Monday, October 3, 2022

I’m having trouble motivating myself. I came back from Texada determined to get the yard cleaned up, some housecleaning done and a few projects completed prior to my surgery. I’ve managed to do some yard work but I can’t seem to motivate myself to do anything else.

I finished clearing the driveway this morning. It took longer than I thought it would so I didn’t have time to do any work on the stone wall. I really wanted to get up on the ledge and clear away some bindweed that has come through the fence from the neighbour’s yard but I heard my family saying “Don’t do it”, so I didn’t.

As a result of a short chat with a Yellowknife friend (who was also recently diagnosed with breast cancer) I did a few exercises to increase my upper body strength. Pat has always been very fit but if she’s suggesting it I felt I should get started right away. I found five exercises that don’t seem too hard but that supposedly do the trick so I’ll continue with them on a daily basis until my surgery date. I have a booklet that shows me a number of exercises to do post-surgery and Kathryn assures me we WILL be doing them.

I’ve puttered a bit since lunch – I picked up and put away some fabric off the cutting table, I cleared out a Cranberry Hall paper file, and I took care of a couple of technical tasks for the Hall. For the rest of the afternoon I’ll work on my Botanical Garden – not something that I had on my list as needing done but it puts in the time.