Just four weeks from now we hope to all be together in our new home. I'm counting the days, literally, in my hard copy journal. I miss Robert so terribly. And Robert and the dog miss each other terribly. And the cats will hate moving, as cats always hate change in their environments.

Had a singularly unproductive day today. No caffeine, no accomplishments. In fact, I slept pretty much until suppertime. Now of course I'm wide awake and coasting along on half-caf. I intend to finish the office files tonight, and call the commercial shredding company in the morning. A big THANK YOU to thestephymore for suggesting that I contact them. I hadn't even known we had such a thing in this one-Starbucks town.

Gardening yesterday, fed all the front roses, deadheaded geraniums, soaked the sword fern, cut down spent iris scapes, and enjoyed the afternoon. The climbing roses in the back, especially Cecile Brunner, are blooming like crazy. Cecile has climbed right over the fence into the next door neighbor's yard.

Did I mention that I passed my stress echocardiogram on Thursday morning? My heart looks great, absolutely no signs of pulmonary arterial hypertension. Since PAH is a nasty risk for scleroderma folk, I get tested every year. I feel super-grateful for another negative test. And I even was able to get my heart rate into the 160's on the treadmill, which ain't bad.

Friday the dog and I and a friend walked for an hour on the newest paved bicycle trail, hot sun, gorgeous day. Worked up a sweat, which felt great. The dog behaved very well. We grossed my friend out by drinking from the same water bottle (giggle).