Good Saturday to you from our corner of the world where heat and humidity have covered us like a suffocating cloud all week. Stifling. That is the word. Extra grateful for our air conditioning and not having to be out in the 90-100 heat index. Thursday afternoon we had a storm roll in and our area got over 2 1/2 inches of rain. The temperature cooled off and we took advantage of it, sitting on the porch and enjoying the cooler breezes. So nice..........
Thursday Joel decided to get a little "domestic" work done. He got Nora going to take care of the floors on the main level before taking the steamer mop to them. Who is Nora? Nora is our iRobot Rooma our oldest son and his family got us a couple of Christmases ago. We named her Nora after our faithful maid we had while living in the Philippines. She would clean and do many household chores with a baby on each hip. Some of the weekly cleaning had to be done every day there due to the bug population. She was heaven sent.
While we were talking about getting Nora busy on the floors I tried to remember the official name. of the robot. A Roomba? Maybe a Zumba? It had me thinking about all the confusing words that are being thrown around out there. There are Zubaz those colorful sweatpants that our son-in-law K. liked to wear in the 90's. There is Zumba the latest exercise craze too. And then there is Roomba.........that round robot with a mind of it's own that does the floors for you. Maybe you can see how I might get confused on a bad health day and forget what Nora's official name is!
Speaking of a bad health day, I could use some extra prayers concerning the side effects from the Zometa infusion nearly 3 weeks ago. I have been struggling with some nasty symptoms that have me spending way too much time on the sofa. I see the oncologist on the 20th but I know they can't really do anything for this. It is in me to stay for awhile.......Prayer is my first "go-to" guys, so thanks for praying.
Speaking of praying, last week Joel cut my hair at my urging. He was not too excited about doing it but since it is mostly curls what was the harm? I cut the sides and he cut the back. It feels better and looks more uniform, but I am still hanging on to hope that it will grow more on top. Like soon...........yesterday even! If not? A plan B will be put into affect.......a new normal I guess.
Speaking of normal, does anyone else feel there is nothing much normal about 2020? A year where we looked forward to having a normal life again exploded, imploded, and regurgitated. It has released fear, anger, hate, confusion, exhaustion, loneliness, weariness, and wariness, in people, and I'm thinking a whole lot more c.r.a.z.y. It kind of feels a bit like the picture above...........if 2020 were a train ride! But it does not end there. I keep clinging to the verse in Romans that tells us God will work all things together for good.....He will. He does. It looks like the train has derailed and the tracks cannot be put back together again, but they can. It is kind of like singing that song............"Jesus Take The Wheel". Jesus, get us on the right train tracks again Lord as we move slowly into a new normal. We are relying on your promises!
This early morning we sat on the porch enjoying the weather before the temperatures rise. We watched squirrels chasing each other, a rabbit graze in our yard, and several kinds of birds greeting each other to start the day I'm thinking! There was no sign of the doe and her baby fawn around today. Then we ventured out for a drive. I just had to get off the sofa and out of the house and so we went to a little town nearby and visited their organic store. Then headed back to our micro-city to the garden center/market we go to and Joel went in and picked up fresh watermelon, peaches, and corn on the cob. The last purchases were so good we needed more! Yesterday Joel shopped for groceries too buying large quantities of the things we use a lot. We are trying to stretch out the store shopping again since the cases in our country, although small in comparison to big cities, have quadrupled in the last three weeks!
Joel was busy this week with woodworking, biking, shopping, and a bit of cleaning. I was busy with attempting to walk daily , cook a little, do a puzzle, write, read, and rest. Rest seems to be my middle name although that is gonna change! I refuse to partner with that way of life!
Speaking of life, I sure hope yours is going well in mid July. All is good here where the Iowa corn is tasseling as the heat is rising. We are grateful we live with some space around us so we can be out and enjoy nature.
Enjoy your weekend!
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