Quiet Waters, Boring Mind--

Aside from horrific dog trauma, things have been pretty dismally noneventful around here.

The news that hangs in our windows and filters the coming summer sun is that my sister is starting up her chemo again.

The last time she had chemo, I shaved my head in solidarity, but...

...some of you may recall...

...my baldness scared the crap out of her.

(I'm a bit scary bald, or so they tell me...)

Indolence breeds indolence. Ever notice? I don't feel funny inside, and the world seems thicker somehow, these days. The less I do, the less I feel like doing. I dunno, maybe it's just age and a creaky back telling me to rest awhile; to take it easy; to spend time reading and learning and satisfying curiosities I've long had about things I've long back burnered. I don't really feel like me all that much, and sometimes wonder if I should do something about it? On the other hand, I feel like I am feeding me, taking time to relax and read and ponder things outside of "how to build it" or "how to fix it"...

Are we mind or are we movement?

Or are we a healthy mixture of both?

Mum is busy filling knitted hat orders. We both had a laugh when she got the stitch count wrong on a hat she's making for fellow bloggers and it fit snugly over a regulation sized soccer ball.

Crap! It is amazing to watch someone pull apart three days worth of knitting in a matter of minutes... All that work!

Now that the weather is warmer, I've been dragging Mum down to the lake (ok, so I drive her down there) where there is plenty of flat asphalt she can motor around on, exercising her spindly grandma legs while getting out to see the ducks and watch the dogs sniff around. We are lucky to have such a nice lake just down the road, so letting it sit idly unused on a warm spring day just seems criminal.

I think AELEOPE has suffered from my lack of internal optimism and goofiness, but it is a reflection of me, after all. I've noticed AELEOPE taken off the link-lists lately, of some blogs I read, and it adds to my over-all feeling of so-whatness and peanut butter malaise...

The economic outlook has slowed the building of stuff down to where there is nothing exciting going on. There is a pizza-place in Cave Junction in the works (A Winnebago ran right through the front of the original building), but I haven't heard much positive in the way of a start date.

We own this property outright, and I've watched the value go from over-inflated to lose 55,000 dollars in this last year of economic downturn. In a way, this is a good thing, as the price of homes was getting ridiculous due to what transpired in the home lending/buying marketplace.


Well, that's it for today. Journal shut. Left-overs await. And I'm hungry for something...