Life is Good

Prisoner was very focused on something the other side of the deck.  I never did figure out what, but loved that alert look on his face.  We've had mild weather for a few days, following a colder than seasonal patch.

How perfectly lovely that Sunday was looking for a record high temperature, and the Good Life Halfsy was being run a week or two earlier than in years past.  They time it for a bye week or an away game weekend (football competition for the section of town that holds the finish line).  I ran that half marathon four times over the years, but not this year.

I was offered an outing Sunday but turned it down.  I'm in full hermit mood.  Still working my way through old episodes of Murder, She Wrote.  I've got up to season 8, when Jessica moved to an apartment in NYC, only going back to Cabot Cove on the weekends.  In my prior reviews of old episodes, I never got this late in the series.  Perhaps because it hadn't been available on the streaming services I then had; perhaps due to burning out on the series.  Nowadays, no matter what series I may be watching or re-watching, I tend to mix in "live TV" and "YouTube" sessions, so I can let the experience soak in.

Later in the day Sunday, I flipped over to catch the local news, but it was still some football game.  However, across the bottom of the screen was an alert for evacuation of the southwestern part of our county.  Yikes, the drought has made wild grass fires a reality in our state, and this is the closest one has got to our city.  

The family Facebook messenger group filled up with "are you aware" questions, appropriate responses, and later in the evening, my older sister's posts made it clear that being the closest of us to where the fires were... she had packed the musical instruments, etc. into her car, "just in case".  She had seen the coverage of fires in the Western states and how quickly one has to act if ordered to evacuate.  Thankfully, that did not happen, and Monday morning they reported the fires to be "contained", unfortunately with two volunteer firefighters injured, one seriously.  It rained some on Monday, so that helped in the fire areas, but we are still very, very dry.

Wednesday afternoon's walk with kid sis had a destination.  For the first time since the pandemic began, I ate inside a Subway sandwich shop.  Turns out we were the only customers, and there were only two servers on duty, probably due to the "off" hour.  It was very pleasant.

Tuesday and Thursday I have my regular workouts with a personal trainer.  It dawns on me that I've been with this same trainer ever since I retired, except for taking 2020 March through 2021 May "off" for the pandemic.  I started going back once fully vaccinated.  I continued to wear a mask.  Why?  Because I have a chronic drippy nose.  The few times I skipped the mask, I was having to use my sweat towel to also wipe the nose drips.  When I mask, the mask catches it without my having to pause to wipe. Mask goes in the laundry, same as a hanky would.  Shall we call this my auto-hanky?

On Thursday morning I discovered that I once again have a leaky cat.  I at first suspected The Prisoner, since he had this problem last Winter (or maybe even the Winter before, not sure).  But the "puddles" were in the wrong places.  They were in all of Rubia's spots.  I watched them carefully, and Thursday night Prisoner was out all night, and there were puddles / wet covers in all of Rubia's spots again Friday morning.  Now Rubia is at the vet, and I am washing couch pet-covers for the second day in a row.

And suddenly, it's Hallo-weekend, as one advertiser is calling it.  I have not yet laid in the treats for the tricksters, but will probably do so sometime in the next couple of days.  It's supposed to get up to 70℉ on Monday (Halloween), so the great outdoor adventure of trick or treat will be repeated.  It worked well last year.

Hope you're all well, and taking care to adjust to whatever your local season is.  Remember whatever the season to hydrate and get your nutrients!  A little activity is a good thing, too.  Don't forget proper rest, either. After all...

Life is Good...

We can all keep on Sparking!

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