3 more sleeps

3 more sleeps and I go to Winnipeg so this week is all about getting ready. But first my senior and I did a lot of chores in the yard. We got the chicken coop ready for Mary's baby chicks which arrive when I am gone. Mary may move a rocking chair out to the coop so she can better keep an eye on the babies. Cleaned up dog doo doo. Now that used to be a job we shared. Wasn't too bad this year as Buddy seems to run back the south field to do his business. Then we installed the repaired tire on the van. I even managed to get the donut back up under the vehicle after reading the manual.

I have started to pack a few things. 9 days 9 pairs of panties plus a couple extras. I've been told to put little shampoos and toothpaste into Ziploc bags for flying. So in order to find them I had to root though the bathroom drawers. Well now that turned into a whole evening project. People- please do yourselves and your partner a favour and regularly clean out your bathroom drawers. I didn't realise we were such slobs. We each had a set of drawers and of course the top drawers hold the most often used items including pills, hair brush and toothpaste. Well with a hairbrush goes loose hair, spilled packages of cough candies, band aids, ear plugs and Lee's collection of nail files. She had almost as many as she had knives. How did all this stuff get collected without me paying any attention to it?! I have some denture cleaner tabs to give away as my teeth are my own and Lee had store bought ones. Jewellery was mixed up in both of our drawers. Some day I will match everything up. Tonight was a combination of embarrassment (at our degree of basic filth) and sentimentality. I wondered when I wore all these earrings last. I found several gold chains belonging to Lee. Perhaps I'll wear one of hers.....

I got a nice card in the mail today from a long time friend of Lee's and inside were quite a few pictures of the 2 of them when Lee was in her early twenties. Several were on her parents sail boat. They looked like they had a lot of fun. I had a great talk with this friend on the phone after she had received a package of materials from Lee's service. She told me Lee had entered the convent twice. She took a break for some unknown to me reason then went back again. Was she running away from this friendship? I wonder.... and will never know.