SunShrink of Flourish
Sep. 19th, 2022 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ismoFeeling cranky, itchy, and demotivated. Hence the lack of posting . . . also I just get tired at night and lose my posting mojo. We've had beautiful, weirdly summery weather for the last few days. The sun is hot, the sky blithely blue, and yet the angle of light has that fragile equinoctial quality. It's like a celebration of something we're going to lose our grasp on any minute. Kind of like the Queen's funeral, which I quite enjoyed watching when I woke up too early this morning. The Sparrowhawk has assured me that if I happen to predecease him, he'll make my funeral as much like that as possible. Haha, suuuure . . . . Well, he won't be able to place my crown on the altar, and I think he'll have some trouble getting the Garter King of Arms to announce my titles. I'd love to have some black Canadian horses, some archers in green uniforms with eagle feathers in their hats, and my own bagpiper to play a lament.
I gave my sister Queenie as a blog name because, many years ago when the Former Naval Person was just a babe, they had a toy figure of Queen Elizabeth in her Trooping the Colors outfit, on her horse. The FNP loved to play with this and lovingly referred to it as "Keenie," or "Queenie" when she got a bit older. My sister was quite the equestrian in her earlier life, and it just seemed appropriate to her panache to call her Queenie. I had a long conversation with her this morning. She was about to have a CAT scan of her lungs, to make sure she doesn't have blood clots there. Then she has to schedule a colonoscopy and an endoscopy, followed by some pretty strenuous surgery in the big downtown hospital. All of this is extremely scary to her, and I have to say it is to me too.
While I was on the phone with her, the Sparrowhawk took the car to the service garage. He returned in time to greet the plumbers, who installed a new sink faucet and garbage disposal. The garage said they need to replace the water pump and the radiator hose. The coolant has been dripping onto the serpentine belt, so it's best to replace that too. While we haven't had any trouble with the thermostat so far, they pointed out that there's 90,000 miles on the car, and if the thermostat goes out later and they have to open the car up again, it will cost a lot more, so perhaps best to replace it now while they're deep in the guts of the machine. However, they have not said when it will be done. Obviously, not today.
Still no refrigerator, and with no car, we ordered pizza and salad delivered for dinner. There's a thermal bag of things from the refrigerator on the family room floor, and we had to take everything out from under the sink, so there's a box of sink things sitting there too. It's feeling rather ad hoc around here lately.
I gave my sister Queenie as a blog name because, many years ago when the Former Naval Person was just a babe, they had a toy figure of Queen Elizabeth in her Trooping the Colors outfit, on her horse. The FNP loved to play with this and lovingly referred to it as "Keenie," or "Queenie" when she got a bit older. My sister was quite the equestrian in her earlier life, and it just seemed appropriate to her panache to call her Queenie. I had a long conversation with her this morning. She was about to have a CAT scan of her lungs, to make sure she doesn't have blood clots there. Then she has to schedule a colonoscopy and an endoscopy, followed by some pretty strenuous surgery in the big downtown hospital. All of this is extremely scary to her, and I have to say it is to me too.
While I was on the phone with her, the Sparrowhawk took the car to the service garage. He returned in time to greet the plumbers, who installed a new sink faucet and garbage disposal. The garage said they need to replace the water pump and the radiator hose. The coolant has been dripping onto the serpentine belt, so it's best to replace that too. While we haven't had any trouble with the thermostat so far, they pointed out that there's 90,000 miles on the car, and if the thermostat goes out later and they have to open the car up again, it will cost a lot more, so perhaps best to replace it now while they're deep in the guts of the machine. However, they have not said when it will be done. Obviously, not today.
Still no refrigerator, and with no car, we ordered pizza and salad delivered for dinner. There's a thermal bag of things from the refrigerator on the family room floor, and we had to take everything out from under the sink, so there's a box of sink things sitting there too. It's feeling rather ad hoc around here lately.
