Tuesday - April 7th

Today I hired an assistant - someone who can go out into the community in my stead and make purchases for me. Ethan. He works cheap. Gasoline and McDonalds money. Actually here's the deal. He is young and healthy. I am old and not so healthy. He has a car. I do not have a car. He is broke. I have money. We are a match made on Earth. I had a short list of items I really needed, primarily ibuprofen and shampoo, so I asked him if he wanted to get out and run my errand. He was able to find nearly everything on my list except toilet paper. No biggie on that. I still have two full rolls and two half ones. He is going to come by next Wednesday to tackle an even longer list after my SS deposit is made.

Today it is raining. Tonight it is supposed to hail. The temperature is in the 50s.  Brownee and I would like to go for a walk but it's not looking to good for that.

The Michigan legislature extended the Stay-at-Home order until April 30th. There are now 7 cases of the virus right here in Kimball Township. I will continue to stay at home.

Saturday - April 4th

It was a gorgeous day today. The sun was shining and it got up to about 60 degrees. So after I finally got up, got showered and dressed and my hair was dry, Brownee and I went out for a walk around the neighborhood. We were joined by Lynn and Ripley. We maintain our physical distance by walking on opposite sides of the street. We talked to numerous neighbors who were out in their yards, or were out walking themselves.

Fed-Ex delivered my CTMH order - watercolor paints and brushes. Tomorrow I hope to play a bit with them. We probably should stay in because it is going to be colder and my legs are giving me issues (they really hurt). It just might be a good day to put on Netflix, settle into the couch, and try to create a background or three.

One thing is for certain, it is getting harder for me to stay awake much beyond 8:30, if I don't take an afternoon nap. And if I do take an afternoon nap, then I can't get to sleep ever.

Sunday

Whoa! I almost went this entire day without doing a post. I kept myself fairly busy, I guess.

Brownee and I walked the Trail all the way to McDonald's. I had hoped to get an order of chicken nuggets and an iced tea but that was not to be. I couldn't get the app to work correctly. So we walked back home. There were lots of people out on the Trail today. People on bikes, people with dogs, and just people. Brownee was holding it together up until the very end when she just lost it. Fortunately we only had to go from Hidden Lakes to the cut through and we were then back onto the Lakes property. She just gets so over stimulated.

People walking by us got a kick out of her pink hoodie. It came in yesterday's mail. I wish it had the buttonhole for the harness so I could put it underneath the hoodie but it was $17 cheaper than the ones that come with the buttonhole - enough said.

I knitted the afternoon away. Also watched the TV program Vera. Had macaroni and cheese for lunch, and then rice and hamburger for dinner. I had a bit of a migraine much of the afternoon. It rained late in the afternoon. 

Saturday's Walk

We finally got outside! It has been raining all day, after raining all night. Once around the big lake and then over to the mailbox and back to the house.

I also took a 2 hour nap this afternoon. Sitting around is quite tiring.

Today's Walk

It's a bit warmer out today than it was yesterday, by about 5 degrees or so. I took Brownee out for a much longer walk. We both needed to get out of the house, that's for sure.

We started out by heading to the Wadhams to Avoca Trail and walked down it until we came to the cut-through that goes back into the Lakes. We saw several others walking, six I believe is what I counted. No one I knew. Getting back onto the Lakes property got us back into what seems like a ghost town. There is no one out and about except us and a couple of cars. 

We did stop at one neighbor's house, at Mark's, to check on him. He lives alone, like me. I wanted to offer him the three frozen spaghetti dinners I bought that have mushrooms in them but he doesn't eat mushrooms either. Oh well, I will find someone who does.

Finally!

After having a migraine for 8 days I am happy to see the temperature drop below freezing. January is usually the month I am fairly migraine free. And that is because the weather goes into a deep freeze.

It is nice to have a day without a migraine.