SUNDAY UPDATE

Apart from the restricted diet I’m on this past week and today, this has been an excellent weekend. We’ve had beautiful, warm autumn weather with lots and lots of sunshine, and a to-do list that has every item but one now checked off. Lots of laundry, cleaning, and yardwork. Anders has harvested the rest of the potatoes and a handful of late carrots and put the vegetable garden to bed for the winter. He took in the porch swing (I put the rest of the porch furniture away last week) and I washed the canopy cover.

The house is clean and tidy and I just admire it constantly as I’m walking to and fro doing things. I love our house. 🙂 Both guest bedrooms are set up and clean, beds made, and ready for mom and Sarah, who are leaving tomorrow for Germany. They arrive here in just over 2 weeks. Yay!

Anders’ uncle Ingvar passed away on Thursday. He was 96 and though he wasn’t sick, he wasn’t in great health and was more than ready to go. Anders and Maria were there with him at home when he passed. We didn’t see much of him socially over the years but Maria and Anders were down at his place helping with various things during the last year or so. Now starts the work of cleaning out his place, dividing up stuff, selling or auctioning things, and all the paperwork. He was never married and had no kids; it’s only Anders and Maria. There’s more to do than you realize when someone dies and you’re in charge of dealing with everything. A reminder to clean up and put things in order well in advance!

I am going for a colonoscopy tomorrow. Very much NOT looking forward to it but am resigned, and hope it will be quick and painless. They don’t put you to sleep here (which is good), but you can get a sedative. Next week I see a doctor finally about my knee, but am doubtful that I’ll get much help, and am really only hoping that they will send me for an MRI so they can actually see what damage to the meniscus there might be. The x-ray that I have already had won’t really show anything if it is meniscus damage as the physiotherapist thought.

I have a quiet evening ahead of me, just planning to read and work on a crossword puzzle and not think about food as much as is humanly possible. Karin is meeting me at the hospital afterwards to drive me home, as you’re not allowed to drive after a sedative. Anders is leaving for Germany for the week, in the morning, but I have lots going on this week to keep me busy: billiards and monthly AIC meeting on Tuesday, a massage on Thursday, and a Halloween social on Friday, for which I have to bring a dish to share and have no idea what to bring or what to wear.

Hope you are also having a good, productive, relaxing weekend if you are reading this. (Are you reading this?)

Mood: hungry
Music: Hey Ocean!—Big Blue Wave