triumphgal

I slept and every time my eyes opened I would say ‘no’ and fall asleep again until I finally felt like I had had enough sleep to survive the day. I got up and started to organize things and headed upstairs where Rosie made me a delicious poached egg breakfast which I always think of her and perfect poached eggs. I spent time talking to uncle Brian about being apologetic for not remembering his heart surgery off the top of my head. Things like that scare me as I know that I must have known but if someone asked me did your uncle have a quadruple bypass I would say no. I can’t even truly begin to explain how amazing it was staying with these three people as they have known me since I was two and a half years old. They are my stepmother‘s family but in so many ways they have just been my core family growing up and as an adult I choose them as my people. It was so great to finally spend time with them in their new home I can’t even believe it’s this long since I saw them last. It seems impossible that there’s anything that I don’t know about them or they about me. I packed up all my stuff and took a few pictures, took a salmonberry plant with me and said goodbye. Not far away from their place is a kind of farmers market garden place and I saw that they had plants in the garden center on sale so I pulled in and spent a bit of time there picking out a whole bunch of plants for my place all 20% off and even if that did just bring them to regular price I’m happy to support a small market business. The drive felt long but I listened to Talking with Strangers and it’s incredibly interesting and well done in the way it ties together so many events in the world over so many different periods. It engages my brain, my curiosity, my need to think. I still have about 40 minutes left once I got home and will listen to it because it will wrap it all up. I pretty much just drove and listened to that. I stopped in Golden for my cotton candy ice cream and a coffee because I was feeling sleepy and continued on. After a while in the distance I saw something on the side the road and it looked like a cub sized bear so I pulled over and took a picture and then as I swung my phone to follow it I realized there were three cubs in the tree that I could see and they are small, like not even a foot and a half size so that must have been the mama. They were super cute and I managed to take some pictures and a video and just enjoy the moment. I have never seen little tiny bear cubs in the world and I’m glad that I was able to pull over safely and let all the traffic go by and they have no idea what they missed and then not a lot further down the road near radium was mountain sheep or goats. I don’t know, animals with horns walking across the road so I did manage to take a quick picture and break the hands-free rule and then head on home. the closer I got the happier I was and also the Satisfaction because it really was wonderful to be surrounded with all the love I had the last couple days but wouldn’t you know I had barely pulled in and was messaging people to say that I was safely home when Diane texted me to get together for dinner. As it was nearly 9 o’clock by the time we were making a plan we just got her stepson to go pick us up A&W and we played four handed crib for a few hours and it was lovely. it was just more family time and I appreciate it a lot and now I’m home and in my own bed with no alarm and black out curtains and my love tank is full even though it was so severely drained at the beginning of the week and I am grateful for all that I am and all that I have including you dear readers xoxo

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