Pretty Boring title, eh? But apt for this month of February. Only two major things happened this month. A record breaking flood of our little stream along with lots of others in all of Western Washington. And Maggie was spayed. Which was traumatic for all of us.
As I reported last month, we got a lot of rain in January. And the 31st put us over. The stream flooded cutting new channels and spreading into a huge area. The culvert onto Zylstra property buckled. Don’t know how that will affect us in the long run.
Maggie did not adapt well to the “cone of shame”. We stayed up with her for two nights and took turns watching over her for several days. Finally, we borrowed a onesie for her to wear and she was much better off. But we still had to leash walk her for another week. All is well now.
Roger and I have joined the Transition Movement that is starting up on this island. Lopez got there first with their mission “Fossil Free by ’33”. I’ve joined a Recycle, Reduce, Reuse group and Roger is in the Ag group. If you don’t know about the Transition Movement here is a quote from one of the start-up team members:
“The rapidly unfolding climate emergency necessitates greater local action by our community and the county. We know that our electrical power, food and material deliveries and summer tourism dominated economy is fragile with regard to serious disruptions that lie ahead of us.
The global movement called Transition gives us both a large network of other communities around the world who seek greater self-determination and a grass-roots, participatory, informal way to take purposeful action locally on the issues of greatest importance today and in the uncertain future”
The rest of the month was mostly reading, watching Netflix, and crocheting a new hat while watching Maggie convalesce. Taking walks in between storms and taking quite a few naps. Sounds like a pretty good retirement.
Also of note, Roger and I are in two different book clubs and we each hosted our respective clubs this month. His is ABC– Apocalypse Book Club. So you can see that this uncertain future is weighing heavily on us. No surprise, we’ve spent a lot of time listening to Presidential debates and caucus results.
Spring is just one month away. The signs are everywhere. Also, the sawmill is up and running, boards have been made and placed in the cottage bathroom project. So–progress!
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