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to do where i can interact with people most days that may be volunteer work or it may be something else but i am well aware that it can t be as caretaker for my mom no matter how selfish that sounds or feels i ve had some physical health challenges over the last six months but i am trying to deal with them one by one i m also renewing my attempts to move more and eat less which my job has also helped i am not naturally a high energy busy person even as a child my favourite activities weren t actually activities but very quiet pastimes that i enjoy to this day reading handcrafts writing and thinking it is difficult to integrate exercise into that framework especially as i get older and creakier so that s the update on this warm windy day in donkey land i m off to do some chores that will make life easier for future me laundry needs washing so it can air dry see above re dead dryer housework needs doing i still have a boatload of stuff here from my mom s house to be cleaned and donated there is no shortage of things to keep me busy please enjoy some memes before you go and finally for all my fellow vertically challenged peeps out there that s it for now later my friends posted by jenny_o at 13 13 00 37 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday 16 april 2025 ai in blogland first of all i realize the title today is not crystal clear given the font in which my blog appears ai in this case uppercase a 1st letter of the alphabet followed by uppercase i 9th letter of the alphabet and as many folks nowadays are aware it stands for artificial intelligence it is not a one as the new u s secretary of education and former wrestling promoter pronounced it repeatedly in a recent interview on ai in the classroom it s not al either the shortened form of names such as alan or alex or allison immortalized in you can call me al paul simon s catchy tune from 1986 and after that painfully long introduction all i wanted to say was that i ve started noticing what i suspect are ai generated comments on this blog and others i delete them which is why you don t see them here they are perfectly pleasant comments but do not contain an original thought they are a neat summary of your blog post have you noticed them too posted by jenny_o at 18 16 00 51 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 5 april 2025 capturing true colour in photos shortly after starting my blog in 2016 while taking pictures of some spring flowers i noticed how hard it was to get some colours to show up in photos the way i see them in real life blue flowers are particularly hard to capture since then i ve noticed that sunrises but not sunsets seem to photograph differently from what my eye sees as well the moon is difficult too without fail a beautiful amber moon looks pale yellow in photos now some of this is undoubtedly my camera it is a point and shoot digital camera and it is older than my blog but when i was having trouble photographing the blue spring flowers i remember searching the internet for an explanation the best answer i could find was that there is no true blue in nature our perception of it is determined by the physics of light maybe that applies to other colours too recently i bought my mother a cardigan it was a beautiful shade of deep pink that i hoped she would like as she has definite preferences about the colour of her clothing it was a thrift store buy and had non matching buttons which i wanted to replace i thought the before and after photos of the sweater with its change of buttons might be interesting to compare and i might write about it i ve been having trouble finding a topic to blog about recently because i mostly just consume political news but that s a post for another day or not at all i did not use my digital camera to take these pictures the battery needed charging so the problem is not entirely the camera either i used my tablet which doesn t seem to take great photos overall but colours are generally okay but when i went to photograph the sweater i realized the colour was off and that became the focus of my photos here is the before photo with original buttons and here s the after photo with pale pink buttons but look how much the colour of the sweater has changed i took both photos in the same location in front of a northerly window so the only thing that was different was the time of day and hence the lighting the second photo was taken about two hours after the first it didn t take me two hours to sew on five buttons i just got distracted doing something else in the middle of the job but the weirdest thing is that neither of these photos caught the true colour of the sweater i went from place to place in my house trying to find a spot that would give me the photo i wanted i tried different lighting and different angles i didn t go outside in natural light because it was a miserably wet and cold day and i m not that dedicated finally i was able to reproduce the colour as my eyes were seeing it it s the colour in the shadowed region left side of the following shot the shadow was created by the tablet as i held it to take the photo i don t know why it was so hard to photograph this colour in a true to life way maybe one of you who has a better camera or more knowledge of colour theory or photography can help me with this question my mother liked the sweater very much by the way so i was relieved and happy that i was able to provide her a bit of enjoyment at a time when she doesn t seem to have much of that have you noticed similar issues with your photos have you ever replaced the buttons on clothing to make it look nicer have you ever gotten distracted in the middle of one thing by something infinitely more interesting have you been following politics recently have a good weekend my people may you never ever have a blog post with as many suggestions by auto correct as i ve had with this one every time i ve spelled colour it has been underlined with that annoying red squiggly line that demands i change it to color posted by jenny_o at 18 14 00 43 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 1 february 2025 good things on my last post i said i d write about the good things in my life and here they are my family i have two adult children and three grandchildren a brother extended family and in laws you may recall that my son moved home last year he took over the yardwork and snow removal at both my house and my mother s house he and my brother have been a tremendous help in getting mom s house cleared out and cleaned up my brother lives three hours away but he came here several times to clean out the basement remove furniture and do repairs my other family in laws are also an important part of my life some of them currently have or did have their own experiences with dementia in a loved one and we support each other in that and many other ways my friends and neighbours almost all of the folks on my street have lived here for many years and our kids grew up together two of my neighbours have close relatives with dementia it s one more thing we have in common about a year ago i also reconnected with a childhood friend we have known each other since the day we started school although we have zig zagged toward and away from each other for many years our shared early history is now both a comfort and a source of identity as we age and we get together regularly my alzheimers support group all dementia causes are included not just alzheimers the once a month meeting of dementia caregivers has become both a support and a pleasure in my life the facilitator is excellent and we unite around the shared fact of our loved ones dementias and our roles as caregivers we have the opportunity to talk about how things are this month share ideas strategies sympathy and encouragement and laugh together too my work and my workmates i work part time in a small office where my co workers are without exception kind and supportive of one another although i usually work evenings which means our work hours these days coincide only occasionally sometimes i go to the office early and now and then we have lunch as a group the work itself is a way to get out of my head and i usually feel better on the days when i ve had a few hours of productivity and mental challenge my blogland buddies that s you i had no idea when i started reading blogs about twenty years ago how well i would come to know some bloggers and how positively my life would be impacted by people i have never met in person this is a community of interesting caring and multi talented folks i m so glad to know you other good things in my life my son shares his two cats with me to whatever extent i wish and it is nice to have them around my mother s neighbours were very good to look out for her as she aged and her abilities declined they often mowed and cleared snow before my son took over kept an eye on her when she was outside noticed if her lights were on or off at unusual times and took the time to have a conversation with her even when she repeated things over and over one in particular had experienced dementia in her family and understood mom s behavior a comfortable home never going hungry before my husband s illness i would have described myself as a happy person overall since then i have struggled with grief loneliness endless worry depression and feeling overwhelmed but i am starting to feel more like my old self this post has turned into more than just an acknowledgement of the good things that balance the hard things i ve been experiencing it has re opened my eyes to my good fortune in life even with my losses and challenges one more good thing yesterday was the closing of the sale of our mother s house the responsibilities connected with it are suddenly gone i felt so light immediately on handing over the keys to the new owner i know i ve been stressed especially the past month but i m surprised by how much lighter i feel how was your week i hope there were happy things in it posted by jenny_o at 23 21 00 56 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday 15 january 2025 feels like forever and yesterday hello my friends it s been five months since my last post how can that be how are you all this is my update my mother who was admitted to a nursing home on may 31 has had a series of health issues some caused by living in a group setting and some caused by age her cane was taken away because she was using it as a weapon to resist care she was given a walker instead she continues to pine for her home and doesn t understand where she actually is now she can articulate clearly that life as she is living it is only existing her ability to express that blew me away and also made me feel very sad for her i try to listen empathize and distract her with other topics but her constant requests to go home make visits hard far too often i dread the visit so much i literally cannot make myself go when i do not visit i feel guilty so i have a choice dread or guilt we have been working on selling her house over the past couple of months we will not tell her as it would cause her even more distress i lost both of my companion cats in september in less than two weeks lucy my calico began having breathing problems after one week of medication that should have helped she was getting worse it was awful to see her laboured breathing i had to make the decision to have her euthanized she was thirteen years old loved on her own terms and was such a stoic cat then my beautiful all grey diva cat meredith sixteen who had had kidney disease for several years deteriorated so much that i knew it was time to let her go too the dread i had before each of their final visits to the vet was overwhelming i knew the grief that would follow and i didn t know how i could face it again grief is exhausting and losses are cumulative in their effect every loss reminds me of the ones that preceded it i went into hibernation for a month and a half after that i did the least i could to get by gradually i started functioning better again my mother in law was very ill this fall too with covid and other things she has recovered fairly well although she has slowed down she also states that she feels she has some memory loss since her illness we hope she will gradually get back the abilities that she lost one of my favourite aunts who lived on the other side of canada passed away in early december she was receiving treatment for cancer for nine years there were no more treatments for her doctors to try she wrote to me weekly for more than a year after my husband s death she had early dementia and i preferred writing back so she could re read the letters but i often put it off because of the things i was busy dealing with and because i wanted to take the time to do it well perfectionist tendencies are a bug not a feature and don t let anyone tell you differently i was able to call her before she deteriorated too much but it didn t make up for all the times i put it off christmas and new year s have come and gone i was able to see my newest grandson finally he is seven months old now they only live ninety minutes away but there was one thing after another that kept me from getting there including some of the above plus work heatwaves vehicle troubles snowstorms and clearing out my mom s house it was good to finally see them over the holidays the fourth anniversary of my husband s death has just passed like so many other major changes in life it feels like both more and less time has gone by i feel like i am doing better than i was a neighbour who lost her husband in a tragic accident a couple of years prior to my husband s death told me that it took five years before she started feeling like herself again i think this may not be an unusual timeline perhaps especially for a partner or spouse my brother son and i have been working at clearing out mom s house prior to the closing of the sale it has been a big job i m about to start cleaning it now i haven t even cleaned my own house in ages because of all the other stuff happening and also because i have been sad and stressed it has been an education to me over the last few years how much energy it takes to deal with heavy feelings anyhow that s my update i haven t been in blogland very much even for reading let alone commenting i m sorry for that but i m starting to feel more like getting back to it how have you been i hope 2025 treats you well tell me your hopes for the new year if you d like i m hoping for my life to become more stable again fewer crises and difficult feelings would be good less of the feeling like a leaf in a flooded stream being whisked downstream at frightening speed going under from time to time yes floating slowly able to absorb some of the good things in my life again that s what i am hoping for i think m...