Yesterday was warm with a high of 26.7C. Add the humidity and it felt like 30C. Last night they posted we are under a heat warning. It is suppose to get to 33C with a humidex of 39C today. We can see these kinds of temperatures until Monday. It will be warm at night also.
Lifestyle
Yesterday was another rough day. The Spousal Unit was on the fight except when respite was here. He was exhausted and fighting everything including a nap. He rolled his eyes at lunch but ate it. He continued to be unkind to me all day which makes it hard for me to be kind to him. He doesn't know the difference and will say I started it or I won't do something or another.
Last night he was so tired that he bent over in the kitchen and said so. I started over to help him fearing I'd have to call 911 with him collapsing on me. He took 2 big breaths, stood up and off he went. He was in and out of the house with me monitoring him constantly. On his last trip out, he walked the garden lovingly touching the plants. I sat on the deck monitoring him in the cool evening breeze. When he saw me he asked what I was doing. I told him I was enjoying the cool breeze. He joined me and I talked to him quietly. We went inside and let him talk about the garden. He stopped and dozed off in his chair. Time - 8:30 pm.
Medications were delivered while I was watering the garden. The driver located us as he could hear the Spousal Unit yelling at me about not watering enough. He gets the new medication after breakfast.
I spent an hour on the phone talking the the challenging behaviors specialist. We are doing the best we can and she gave me a few strategies. When you can't talk to him, let him rage and when you can, validate what he is saying and let him talk. She talked about the garden. She feels that because he has taken on the gardening since we retired 12 years ago, he is realizing he can't do it now and is angry about that. He realizes something is wrong with him and he doesn't know what it is or refuses to accept what is wrong. The only thing he knows and can control is to tell us what to do whether it is right or wrong. It makes sense to me why the garden has been a target since April.
I also talked to respite and have will have respite 4 times a week starting next week. This is more for me to have a rest day. I also talked to the coordinator to see if we can have more consistency in who comes. It is far easier on all of us.
The garden is in production mode. We will have to pick beans in the next couple of days. The peas are loaded and will be filled out later next week. Tomatoes are growing as are the peppers. I even found a cucumber yesterday while watering. One thing I have decided is to grow a garden when alone. I enjoy the garden and want to have fresh vegetables to eat. I hope to have enough to share with family and friends. I will get over this year. The Spousal Unit has taught me a lot about growing vegetables.
Sewing
I did get to cut out daughter's quilt during respite even if I did have the important phone calls.
I'm not happy about the width of the fabric. Including the selvage, it is 21" wide for a fat quarter. I needed it to be an extra 1" wider. Now I have to trim some of the pieces to get rid of the white selvage. I will do that once I get the correct layout.
The cutting out is easy once you get started. Each fat quarter yields 5 pieces which makes one column. The 9 pieces make the 9 columns. The hard part will be getting a pleasing layout.
All the pieces have been clipped together according to size. When I lay them out, I will put them into their color family for easier handling.
The top dark fabric needs to have the 2 longest pieces on the outside edges so they are close to the dark inner border. The next darkest one will have handled carefully as the remaining fabrics range from mid to light pink tones. Some of the fabrics do have the grey in them. Once laid out I will decide which lengths need to be trimmed to get rid of the selvage. Then onto sewing the columns. I am thinking of doing a blue one for the Spousal Unit to have when he goes to long term care.
I had a bit of time on Pinterest and this came up in my feed.
I was excited and over a few hours found what I wanted pattern wise for a doll's outfit. The top will be this one.
The skirt will be the pattern I designed for a tiered skirt I made in 2019. I will make bow tie sandals to go with this outfit. I am hoping to find fabrics in the stash to make it later this fall. It might be out of chambray fabrics but it remains to be seen.
Today
The Spousal Unit is asleep at the table. He is exhausted from so many things happening in his world. He had a fit with his belt as he took the buckle off it trying to do it up. We have continuing care in this morning as I need to do the financial part of the paper work for Long Term Care. We have to be in New Minas to get the oil changed in the car and will have lunch up there. What may or may not happen is getting him a new hat from the John Deere dealers. I may get it next week when I go up to do a bit of shopping. I'm hoping the anti-depressant gives him a bit of relief today. Neither one of us will be able to cope with the heat if he is in and out of the house.
Until the next time..........................................................
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