Gee, it has been almost three weeks since I posted here. Hope my hundreds (yeah, right) of followers were not checking the obits!
Summer is over....sigh....and my babies have made their last visit of the season. I enjoyed every moment they were here. I cannot see enough of them. They are, without a doubt, my best medicine.
I am still at the beach, for another few weeks, and have been working hard every day doing cleanup/cleanout/catch-up/housekeeping projects. A lot of boring and tiring jobs, to be sure everything is in order....it's my "control freak" persona. I know that the reason I am doing these chores is because I am afraid I will never be back here - or feeling well enough to do much of anything.
After Hurricane Sandy last fall, I am concerned, like everyone else in South Bethany, about our ground-level areas, which were under 14 inches of water. So I have been working in our storage area, putting everything up above that level. Lots of stuff hanging from hooks on the walls or perched atop other things.
Another cleanout project is iPhoto...I have over 2400 photos and videos on my computer, many of which are precious to me. So I am weeding them out, slowly but surely. There were 3500 photos when I started, so I am making progress! This is what I do at night when I am totally exhusted from working so hard all day....and I watch the new shows on TV...thank goodness the fall season has started!
Speaking of TV, I absolutely LOVED The Blacklist with James Spader. What a great new show! And he is perfect for the part.
I am going to PA next week for three days. While there I will see my dear friend Grace, who lives in France and is visiting her daughter in Wilmington. And I will probably be buying a new car.....same as the one I have now, which is 6 years old. I have put off even thinking about a new car because I wonder if I will be around long enough to make it worthwhile. Same with a new computer.....It is so hard not to think like this, about anything that is long term. I cannot think about making plans or getting my hopes up, because I do not want these hopes to be dashed if I am not well enough to carry out my plans. As my friend Lisa said, being alive is not always enough. So I get through my days by just trying to take everything in, every day, because the future is so uncertain.
Charlie thought this was a pirate ship.....he loves pirates

Here's our curly girl
