Lethargy

One day of autumn gloom and immediately it's seeping into my body. I switched on the SAD light this morning, but it's hard to swim against this tide. I need to stay active, but every impulse is to withdraw, be still and silent. I went to Two Rivers today, of course. My larder was bare, so for potluck lunch I took a pot of rice. The other three people who showed up brought potatoes, potatoes and cake. It doesn't help when everyone else is tugged by the same instinct to eat carbohydrates and hibernate.

This is Canada. Pretending to live normally in winter is stupid. Chipmunks and snakes do what their bodies tell them. Why are people so stubborn? Find me a community of cave people who coil in a warm ball for four or five months and I'll consider joining.

Today is also the first day I've felt any arthritis pain (in my hips, of course) since I started taking glycosamine tablets a week ago. I don't know yet whether it's helping, or why today it is not, but low pressure frequently affects my joints. Besides, remembering to take a pill three times a day is a bit of a stretch for me, even if it tastes good. I suspect I've missed one dose each of the past two days.

It looks like I might find a solution for the computer memory problem, at least a temporary one. I get by with a little help from my friends. For now, I have enough backlog from the past six weeks to keep us in pictures for a few days longer.

This unfamiliar fungus cropped up in the cottage garden the week Danny and I were staying there. It is about 1 cm in diameter and seems to be a startled species of puffball, Lycoperdon.