Continuing to Normalcy

Is that a word? Normalcy?

Anyway, we are on our way to being more normal. Mary drove for the first time yesterday, just around Los Gatos but still the first time she has taken the wheel for over a month. Reenie and Mary did get to the park and they did walk a bit along the pattern that Mary often walks with our dogs. Except Mary didn't have the strength to do the whole loop at one time so she sat down for a while to catch her breath. No, they did not take the dogs with them.

Our weather has returned to early spring. Its colder, so much so Mary and Reenie put the top up on the convertible. Yesterday was very grey but today the sun was out as I drove to work.

Our maid service arrives tomorrow for the first time in a month. We have them in every other Wednesday but we cancelled their last visit because Mary had just come out of ERCP#3 and was not up to leaving the house for a couple of hours. Nor, was I able to ready the house for the cleaning process as I was playing nurse. With Reenie's help, we will be ready tomorrow and that is good because Wiggles is a dust bunny generator like you have never seen. The most common tool used in the house is not electronic. Rather it is one of those sticky rollers that pulls while dog hair off of dark clothing. When the granddaughters were here for Easter, I gave them our battery powered vaccuum cleaner and instructed them on the finer points of capturing dust bunnies. They took the job seriously and did a great job of removing dust bunnies.

Reenie returns to Da Loot tomorrow. She will be back from North Country on May 19--we hope about the time Mary is released from Stanford. Renie is hoping to not experience the "white rain" that occasionally happens in northern Minnesota while she is home. One cannot use the s--w word in May, it makes Reenie crazy. S--w is a 'four letter word' to someone who is suffering their seventh month of cabin fever.

Pat