4 AM, raining again, heartburn, Folger's in my cup, PallMalls. I'm a 56 year old woman sitting at my computer in Eeyore capri PJs (with rhinestones yet). The RV is parked next to my mother-in-law's (MIL) mobile home in West Monroe, Louisiana. We've been here for 6 weeks, and it's rained all but maybe 3 days. My assignment, Jim, is rehabbing MIL after SIL sprung her from the nursing home because MIL hated it there. Then SIL and BIL (also fulltime RVers) absconded, leaving US to take over in this godforsaken climate. There are crawdads in the lawn, armadillo parts all over the road, and my glasses fog up when I step outside. Plus it stinks from the paper mill up the road. I'm supposed to be on a beach in Mexico, sipping a Mojito. This is not what I signed up for.
MIL has all of her mental faculties, every one, at 83, but is missing one or two bodily functions, hence my duties mostly involve fetching, carrying, cooking, cleaning, and laundry. Lots of laundry. DH (dear husband) mows, walks dogs, fixes stuff, and chauffeurs MIL and I to appointments. SIL is supposed to return by November 1st, and we get to continue on to Mexico for the rest of the winter.
We didn't get to go to Mexico last winter, either (well, 2 weeks in February). We spent 15 months in Minnesota, including the worst winter in my memory, providing a loving, stable home environment for my grandbabies while their dad went to grad school. I miss them wretchedly. We can "See" them anytime, though, through Windows Live Video Chat. It's almost like being there, but not.
There is some down time here, between laundry loads, so I crochet and felt. I've always crocheted, but am brand-new to felting and am delighted every time I pull a project out of the hot water to see the transformation. They're for sale on Etsy Barbiloulou's Shop. Yes, there's a second "lou" on Barbilou. Etsy already had someone using Barbilou when I first signed up as a buyer, so I added lou. Unbeknownst to me I'd be stuck with it when I opened my shop later. And the avatar is Catwoman, Matured, bought on Ebay.
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