I don't know about you, but I feel like I'm ready for a weekend. It's been a packed set of days -- so much so that I haven't danced my ballet dances for three days! And the weeds? Not a lot of progress there since The Attack of the Virginia Stickseed.
This morning, too, is busy. Animal care first (and yes, we do miss Peach, which is strange since she was just a chicken, a meek one, rarely venturing out of the barn in her advanced age).
(Hey, lilies, you do know that this is the very last day of summer?)
(the crab apple in early fall is just as beautiful as it is in early spring...)
Immediately after, we bike to the pharmacy to get our Covid vaccinations. It's a lovely ride...
...but getting the shots was not easy. Pharmacies are struggling to meet the initial demand. The supplies are very low. We almost got sent home with only the super duper senior flu shots to show for it, but at the last minute there was a miracle and boom! We are Covid vaccinated.
Each and every time that we have gotten the vaccine or booster, I'm overwhelmed with relief. How can one not be, especially since rates of infection, hospitalization, etc are going up. You gotta love science for all that it does to make our lives better! (And you gotta not love the way our health care delivery works: not for us the simplicity of health care for all, where you never see a bill, never get told, as Ed got told that the paper work, draconian and never ending for the poor pharmacists, is stalled, so that he has to pay for both the Covid and flu shots out of pocket until it is processed through the "system.")
Breakfast -- small, because it's so close to lunch that it hardly deserves its own special moment. With a cat who loves to join us ON the table, and Ed, who luckily is not up there with him.
A quick job of spot weeding and now it's time to pick up the kids.
Typically, Friday afternoon starts a period of lessons for them: he gets violin and she gets ballet. They then roll into Saturday morning where she gets violin and he gets ballet (and Sandpiper gets multisports, which he adores) and then she gets Code Ninjas (a coding class which she loves). This, of course requires juggling and when one peg falters, the structure falls down. Today, the violin teacher called in sick so I had to take Sparrow along for the ride to ballet. After that, one parent did this, another did that and eventually I believe they all wound up in whatever place they needed to be. Which is a good thing because the parents are celebrating their anniversary tonight and a sitter is keeping they young ones occupied. The parents surely need their moment of evening pleasure!
Me, I make my way home. I snuck in my own ballet in the early afternoon and I surely clocked in a solid bike ride today. I'm ready to put my feet up and watch a movie with Ed. Know any lighthearted ones where not too many people get killed or have their lives ruined by unsuccessful relationships? No? I guess we'll just watch farmer Pete on YouTube, minding his cattle and pigs and turkeys. Very low key. Just what I need!
