This and That, Past stuff and a cat

Today, while other stuff was going on (major furnace stuff) I did some tidying and got some stuff done. If I could do that much every day it would be productive. After a few days of below freezing temps, it was 30F and above and felt positively balmy. Which is good when your furnace isn’t doing much. Several times today, I took a break by just sitting on the steps. I was plenty warm enough (thank you Merino) and the sun was bright. Alas there was no seed for the birdies. That had been on my to-do list today but…

When it was all done for the day, I put together a little food and a glass of wine and sat down to watch All Creatures Great and Small. The focus right now seems to be on character development – what in the past made these people who they are today. It was a bit heavy on the feels but it was good to end the day with.

Tomorrow is Monday already and it was a good thing I had gotten a few days ahead of the World Peace Poetry Postcards list because today there was no writing. Maybe I’ll figure out something after this. I had my first card and it wasn’t anything I could play off so I guess it may be time to look through my stash.

While I was watching All Creatures, I was in the room where briefly I did work from home. I found a few odd receipts from holiday presents and other scraps and put them into the trash. Then I found this, and when I opened it up, it was from my training to do that online sales support stuff, notes of changes along the way, the normal retail management stuff and then on to “My Last Working Day at Apple”. Probably about two-thirds of the notebook is used. There were a few pages of fountain pen testing and writing and one not-so-bad ink sketch of a sleeping cat. I mean, one of my co-workers.

Then I got ready to get into bed and was soon joined by Harry. They both seemed to have forgiven me for throwing them into carriers and putting them in the car for a little while today, when I didn’t really know what was going to happen. Mainly I was worried about them getting out somehow, or getting into somewhere where I couldn’t find them. But now they’re both curled up alongside me and we’ll be all right until morning.