daily snapshot: July 20, 2018 at 09:52PM

Trail run success Crystal Falls 8.7k round trip... And I'm still a mostly normal color #flick
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flower watering, shared responsibilities and hiring a gardener...

these alliums? obviously watered well

Saw this video (Erin Brokovich: If you don't water the flowers, they don't grow - I tried to embed the video but Blogger won't let me...or maybe it has?) shared in a group I belong to yesterday and it makes perfect sense .... except that it shouldn't only be you doing the watering.

Going to therapy takes your time; sitting watching the kids play takes your time; reading a book takes your time; watering the flowers takes your time.

Yes, it's all self renewal, but if you're also doing all the caring for, concierging, arranging, monitoring, scheduling, managing, orchestrating and so on in your family, this is just one more item on your to-do list.

Since everyone benefits from all the care, scheduling, management, etc. and everyone else benefits from your self renewal - shouldn't they also put in some effort?

When does care for you, your relationship, your mental, intimate, physical self land on someone else's to-do list... and when does it get done? When do your flowers get watered so they bloom for both you and that someone else to enjoy?

And of course ditto...but then you're already doing that anyway...and it's exhausting. Maybe you've forgotten where your flowers are that need watering, or maybe you don't know what's going to bloom cos you've forgotten what you planted. Or maybe that particular garden bed is long gone through drought?

Whatever.

Plant some potatoes, or succulents, or drought-hardy grasses - just plant something that can thrive in whatever level of watering is available...heck! hire a gardener, but make it something you enjoy.

Leaving it bare earth is totally cool too cos maybe you've moved on to cats anyway!

daily snapshot: July 12, 2018 at 02:42PM

sigh. so true recently. reeling from a few nights/days off neck pain and stiffness, headaches and exhaustion ... feeling much better today. amazing how not being in pain makes such a difference. hats off to my friends who deal with this on a daily basis
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daily snapshot: June 22, 2018 at 09:26PM

All change #spt
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daily snapshot: June 21, 2018 at 10:27PM

This evening has been magical. At around 8pm, I got a phone call from the emergency vet surgery. The new nurse there has been phoning everyone who has left property there. I didn't leave about but as many of you know, the last time I was there was when I took Rosco because he was so sick. Just over a year ago, he was euthanased and it broke my heart. I couldn't bring myself to phone to find out if his paw print had arrived; heard nothing so I thought it had been lost. But it hadn't. This evening, Thomas and I brought Rosco home.
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