probably read it.

I hope we have some weather were I can tend and enjoy my flower beds. It is cathartic. In the meantime, I am using a lot of the wood Mark spent hours chopping and stacking, so there is that to enjoy. A nice evening fire with music and a glass of red wine.

Domani Amiche