Blueberry JellyGot two batches of blueberry jelly done yesterday afternoon. It did jell and turned out pretty tasty. I used some apple juice to make enough juice to make the two batches. Since my fanatic purging I found that I was lucky to have barely enough miscellaneous jars and old leftover lids to hold the jelly. I used paraffin to seal them just to be safe.
We have a few antelope around now that have drifted back into our valley. It's always fun to watch them coming and going. I also saw the first willets yesterday. The hawks are busy hunting and seem to be settled back into their homey nest in the only tree in the field. On the other hand..... the gravel trucks are incessantly rumbling by out on the county road. They start before daylight, so I don't know what time of the night they must get up in order to be out here at the crack of dawn.
About midnight last night I checked the email just to see if anything was working yet. Surprisingly I found that - YES!! it started downloading messages, and downloading messages, and downloading messages. Finally after 1300, some of them more than once when it got interrupted, all of them came in. No, that's not how many I would get in three days, even though sometimes it seems like that many. I know what happens is - if I don't go into hughes.net home page and delete out of there, everything is saved there and unless its deleted will come into my email again. And why I didn't just go there and delete all that I don't know. So all of March and April spewed into my inbox. It does seem much faster than before, that's good.
Not sleepy anyway, I sat and watched Ghandi while I downloaded and deleted. It was a very good movie. Had seen it years ago, but couldn't remember any of it and forgot he had been shot. I can remember seeing him on the newsreels when I was a kid. He really was an awesome person.
So... Come to find out hughes.net was doing some kind of upgrade and why it took four days (so far) I have no idea. This morning its off again and so no email today either. I want to shake them by the shoulders and scream "HOW MUCH LONGER!! My arm is sore - must be from clickiing the mouse too long.
The Oncology department was supposed to call me yesterday let me know what Dr. Ward and Dr. Jones had discussed, and to set up my next chemo appointment, but they never called. Maybe today. I've been going on Wednesdays lately, but tomorrow is supposed to be a stormy day - would be nice not to have to drive in a snowstorm one of these days. Will just be here waiting to find out.
Otherwise, yesterday I had more ambition than for a long time, got quite a bit done - jelly, laundry, changing sheets, vacuumed and mopped, made a pot of turkey vegetable soup, even some few marks of pastel onto the drawing. Makes me know I would feel better - for a while - without any chemo.
Joe got the SUV battery charged. He invited me to go to dinner today, maybe the Chinese place. I'll go to UPS to return the clothes, and the post office.
