Today was a better day although an early morning wake up left me feeling a bit bleary for much of the day. We were expecting a service person from Shaw, our satellite tv company, as we’ve been having trouble with our signal - you might recall that we ‘trimmed’ and ‘felled’ a few trees a few weeks ago. Alas, we’ll have to move the dish away from the house.
We took a trip into the village to pick up some supplies for installing a new post - apparently the lumber yard was barren, so even if we wanted to update our deck we’d be SOL. Once home the digging started. I stood around batting my eyes, offering water and generally being a pain. Adia rocketed around, tiring before Carm.
Before he fell to the ground in exhaustion - the ground is seriously hard and just about pure clay so it’s pretty hard work to extract each handful - ‘we’ stopped for a rest and a swim. The water was barely 24C so refreshed rather quickly. It felt wonderful!
The rest did its job and refreshed Carm enough to have another round with the shovel. Six more inches of heavy clay was removed before he stopped for supper.
Spike’s jumping around like he did when he was young, except he misses and crashes to the floor, he tried getting on the futon again and once there jumped around and basically fell off. It’s heartbreaking. Now he’s cuddled up to Adia with his head resting on her side.
Headline tonight: 5,028,027 cases with 162,708 deaths in the US. There are a total of 118,514 (118,187 yesterday) cases of Covid-19 in Canada today, with 8,966 (8,962 yesterday) deaths today.
“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
~Honoré de Balzac
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