How June just flits away and how I love returning to routine. So it's Sat morning, and I've finished yogalates and have this interim at B & N before going to NIA at noon. No sooner were we back in the country than we set out for our home in Utah--and also a farewell reception for the 10th Bishop of Utah, Carolyn Tanner Irish, who ordained me. That was quite wonderful, catching up with Utah clergy and sharing a long lunch with friend Mary at the Oasis in SLC.
Also good to connect with friends at our place, to arrange for some floor repairs, sleep late, not having to get up for early morning walks or Weds. Eucharist. Cleaning and throwing out things, which I'm trying to do in both houses. Then back to Boulder, where life catches up--not knowing what has happened to our mail, for instance. Mary Kate+ has had bike accident with a mangled finger, stitches in another one, bruises and pain, numbness. I move back in to St. A's duties, feeling a tug with wanting some moer time to go back and forth, stay at home, write, and watch the portulaca bloom.
Summer reading:The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and the next one, something about a hangman's knot, features the 11-year old detective Flavia, a specialist in poisons, who has her own chem lab. Can't remember the author's name.
Must get in contact with my Chartres group, have heard only from dear Annabel.
Portulace blooming, honeysuckle outrageously blossoming orange and theyellow columbine, must be 30 in all, up against that bright color while the lobelia becomes a brighter blue in its yellow pot and the geraniums stubbornly refuse to put out any blossoms. Jupiter's Beard taking over the cone flowers in front, and some timid cosmos plants, small and lacey, try one more summer after being poisoned by grounds keepers last year. Lavender blooming and flox past its time. It's June in our yard--tomatoes planted once more in their bin, and we hope for the yield we had last year.
Doug scheduled for rotator cuff surgery on Tues--I manage my ulcers, and my eye checkup led my dr. to have me return in a couple of weeks for peripheral vision test re: glaucoma, since Patsy has it, and my original test showed some "thinning" of something. Just trying to keep above water here, re: the body--
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