Day One Hundred and Forty - Siblings in the Sun

I had a successful visit today from my sister. She was more relaxed with lockdown protocols than our previous visit. She’s visited a couple of friends since the last trip. She was happy for me to cook her a meal. Did a one pot meal that I could serve without touching. Didn’t want to serve salad because I think salad is such a ‘touchy‘ meal! And she was happy to use my utensils. She brought me a couple of plants. She helped me in the garden as well. I must admit I was a bit worried about her because she doesn’t move as well as she used to and she uses a stick because of her dislocated knee. But she still managed to do a lot of clearing and deadheading for me. She also took lots of photographs of the butterflies and the bees and we spent ages observing a young damselfly on the salvia. And in the midst of our visit my brother called so we were able to kind of have a three way conversation. It’s not the same as all being together but it was nice. It was also reasonably quiet day. There were some socially distant loud conversations which made it difficult for us to converse and a brief frenzy of dog barking. I was quite relieved though overall because some days with the noise it would have been impossible for us to talk much without interruption. The only downside to the day was that she couldn’t find a parking space. Though I do have a small driveway because her movement is impaired it made it quite uncomfortable to get in and out of the car. Otherwise it was all fine.

I did manage an early walk and had a good chat with Sue. But my sister’s s visit took up the day. So I’m leaving it here today. I’ll be back tomorrow though!😉