Over at Avdi’s yesterday, things were bustling.  Avdi gave his whole office an enema [major cleaning and reorg.] with his electro-industrial music blasting.  Stacey was continually shuttling kids back and forth.  Y had friends over.  I schlepped a shit-ton of smelly S clothes upstairs and to Stacey’s vehicle.  I cleaned and did loads of laundry, and sweated in the AC.  At one point I dunked the top half of me in the newly-disinfected pool, I was so hot.  I think I bleached my insides.

Mostly I did stuff on my laptop, notably: I finally got caught up on my photo-deleting project to late 2022, when I left Ohio for good with Avdi and Jess and a moving truck.  That’s a big milestone for me, because not only did it free up a lot of space in storage, but it freed me up from some virtual baggage from that period of my life.  What I mostly kept were photos of Misu, Avdi and family, natural preserves and parks, native and other flowers and plants, and minimal scenes at home(s) and local haunts.

The only nostalgia that got to me was missing Misu, our cat, and realizing how much better my garden skills apparently used to be!  I watched my photographic quality go from awful to much better than now, but that latter is just a faulty phone issue.  I do miss the natural parks in Ohio, which were incredibly magnificent.  Mostly I felt relief to be “rescued”!

And inspired to do better with the gardening!  If and when it ever gets cooler!!  It’s still like a stifling sweat bath , with hints of rain, but supposed to get more “normal” summery tomorrow.  I need to plant more greens, salad, and cooler-weather herbs again for fall.  The whole yard needs a major makeover.  Don’t hold me to anything I may have sworn to do before this!  Nature itself dictates (also hungry mouths), and I obey.  That’s always the best way.  I still refuse to use pesticides, though.

Here are some of my last glimpses of Ohio, and some from now.