Walk: 1 - 5: Back and Forth between Places, Up and Down
Distance: 1. 5.4 miles 2. 2.4 miles 3. 2 miles 4. 2 miles 5. 2 miles
Walk: 1. Up and Down, Up and Down, Repeat 2. Same
Distance: 1. 4.7 miles 2. 2 miles
Today Ciwt was suddenly spent from packing up closets filled with objects of numerous types, sizes, shapes, weight - not to mention personal history. It's tricky and takes creativity and concentration getting all those things and memories organized and into to some containable and portable form. Also stamina to go up and down the many stairs in her soon to be former place.
So for the first time in a little over 40 years, she just sat alone in her almost empty new home.
At some point in her trips back and forth she'd brought a padded stadiuim seat. She had also brought a book to hold down the paper cut outs of her coming furniture. Turned out the book was about Matisse. The simple seat was comfortable. Her new place was quiet. The sun was pouring in her large filtered glass sliding doors. And with no planning at all, Ciwt was surrounded with her most treasured life elements - Sun, Light, Home, a Book, Matisse, Stillness, Solitude - and nothing to do but just savor them for a few precious hours.
Walk: You Know Where and Hood Errands
Distance: 4.5 miles
So Ciwt's cats were "Thanks, but no thanks" about their first visit to what will be their new home in a month. Of course, she didn't tell them that as they hid in their carriers.....
Walk: 1. SF Ballet, 2. usual T. Joe's and new place 3. Back and Forth goes Ciwt 4. Loading boxes
Distance: 1. 2.6 miles lope, 3.1 walk= 5.7 2. 4 miles 3. 5 miles 4. 2.2 miles
Ciwt stopped for moment in her 8-hour packing/moving/unpacking days to take heart from this Trader Joe's card. (They have some good ones at a great price!)
Walk: New Place 9of course0 and Trader Joe's
Distance: 4.4 miles
So here's the loaner car the dealer gave Ciwt while hers was going through a recall service. When given to her it had 20 miles on it, and they were very clear that it had just come in and Ciwt would be the first driver. They were also very clear that if there was even as much as a smudge on a tire when Ciwt returned it, she would be responsible for a $250+ damage charge.
Ciwt drove it to her garage very carefully. It is now sitting there where it will stay until her car is ready and she can drive the loaner back to the dealer very, very carefully.
Walk: 1, Haircut, Doc Annual, Booster #2 2. No, Rain & Taxes
Distance: 1. 3 miles 2. 2. 1 mile, yoga
So, this week a couple of Ciwt's friends, including her realtor, called to say they had Covid. She hadn't seen any of them for quite a while, but, to be on the safe side Ciwt gave herself a home test.
Well it went straight to a definite, dark line at "C." Covid!!! She was devastated. To be absolutely sure she grabbed the test tray with the definite "C" and went to a nearby free testing clinic.
When she got there and one of the doctors asked why she had come, Ciwt took out the "C" tray and showed it to her. "Oh," she said, "Control." Turns out that's what "C" is for - Control, not Covid. And you have to have two! lines showing, not just the definite "C" one.
Ciwt was embarrassed, they were nice, tested her again since she was there. And 15 minutes later Ciwt left with an official "Negative" result. The next day she went to get her second booster shot.
Walk: 1. ? 2. The usual, back and forth between places
Distance: 1. 2.8 miles 2. 5 miles
Walk: No
Distance: Not far (but finally did that laundry)
No good for weeding out stuff today...
