Closer to a working bathroom, all the blossoming, creeping up on a flare-up?

It's been a week.  It started out with the first of the perfect deck drowsing days and ended with the fall of the white blossoms.  In between, there was a grindingly hard week at work when everything at work needed me at once, and I had to be onsite more than is healthy for me, and the bathroom construction fried my nervous system.  Also more blossoms.

 

#HammockTime  #OkomeHouse  #TryingToEatMoreNon-MeatProteins  #AlsoTryingToEatMoreVeggies

#PostOkomeHouseWalk  #OfCourseIGotLost  #ISeeTheMoon

#MondayWalk  #MyTreeIsGettingCloseToFullBloom

I don't know what's going on here, but it's been cracking me up.  I get several emails a day that seem to have been possessed by a snake.  I snort laugh every time.  What on earth . . . ?

Showerhead that I don't bump into!  Actual bathtub for human-sized humans!  A floor not made of 3 layers of ravenous and poorly applied peel and stick tiles that will cut or trip you!  

Today I learned that maybe my breathing problems were because there was no water in the broken toilet, so it may have been leaking toxic gasses into my unit.  Who knew?

#DestructionOfNervousSystemNotPictured  #ToiletStillDecorative  #AtLeastToiletHasWaterAgainToWardOffToxicGasses  #AlsoHadSmallGroupTimeToTalkAboutArt

#WednesdayWalk  #WhiteBlossomsAtPeakBloom  #SecondNightInARowOfSmallGroupThingsAndComingHomeWayPastWind-DownStartTime

Thursday was another full day onsite for work, starting very early for me.  At least I managed to get to the food truck early enough that I could get food and eat it between things!

#AAPIHeritageMonthFoodTrucksOfAwesome

This entire week since I turned off rest mode, my activity tracker has been not-so-subtly encouraging me to turn it back on. I resisted for reasons that don't really make sense to me.  I kept telling myself I was taking Friday off and would rest ALL DAY, and that would somehow fix everything.  Then I worked the first half of Friday and rested the second half, and my heart rate was just really all over the place as I did my impression of something boneless in a hammock.

#IAmLyingMotionlessOnTheHammock  #NappingOnAndOff  #NotSureWhatMore/LessICouldDo

I took a really slow, short walk, but because my autonomic nervous system is all jangly, it gave me credit for more exercise that I think I really got.  The clouds, though!  Oh, man.  

Nothing for it but some chicken soup on Saturday before pool PT.  And then some more blossom appreciation.

#There'sChickenBrothInThereIPromise

#TheWhiteBlossomsHavePassedTheirZenith  #TheyStillSmellLikeHeavenAsTheyGatherInPiles

#Mid-PinkBlossomsBeingAmazing

Enjoy the blossoms while they're having their day!  Everything smells amazing when I can smell, and the firework-like nature of these blooming trees lifts my heart.  Maybe too much, according to my activity tracker.  : D

Mars descending out of season

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Mars descending out of season

The moon tonight
absolutely impossible
like a science fiction special effect
slinking along the horizon

terrifying, enormous, glaring
like a one-eyed Mars
descending to hunt
on the earth himself

his single blood-gold eye
glimpsed in flashes as he runs
through the trees pacing me
too many trees in the way

I want to find a hill
cold be damned and stare
back at him drink in my fill
not blinking until he does

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Four seasons of home

Do you suppose you have to love all four seasons in another country before you can really say you want to make it your home?