Season's End

 Well, the Chicago Cubs are out of the play offs.

This season was so surreal.  No people in the stands, only 60 regular season games. 

Hopefully, next year will be more normal.  Time will tell.

Unfortunately, I now realize how much I was relying on the games to distract me from the terrible state of the country and world.  When they lost the other day, I literally wept.  It was a real sense of loss for me, because a layer of insulation against the stress was taken away.

We've still been enjoying mostly good weather.  There was one afternoon when it was 90 degrees, and there are a couple more in the forecast for next week, but mostly, it's been nice.

No rain, though, at all... not even when we were supposed to get storms last weekend.  Things are drying out quite a bit.

Dave did some yard work yesterday out front, and will mow in the back today.  Maybe I will help with that.  I like to mow, but don't do it when the weather is not.

Yesterday, he spread clover seed in the bare spots under the shade out front.  Hopefully, in the spring and early summer, we will be helping out the bees!  We have quite a bit of clover in the back yard already.  

I have an online guided meditation this afternoon, but other than that, our only plans are to go to Costco this morning while the crowds are at church, and we also want to get the guitars dusted off and re-start me teaching Dave the basics of how to play a simple song.

Our friends from Switzerland gave me a guitar, and we want to show them that it's being loved and appreciated, so we hope to do an online get together at Christmas time, and play for them.

Franklin the cat is in his 12th month.  It's getting harder to tell him and Pete apart.  He's definitely smaller than Pete, but once he fills out, it will be even harder to tell them apart, HAHA!  

Frank hadn't broken anything lately, but last night, for some unknown reason, he tore across the windowsill above the kitchen sink, and knocked my solar bobble heads off.  

He broke my Queen Elizabeth, but she should be fixable.  Her head doesn't bobble, but her hand does the queen wave, and that was not broken off.

I haven't weighed Frank lately, but the last time I did, he was 11 pounds.

There's really nothing else to report.  

I get my labs drawn tomorrow, and then Tuesday, I go to the clinic for my port flush and monthly injection.  By not seeing Doc this time, I'll start the new routine of only seeing him every other month.

The only reason I had to get labs this time is because my sodium was "off" last time, and they want to make sure it's stabilized.

Chances are, if that's all good, then I will switch to only needing labs drawn every other month, too, beginning with next month before I see Doc again.

I am off to the shower.  Have a good day, and a good week!