More detachment, less anxiety and the continued joy of limbo

[Painter]

Not a tsunami for me, more like a low pressure ending with a downpour.

That nature stroll sounds great! I'm always concerned about signing up for those because I figure I'd get left behind.
The area sounds beautiful, especially the hardwood forest, and I'm glad you got to see something that's a little different than just where you live. Good think you found that tick early! It's horrific what they can cause - my stepdaughter has been sick for years from Lyme and now have chronic kidney problems.

This is a very green city with lots of parks and yards with crabapples, lilacs, tulips and lots of other plants. I especially like the little rock gardens I see everywhere. We're also within easy driving distance of farmland and nature, so really the best of both worlds, I think. We drove through lovely farmland yesterday to go to the festival. I'll tell you more about that when you come by here!

The weather has been extremely up and down here, too - 85F to lowest temp since 1944 on Friday! Why can't it just stay at a comfortable 65-70?

Hope you have a good session with the T today, and the homesteading sounds perfect! I bet that will be a great group for you. Maybe you'll find people there to network with when you want to go away and need someone to take care of the animals.

I can attest to the benefit of NC. I think my downpour yesterday was triggered by the positive contact I had with H on Saturday. It's almost worse when it's nice, because then it seems even more unfathomable what happened...