I forgot to blog the last two days. Significant memories on those two days too. October 11 was the day four years ago I arrived in Santiago after walking 500 miles on the Camino. It was a wonderful ending to my journey. October 12 would have been my mother’s 90th birthday. Hard to imagine her as an old person – she lived life young. I still miss her physical presence but feel her spirit with me often. On the 13th of October, 2015 I flew to Paris to start a week with Kathy as a celebration of walking the Camino.
I came to Oklahoma Friday afternoon after cleaning up the house from having a guest for two nights. My guest was quiet and gone much of the time. He was the second guest in a row that left without saying anything. I hadn’t had guests do that before – wonder what is up with that.
Yesterday Jim and I put together one of four sets of railings for his front porch. I had painted the rails last time I was here. It was interesting to see how he put them together. Friday and Saturday we walked around Boomer Lake which is a little over a three mile walk.
Friday I ended up taking a pain pill. My foot had been aching for over three days and I was tired of it yelling at me. I slept for 12 hours Friday night and took two short naps Saturday. One pill! I slept again last night and finally feel normal again this morning. I don’t think I would make a good drug addict as all I would do is sleep.
Today we will go to church this morning and probably put together another set of railings this afternoon. We might even get two or three sets put together. The first set always takes the longest. I’m sure we will take another walk around the lake too. It is to be a beautiful day here with the temperatures in the 70’s.
I was disappointed on Friday when I call the jewelry store and found out my ring was not ready yet. I had taken my mother’s wedding ring in over three weeks ago to have it sized and the diamond replaced. When I dropped it off they told me it would be ready in three weeks. They had told me a week ago that it would be ready as promised on Wednesday. When I called Friday they said they needed another week to finish it. I dislike when a store tells you one thing and then doesn’t come through with that. They didn’t bother to call me and tell me there was a delay. Whatever happened to good old fashioned customer service?
I called the hardware store that was to have had my deck paint ready to pick up Friday. It is about 40 minutes out of the way to go to it and I didn’t want to waste my time if it wasn’t ready. I’m glad I called as it hadn’t come in on the truck as planned. He promised to call me when it comes in. Hopefully it will come this week and I can go over and get it before I go back to KS on the 21st.
I have about ten things like the above pending that I can’t seem to cross off my to do list. All are waiting for someone else to do something for me. Hopefully things will come together soon and I can get some things crossed off my list. I’m trying to clear it all off before I have surgery November 6. May or may not happen at this rate.
My summer boarder stopped and pick up an item he had left at my house when he moved out in August. At least that is one more thing removed from my lost and found pile. I’m surprised he stopped and got it but am grateful he did so. I don’t like being responsible for someone else’s things.
Having a wonderful time with Jim doing the normal things of life. We don’t do anything special together usually although Friday evening we went to Jim’s church for an organ recital. It was wonderful. The guy that played really showed off the range of what an organ can do. The meditative pieces he played were my favorite. I had never gone to an organ recital before.
As nice as the weather is I almost wished I was at home so I could finish painting my deck. I’m afraid the cold weather is going to come in and I won’t get that project finished this year. We shall see what happens I guess. I will have two more weeks after I get home before I have surgery to get it done. Crossing my fingers fall will hang around and it won’t be winter yet.
Grateful for a safe trip to Oklahoma, grateful to have this time with Jim, and grateful to be able to walk three miles without pain or worry.