dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable

 My eyes peered into the dark room while my ears strained to hear the faintest sound of retching for much of the night. Pace, pace, pace. Four times I took Adia outside, my bare feet freezing on the frosty deck, once Carm took her out. Aside from the initial puke at 11pm, thankfully there wasn’t anything to clean up inside, but outside might have been another matter. This dog eats anything that isn’t nailed down, including her own poop, so it’s no wonder that she gets an upset tummy sometimes.

I wasn’t exactly energetic today… in fact I was down right lazy. Oh well, still over a week before the cookies all need to be made. When do you start eating your Christmas sweets stash? I’m not saving it for company (but do have some set aside for someone special), so should we hold off until Christmas Eve? Or maybe I’ll haul out a selection on the 23rd when we do a virtual birthday for Shawn after a busy day of lefse and tourtiere making? No, Solstice is the day to start our celebration. Yes, that seems like a good time.

I was in such a rush to get last night’s post out that I forgot to mention that yesterday marked nine months since our lives changed. Pat had come for supper and we talked about keeping to small circles… that was before we really understood what was happening. In reality, circles weren’t a thing until mid June and ours was a small one with Kirsten, her family, Mom, Dad, and Graham. At the beginning of October circles were rescinded. And here we are 9 months later: instructed to have Christmas with our households only. 

On a positive note, today the first vaccine was administered in Canada! It will likely be several months until life can continue as normal - face masks and distancing will be inplace for maybe another year (or more?).

Snow came down for about an hour this afternoon, each large flake brightening the earth like an icy white sun. It rested on branches and covered (somewhat), the dead leaves on the ground. Death seems to be all around us in the fall, before the snow cradles the earth in a comforting blanket. Dormant growing things seem protected by the white cocoon, giving a sort of hope for what will return in the spring.

Tonight we had another IPA. Jurassic was bright with a mid range of citrus. We both liked it and will drink it again, although it doesn’t measure up to our top 3 (boneshaker, space invaders, upside). This has been a really fun way to countdown to December 24th.

“People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable – deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.”

~Alice Munro

the quote made me think of my blog: dull, simple, (not) amazing, and unfathomable