I am obviously better now because my morning tea tastes good — not like some bitter brew that you would only take as medicine. And yesterday for lunch I had a big plate of pasta with just a small amount of tomato sauce on it. It was delicious and fortifying. Then I went out for a walk with Tasha in the afternoon — not a long walk, but still a walk. I hadn't been out of the house since last Wednesday, the day before "the onset." Later, I slept through the night with no emergency trips to the WC.
The new dresser has 6 small and 3 larger drawers. The chest of drawers against the wall behind
it is one that we've had since 1983, back when we lived and worked in Washington DC.
Walt mentioned yesterday that the screws we ordered for the new commode — to replace the ones that were too short — were delivered on Saturday afternoon. He immediately tried them and they worked perfectly. We had been afraid we might have to send the whole thing back to the furniture company we got it from, and that would have been a big hassle. So he spent much of Sunday morning continuing the job of putting the chest of drawers together, and he plans to finish it this morning. While he put the pieces together and attached the hardware, I cleaned off the table that occupies the space where the new dresser will go, and then I cleared a different space for the table that needs to be moved. I was exhausted, but it felt good to actually be accomplishing something. I even did some vacuuming.
It has taken more than 100 screws and quite a few nails to put the dresser together
and attach all of the rails that the drawers will slide on.
A week ago I talked to our friend Sue in California — she's coming to visit for a week next September and we were working out details. She laughed when I told her that in sorting through clothes I hadn't worn in years, trying to get rid of them, had realized I needed to buy a new piece of furniture to keep them in so that I could get to them more easily and would be encouraged to wear them again. She pointed out that the goal was to trim down and donate extra things to Emmaüs (our Good Will equivalent), not to acquire more possessions. I know she's right, but now it's a done deal.
Wonderful to hear that your good health is returning! And that projects are moving forward! Good news!
ReplyDeleteWooo hoooo! Morning tea, real food, walks... and a new dresser almost ready :) All good.
ReplyDeleteI did that same thing - aiming to clear out but in stead acquired more shelving! Oh well, it is for books I haven't yet read so I feel justified.
ReplyDeleteSo glad to hear that you're better. Our GI systems take time to heal after problems like you've had. The dresser requires a lot of work! Lewis put a sewing machine cabinet together for me last year that came in a rather small heavy box. It required lots of labor to assemble. Now you can get some use out of those old shirts.
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing you may have seen this article. Sharing it anyway in case you haven't. "Brittany oyster farms hit by gastroenteritis epidemic"...blaming the problem on norovirus:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/06/brittany-oyster-farms-gastroenteritis-epidemic-sewage
Another reader posted that link too, on yesterday's post. I tried to make your link live, but it didn't work. Trying again.
DeleteOh, and I meant to mention that the oyster that made me ill were definitely from Brittany, from a town called la Bernerie-en-Retz. It's just south of the mouth of the Loire.
DeleteYay you. Tea and Tasha sounds like a healing combination.
ReplyDeleteSo glad to hear you are feeling better and that you were comfortable enough to take Tasha for her and your walk! I guess those prices at IKEA and other similar stores aren't so cheap anyway, when one considers all the labor time necessary to put those pieces together! I remember a time when the screws were missing; we returned the box and took another one instead. All the pieces were there!
ReplyDeleteMary in Oregon
Well, there are no furniture stores in the Saint-Aignan area. There are some in the Tours metro area, of course. But they're an hour or more away, so if you make the two-hour+ drive round-trip and don't find what you are looking for, you've wasted a lot of time and a lot of fuel on the shopping and driving, ending up empty-handed. Blois, where there are fewer stores, is a 90-minute drive, round-trip. And then you have to be able to fit the furniture in your car, or you have to rent a truck. Or pay delivery charges. Anyway, we are independently (slightly) well-off, but careful, so we do things the way we do them. Our time is valuable to us, but not in terms of some kind of monetary value.
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