A Perfectly Ordinary Day

5:00 AM Devin is awake. He starts to wake me gently, crawling over me, purring in my face. When I don't leap up to feed him, he becomes more agressive and starts to play with my feet and to leap about on the bed. I get up, grab my blanket and leave the bedroom - followed by Devin - and close the door so B. can continue to sleep.

5:20 AM Devin is fed. He was pretty hungry, ate almost an entire can of kitten food. Zoe considered getting up but just readjusted herself on her sleeping area on the couch. She's not ready for the day to begin. Neither am I. Rather than curl up on the couch like I usually do, I decide to go into the guest room and pull down the wall bed unit. This is something new to Devin so he eagerly follows me in there and leaps on the bed. I leave the hall light on in case he wants to run around out there and play. Then I turn off guest room light and curl up to sleep. Devin makes a great effort to get me up and playing with him but to no avail. Soon I am again sound asleep.

8:30 AM B. gets up, shuts off the hall light. It is now daylight and it looks like a sunny day. B. walks towards the guest room and finds me sleeping there with Zoe sleeping next to me and Devin sleeping at my feet. Devin did NOT go rattle the bedroom door as he sometimes does after his breakfast, but just settled down in the guest room.

9:00 AM Breakfast. Have a bath. Get dressed. Check my email and the latest news online. Check the blogs. Wrap a few packages for the post office (jigsaw puzzles for my aunt, a book for a niece, some toy snakes - one crocheted, one knitted- for a nephew).

11:30 AM It has turned into a beautiful day so B. and I head off to the library to return some books and to the post office to mail packages. We haven't gone far before we encounter our next door neighbors - and their next door neighboors. There is some discussion on what to do with our gravel road. Do we agree to have the city pave it? If so, we all will have to pay many, many thousands of dollars. Do we hire someone to come and just put gravel down? We review all the options. It is agreed that more information is needed and one of the neighbors agrees to make some further calls. B. and I head off to the library and drop off our books, to the post office to mail the packages, back to the library to pick up a couple of books, and then to the grocery store to get some milk.

2:00 PM Have lunch on the deck and read the day's paper. It's windy so I have to hold the paper down by putting my plate and glass on top of it. Both cats are out, frolicking in the sunshine. We linger for a while, enjoying the beautiful day. The yard men arrive and mow the lawn and do some trimming & edging. The yard looks great!! The new-mown grass smell is intoxicating. Time to head inside to read a little and then to have a nap.

5:30 PM B. and I head out for another walk. A couple of months ago, I purchased a stepmeter (similar to a pedometer but it counts steps rather than mileage). Though we've been working towards 10,000 steps per day, we usually are closer to 5,000 or 6,000 by day's end. Today, because of our walk to the post office, we find we are already around 8,400 steps so we decide to finish off the remaining 1600. We walk a little over 800 steps and then turn around and head back. Have made our 10,000! Time for supper. Today I haven't prepared anything but we have some leftover two-bean chili from the night before so we have that.

8:00 PM Settle down to watch a little tv - a travel show about walking in Ireland, Psych and then a mystery, Cold Case. Zoe climbs up on my lap, the favored position because I have a blanket over my lap and it makes for a comfortable snuggling place. Devin tries to climb up there too but Zoe gives him a slap and he decides B's lap is a better spot for him.

10:30 PM Time to head for bed, read a little, but first, I have a blog to write.

Sounds like a boring day, eh? Maybe so, but boring can be very comfortable. You can have a very nice day, even if not exciting, and that's fine with me!