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Wed. Oct. 21, 2026: Home

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Waxing Moon

Neptune, Saturn, Chiron, Uranus, Venus Retrograde

Partly cloudy and cold

Not that my home looks like the above cottage, except metaphorically, but you get the idea.

Yesterday, I helped pack out and clean the residency apartment, and then went to get my car. I had to scrape frost off the windows.

Brought the car to the apartment, loaded up my stuff, and drove across the street to the studio. Even though the paint in the kiddie pool was dry, I decided to take that home first, just to be on the safe side. I tossed it into the car on top of the bags from the apartment and drove home.

I unloaded the pool and put it where I hope the cats won’t get into it. Later, I will put it back on the bed in the sewing room and put a drop cloth inside it, and then a blanket on top. I unloaded the stuff from the apartment, and put away anything that needed to be refrigerated.

None of the cats was speaking to me. I got four little “talk to the tail” attitudes.

Drove back to the studio, hoping to get some work done. Said some goodbyes. Packed the rest of my stuff. Realized that mentally, I had already left, and it wasn’t doing anyone any good if I stayed.

A fellow poet helped me get the last load to my car, I turned in my keys, and off I went.

You know, the whole five blocks home.

Unloaded everything, hauled it up the stairs. Unpacked about a third of the stuff.

Charlotte forgave me in about 10 minutes. It took Bea about an hour, Tessa two hours, and Willa didn’t really care, since her primary human (my mom) was there the whole time. She is her normal, pain-in-the-butt self.

We had some lunch. I tried to get more done, but was wiped out. I meant to lie down for 20 minutes in the afternoon and slept for 2-1/2 hours.

I heated up some dinner, and went to bed ridiculously early. I slept fairly well, in spite of waking up every two hours. I got back to sleep quickly. I did have a weird dream about a former boss.

Up a little before 6 AM, the normal routine for here. Charlotte is Velcro kitty, never leaving my side.

This morning, I have two sets of errands. I’m doing the usual grocery store-library-post office-other errands I would do on a Thursday. Once that’s all put away, I’m going down to the RMV to renew the vehicle registration, to Carr’s hardware to try a return and pick up a few other things, and out to Karen’s Quilt Shop in Williamstown to get what I need for the December FutureLabs piece.

Tomorrow’s plan is the laundromat first thing, and then taking my mom to her appointment in Lenox around noon (stopping at the chocolate shop on the way back).

I booked by COVID booster for first thing on Friday morning, and I’ll be in bed for the rest of the weekend with that, although I hope it’s not as bad as in previous years. My arm already hurts, just thinking about it. Beats the alternative, though!

I drafted a poem in this morning’s free-write session, integrating yoga poses with directional elements. It needs work, but it felt good to draft something and try to incorporate what I learned this past week.

Have a good one!