Back to the routine

 It was nice to just go back to the regular routine of my life, after the intense anxiety of the previous weeks.

My treatment went just fine, no difficulties, and my post-treatment night actually allowed time for sleeping between the multiple rounds of cold sweats.

It's been a nice weekend, so far, with beautiful weather. It was 46 degrees when I got up!

Unfortunately, we are in a state of drought, as it has not rained in many weeks.

Dave cleared the growth out of my fire pit, and I set it up yesterday, and roasted a butternut squash, an onion, and several cloves of garlic over a low fire.

Those will be blended into a bisque for our supper tonight!

Last night, we had slow cooked carnitas, and I made fajita style peppers and onions to go along with the luscious meat.  

We also made an apple crisp with a couple of huge honey crisp apples, and while it was baking, I roasted some beef bones for my next batch of stock.  

Dave helped get the carnitas cooking, and helped with the apple crisp!

It smelled SO GOOD in this house all day yesterday!

Today, Dave will do some additional clearing of the back yard, and is going to work on building a shelter for Sammie cat out of a thick styro-foam cooler that we found in the neighbor's trash pile a couple of months ago.

It's going to get hot again this week, but at least the shelter will be set up and ready for when the cold comes. 

We hope that she will use it, and not the resident possum.   Possums are very destructive and filthy, we have found.  They will shit where they sleep, and ruin the straw they're supposed to nest in.

We like having possums around, but they are not really welcome in our cat shelters.   

A friend sent us a "fancy" heated one a few years ago, when we were expecting an "arctic blast," and the damned possum completely destroyed it.  Ripped the fabric it was made of, and soaked it with possum pee.

We never saw our then- "yard cat" use it at all, just the possum.

In other news, Dave has been having a lot of "new" anxiety around retiring.

He went to his psychiatrist, and had a bit of an adjustment to his psych medication.  This is helping him to sleep better, so far.

The doctor also recommended that Dave go back into talk therapy, as well, and he has his first appointment with a new therapist this coming week.

I am very happy about that. 

Today, I will be doing a bit more relaxing!  

In addition to my "production kitchen" activities yesterday, I also did all of the laundry, and my usual chores, AND washed my body pillow, because it needed doing after those cold sweats after chemo.

I'll be putting the pillow back outside in the sunshine and fresh air today, because I love how that makes it smell.

We got our jack-o-lantern pumpkins at Aldi one day last week, and I might put out a little more of my Halloween decorations today.  We'll see.

Have a great week!