Good evening, how is everyone? I myself am exhausted---suddenly it seems everyone has decided the pandemic is over and I am having unexpected, not really invited guests who wish to enjoy the end-of-summer beach. Not unwanted, just unanticipated? After many months of quietude, having one's space invaded, however well meant, is, I find, stressful and tiring and oddly uncomfortable..
There's a new thing that experts are calling ''caution fatigue", not fatigue as in tired, but fatigue like worn out and giving up. Apparently folks think, ok we stayed home, we social distanced, enough already. And they do not wear masks or use the hand sanitizer I so prominently display.
I didn't get much done the past few days. Mo seems to be healing well but he had a huge panic attack Saturday when I was briefly out in the early evening. He was frantic, and his claws tore my hand badly as I tried to protect my vulnerable legs in shorts. He hasn't done this since he was a baby, it came as a shock. My hand is healing but it hurt a lot and still hurts.
Yesterday he did better, as I was out at my normal time and gave him a calming treat before I left. The visit to the doctor, the blood pressure guy, was fraught. No parking so I had to beg a ride from a friend. Then the waiting room was quite busy, no such thing as six feet apart. The doctor and staff wore masks but no gloves, no smocks, just usual khakis and golf shirt or nurse-y scrubs. I had to repeatedly ask if things were sanitized. Apparently medical people have caution fatigue too.
So boo hoo, nevermind. Quiet has returned this evening. It is oddly chilly, low 70s. Harbinger of far off Fall?
Today's photos are indoor shots, as I am practicing for Instagram and also for a blog post elsewhere where we'll be asked to show our favorite home vignette. Don't worry that you'll be bored on IG if you look at my space there; IG doesn't allow access to desktop photos, where I always carefully edit each and every photo I share here, so those used should appear somewhat different.
Enjoy....
Off topic I must show you this quilt made by Audrey at Quilty Folks. Blogger of Dotty 365 fame. Check out this link....HERE
I MUST have a pink and cheddar project like hers. I don't know when but it just sings to me, a siren song.
love
lizzy
gone to the beach....
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