It's Here!

Autumn has arrived, on the gibbous side of the harvest moon. We have glorious wind (only glorious because we've been hot and stalled for week upon week) and, overnight, heavy clouds. The air is fresh and even chilly.

There are many dull and boring concerns weighing on me right now - federal jury duty, setting up television service for my Mom (incredibly mysterious to me as I've not watched television in years & have no understanding of modern equipment), trying to coax a recalcitrant dumpster into our lives (two delivery dates missed), having dental work done, meeting with tax and financial planners and needing to set up wills and powers of attorney next. I am pretty sure I'll need to enter a year's worth of financial transactions into accounting software too, and had best set aside some time for that.

On the emotional front I'm dealing with very troublesome "friends" who poke fun at my desire to run a smoothly organized household (implying that I am losing my creative energies to these piddling projects; because these comments make me angry I suppose there is some truth to them). 

My father developed Alzheimer's disease when he was 70. It did not come on him full blown, of course; the symptoms were there long before. He had been living his RV dream at the time,and for at least a decade prior to the Alzheimer's diagnosis, his letters to me had degenerated into a recitation of itineraries. Therefore I am hypervigilant about becoming lost in routine or commonplace activities.

And I am grateful that my husband and mother show no signs of that terrible disease.