Hi Sally. I've been busy with a potpourri of things, and taking naps on the couch between activities, usually 2 or 3 out-cold naps because of the heat. Yes, hot here too in northern New Mexico, too much sun, so I have to wear my Solumbra clothing every time I go out. Which is also a little hotter than I like, to have to be covered up so much. I am sun sensitive as well as heat sensitive. I live here because my son and grandkids live here, and my late husband wanted to live here part time to be near them...but a fire and consequences made us full time here. the climate is actually good in some ways because the air is crystal clear except when we have forest fire smoke. No smoke so far this year....I will evacuated again (fourth time) if I have to.
Praying for no smoke this year.
I have been working on my medieval genealogy when I have a moment, and when the printer is working. Found more stuff from a genealogist who is interested in that 12th century ancestor, Eschyna de Molle, who was married 3 times and each time she married founded a new dynasty. I had not heard about the Douglass/Scot dynasty, but obviously they are "half siblings many times removed", a new facet of interest. Their descendant Prince William of Gloucester had porphyria as I do...but then he was also descended from the Stuarts, who were famous for porph, so who knows which of his many lines gave it to him.
So, Sally, in addition to that I have been doing the usual housecleaning, paper filing, and recovering from removal of a large basal cell on the back of my leg which the dermo never found....Physician's Assistant removed it, and it had to have wound dressings changed every other day.
I too dream of a tree to sit under and water to view...as in my hometown of Seattle.