It was a dark & dusty month or two . . .

The Lockdown hasn't done me any favors physically. I've been mostly at home sitting on my ass & am now not able to walk very far once again. Yes, I know I couldn't walk that far to start with but I had worked up to shopping most of the Safeway, then a sit down with a coffee & sandwich, before going through the check out. I was quite comfortable with it. Went to Safeway this last month & just about collapsed trying to shop the essentials. The Starbucks gal got me a chair to sit on before I fell down.  .  .  .  I had to leave most of my groceries in the car until Mike, my clean-up guy, got off work to carry then in!!. I now do most of my shopping in small amounts at the Chinese shop where I can park next to the elevator underground, shop in a smaller store where I know everyone & buy two bags of essentials at a
time. My boy Dwayne will bring me cat food & heavy stuff like canned goods. And Mike brings fruit stand goodies for me like he does for his mom a block away!  This may be my new reality  .  .  .  .  At least I still have the drive thrus!!!

Two bins down & most of the house & garage are cleaned out. Oh, there's still cobwebs in the corners & dust on all the shelving but all the old heaters, clothing, furniture, appliances, tools, paper, bike parts etc are gone. Most of the dust is also gone although I've had real health problems this past two months with all the dust flying around. I cough too much. Wheeze too much. Itch & scratch too much. And don't have enough energy to wash my dishes.

But I have a new LaZboy. In Leather. Woohoo

  

Mike is a little OCD & put up bars, a curtain, found a bath chair & scrubbed the whole bathroom down for me. Then he eyeballed the kitchen, He picked up my new Ikea movable island so I can put my large Slow-cooker, convection oven & blender on top & pots below for easy access. He wants to make the kitchen more accessible by getting rid of all of the old dusty cupboards & giving me open shelving - lovely idea but not in Bridgview!! He says I need better housing but until then, he's determined to make what I've got - better. I am so lucky he's made me his project. 

He sold all the motorcycle parts, found someone to take the gas & ebikes & has some deal going somewhere with the Bug parts too. I love him for all his energy & thoughtfulness - he found the THREE biggest field tomatoes for me, one slice of tomato almost covered the whole slice of bread!! He's waaaay too young to get hitched but did say I could adopt him if I wanted.

Knitting content - Are you kidding????