I love Meredith’s – (@meredith787148 on Substack) work. My heart just melted when I saw this one.
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It was chilly this morning with the wind blowing when we went to and from the gym. My instant-on hot water in the shower was a lifesaver for me today. While I was waiting a few minutes for it to be time to go for my Friday massage, Brian texted me that our housekeeper had something come up and wouldn’t be here to clean today, so I’m still rearranging plans and things. I’ll go to the cafe at my ‘normal’ time this afternoon after finishing what I can do in my condo. Brian suggested we go to the ‘Night Market’ (this is held in my favorite smaller mall) for dinner and looking around this evening. I really think we could go every day, stay all day, for some unfathomable amount of time, before we saw everything. I just love the FEEL of the place and the local artisans are really impressive. (This is where I got the cats embroidered tee recently.)
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I picked up my lunch that was waiting when I finished my massage. Today’s lunch was some kind of chicken with mostly hard-boiled egg to be cut up and combined with it. It was a bit spicy, but not bad. There was a salad, scoop of multi-rice, and a wedge of fresh orange. I’m feeling better since I started eating lunch. I’m up to 106 now and I feel more energetic. This morning I did 10 minutes of the treadmill on 6% incline and then the next 15 on 10% before gradually cooling down.
I did a good session with Aussie Mike yesterday. I am really trying to work on my balance, since I’m still pretty pathetic. Sheila suggested I stand on one foot for 30 seconds, and then the other, as well. Maybe in my next lifetime. I hope her husband, Richard, is having better success than I. I will keep working on it every day, two or three times a day. I’ll also do the balance exercises with Mike every other day when I’m also doing my arm exercises. I feel lucky that I’m well enough now to be DOING extra exercises. Today is yoga stretches that I hope to do before I go to the cafe.
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I base-painted the two remaining ghost sketches plus one of a mother elephant and her baby. I’ll take those with me this afternoon.
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Right now the temperature is at 80 and the air quality in the ‘good’ range, so I opened the windows to air everything out while I do my yoga. The afternoons in the ‘cool season’ are quite nice. The cafe will probably have all their doors open to the breezes, though my wonderful massage therapist added a second layer of covering for me this morning.
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I’m working on an article for Substack on the mailbox decorations we made with the special equipment we set up when we still lived in Arkansas. Hopefully, I can get that up this week.
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