THE EVE OF ST-JEAN

For the past two days I haven’t been able to do much other than sleeping (in spurts of 3 to 4 hours, but deep sleeps), cleaning up in the house, and thinking. Adapting to change.

Oh, and still limping, although the swelling in my foot has gone down some. Apparently all one can do is not walk on it, or use crutches. Right. Obviously the remedy is not meant for someone living in a house with many, many stairs. That’s me, who would rather have a sore foot than a broken neck – the most probable result from my trying to negotiate said stairs on crutches. I’ve stopped the pain killers. The foot is uncomfortable, or a better description would be annoying, but most of the time not bad enough to need to buzz myself out.

I did take the time to stop in and see my bro, Bird. He has 3 scans to get done before mi-August, and one of them is on Monday. That’s the same day as my appointment for new brake installation on my truck. It shims when I try to stop, but has done at least 100,000 km since the present brakes were installed, so I count myself lucky. Back to Bird – he thinks Fran may be free to drive him into the city for his scan, will let me know tomorrow (later today – it’s 1 AM). Whatever happens, we shall manage to work it out so that he gets there.

I also spent a little time with my Amiga, Suzie, who arrived yesterday from Detroit. Talk about good timing!! What a sight for sore eyes!!! I’m looking forward to lots of giggling, heart-to-heart talks, and, of course, a little tequila thrown in for the fun of it, LOL! She plans to be around for a couple of weeks. Her company is most welcome!!

My youngest son and new-again daddy Jo came over and did some fix-it moves around the house last night. He and I chatted for a long while when he was finished. His new baby boy was seen by specialists in Ottawa today. Mummy has something in her blood that shows up in each baby’s system when they are newborns, so each baby has to be checked out. It’s a good precautionary measure. We’ll have the results in 3 weeks. So far Mummy has not passed it on to her two older boys, so we’ll keep fingers crossed that this one will be okay too.

Bow & Yo are watching over our poor little AC (the female of the two cats). AC is dying from some feline disease, and both my children are heartbroken. We get so attached to our pets, and it hurts like hell to lose one. When AC does go to Rainbow Bridge, her remains will be buried here in the bush beside Beef, and Ben, and Mouse.

I have a couple of hours of work to do tomorrow morning, and expect to see Bow & Yo arrive later during the day for our sad task, so off I go to get some more shut-eye. No celebrating of St-Jean for me, although I could hear the fireworks (probably from Morin Heights) while sitting on my gallery tonight. Hope everyone out there is having a good time, and that they are VERY diligent about designated drivers.

Take care, y’all – sending you SMILES.

Luv from the Bush in Quebec