Sometimes Joy Is Hard To find

 It's Monday. Laundry and house cleaning day. We took care of that this morning. I do the laundry, Tom does most of the housework. He's a very good guy.

Then early this afternoon he drove me to the dentist's office to get a root canal. Not fun, but done in less than an hour. Got home and got the laundry folded and ready to put away. 

Now I've had time to read blogs and plan a post of my own. Dinner will be delayed until the Novocain wears off and then we'll see. Probably omelets. 

The smoke is slowly clearing now but yesterday was very smoky. Hurricane/tropical storm Hilary in Mexico and California caused winds here to shift to the west from smoky eastern Washington, where wild fires are burning out of control. It occurred  to me that we really shouldn't be complaining as much as we locals have been about a few days of smoke, when we are not dealing with the actual wild fires burning up our homes or the hurricane floods washing them away. 

We have  flowers to pick. Joy!

Saturday I worked in the garden for a couple of hours, since the weather finally cooled down. I cleaned out this bed. Tom got the lawn mowed. 

Then I had to take it easy for the next day. That steroid injection I got a while back has had time to work and the verdict is that it didn't work very well. Sacroiliitis is still there. Then because I stressed it, my other hip, the more recent surgical hip, is mad at me too. Not bad, but irritated. 

The yard is looking more cleaned up now and Tom has been keeping it watered. The lawn is looking parched in places, but everything is alive. Our water bill proves his efforts. Yikes!

Yesterday we placed our annual tulip order with the bulb growers in Skagit Valley. We went for bright this year: red, yellow, and orange, and a few very fancy ones. They will arrive in October, time for planting, and then I'll wonder why I ordered so many. Planting is work. But blooming is the joy. 

The Seahawks played a preseason game here in Seattle on Saturday night. The stadium was packed and the Hawks gave the crowd their money's worth of entertainment, beating Dallas. 

Sunday evening the Sounders played Atlanta in the smoke, and got smoked. Winning is more fun. Tom and Jill were there. 

I watched on TV. I don't get around so much anymore. But I still "Canna" so some stuff. 

Lookin' for the JOY.