Slow news week

Let's see...what can I blog about today?

The protests in OKC continue, but the violence has stopped.  We are hoping that the world wide expression of free speech will result in actual, tangible change.

The numbers for new COVID-19 cases in the state of Oklahoma have been reaching new daily highs, more people than ever before are testing positive since "re-opening" in a state that never fully shut down.

SO MUCH WINNING!!

As a result, we are looking at a long summer of isolation.

Fortunately, things are different than they were in March, and if we do have to go out to run an errand, there are safety measures in place at most of the places we would need to go, and we are well supplied with high quality masks.

Dave goes to Costco every few weeks, and Trader Joe's just about every week.  Other than that, we have everything else delivered.

The person who tested positive at the place where Pop lives apparently did not spread the virus to anyone else at the facility.  Everyone continues to test negative.

For some reason, though, it's newly impossible to get a phone call through to Pop.  Dave is going to call the Director to see why that is happening.

Pop's birthday falls on Father's Day this year, so Dave and his brothers are putting together a little video to send to him.  We did our part yesterday.  I am amazed that the brothers came up with the idea, since they rejected the idea of calling Pop on a regular basis.

Not that they'd be able to now if they tried, for whatever reason.

Our range delivery has been delayed, so we will be 16 days without a working oven (unless they update the delivery date again).  I am grateful that the stove works.

The weather here has improved, and the forecast that had called for 102 and above all next week has been changed to low 90s.

The mornings have been absolutely beautiful!  I got Dave up yesterday (he usually likes to stay in bed until 9 or after on the weekends), and we got the mowing done, and he did some trimming of the shrubs.

We finished everything by about 10:30, and didn't have to close up the house and turn on the air conditioning until after noon.

This morning is no exception.  The screen doors are open, and the breeze is blowing through the house.  I love being able to hear my wind chimes, instead of having to be buttoned up inside the house with the air on!

My little container garden seems to be doing well. Everything is blooming, and I saw a butterfly back there yesterday, so maybe we will have some produce eventually.

My "flower mound" out in the back yard is also doing well, and I hope that we will have blooming yarrow and black eyed susans by August.

After I mowed the back yard yesterday, I carefully removed some weeds and grass runners from that bed, to give the little plants a better chance.

Unfortunately, Oklahoma is in a drought already.  It hasn't rained in weeks, and the lawn is already turning brown.

June is supposed to be the "wettest" month of the year, and we haven't had a drop.  I go out and water my plant babies every dawn and dusk.

The humidity has been so low that the afternoon "heat index" has been lower than the actual temperature.  Unfortunately, along with the wind, that means high fire danger.

I have my bi-weekly blood draw tomorrow, and monthly trip to the clinic on Tuesday.  I think I am going to ask Doc if I can just change back to the other hormone blocker. 

I am remembering why I wanted off of this one in the first place.

Sigh.  I guess I just have to pick which pain I want to live with.

I need to be able to move my right arm, and to walk without heel tendon pain.  Maybe I can learn to do some kind of yoga to ease the thigh tendon pain that the drug I want to go back to causes.

Dave wants me to ask when we are doing another scan, but the thought of it fills me with anxiety.  We'll see what happens Tuesday. 

I always have to ask... you'd think my team would be more on top of that then they are, but it's just always been that way.

Anyway, I am hoping that my hemoglobin count is better than my last blood draw.  I don't want to have to have a transfusion. I feel okay, so I don't think it's that bad yet.

We got up at 6:30 this morning.  Both of us were having issues with sinus congestion, and the cats were acting up, so we surrendered to being awake, and have been up now for 2 hours already, and its only 8:30.

Hopefully, that will make this lazy day seem to stretch on and on.  I like days off like that.

I am getting hungry, so I am going to make our Sunday breakfast.  Have a good day, and a good week!