I struggled for a few minutes trying to wake up this morning - it had been a rough night of tossing and turning, too hot then too cold. But the dogs were already awake and the inssessent click clack of their nails on the floor made it impossible to just roll over and go back to sleep. But wait! My eyes popped open. We had an adventure planned today!
With the rather weak premise of delivering some chokecherry seedlings we climbed into the truck and took off cross country towards Kirsten’s. We took the back roads and passed many beautiful views - food for the eyes and a feast for the soul.
And then we were there. Carm and I started looking around for a good place for the trailer, and were joined by Shawn. It is so hard not to hug someone! Soon Kirsten and the girls were also on the scene. Virtual hugs. I couldn’t take my eyes off them at all, afraid that they’d disappear for another long while.
We walked around the property, investigating trailer spots and electrical outlets. We identified a few places to plant the chokecherries (which is why we were there after all). We had coffee and donuts, all carefully distributed from a distance.
We couldn’t stay all day… Adia was home in her crate… so we eventually took our leave, although I had to drag Carm a bit - he was more talkative than usual - a 9 week backlog I suppose ;-)
It was pretty silent in the truck driving home... perhaps we were trying to prolong the feeling of being with family.
As it turns out, Adia survived, didn’t have an accident in her crate, didn’t shred her blanket, but ran around the field like a manic maniac.
Headline tonight: Golf courses open today. 1,506,227 cases with 89,538 deaths in the US. There are a total of 75,864 (74,613 yesterday) cases of Covid-19 in Canada today, with 5,679 (5,562 yesterday) deaths to date.
“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”
~Laini Taylor
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