Tropical Fauna

  Today went pretty well although I might have overdone it a little yesterday-- the headache tried to come back. I tried to be better today. I had hoped to do three things that didn't require big eye focus commitments in addition to all the screen time I could stand to answer emails and stuff. They were: clean out a small desk no one has done anything with in decades. A load of laundry. Make celery soup.

I managed the emails, I got the desk about half sorted and the laundry washed but not dried. I thawed the soup stock. There's always tomorrow. After I worked a little while I got shakey. Well, I just have to accept that. My eye did let me read a bit during the down times. I've listened to a lot of podcasts and things like that, but since audio is my weakest input channel, I'm getting really tired of it.

Anyway, sorting the desk included finding two clay birds that Omer's mother had brought us as gifts from Mexico. In the same place, I also found the conch shell that my grandmother had brought home from one of her trips.

Meanwhile, a couple of years ago, I had found a set of frog ashtrays that were my mother's. They have just been sitting out ever since, because I didn't want to lose track of them. I think they are humorous.

Now we have to switch and talk about what I did just under a year ago when I came home from my Jauary trip and found my bedroom a total mouse mess. I cleaned and redecorated. I still love it! You need the reminder that the curtains are a tropical print. You can see a link below with more pictures if you want. But the point is that I have that bright tropical fabric. I have four metal frog hooks on the walls (you can see two of them in this pic and a slice of the curtain.



So today I added the conch (Bottom shelf), and one bird and frog above that.

A couple of shelves up are the other bird and frog. Incidentally, the shelf is a walnut plate display rack my mother had custom made (to go with the walnut dining table and bureau). I've tried to sell it, but no takers, so I just put it in a narrow space beside the big window.

I still want to make the soup. I'm eating almost normally, but not up to sandwiches yet, so another batch of soup will be good. I got some from the store, but even the low-sodium ones are way too salty.

Thanks so much for all the encouragement!

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