Spring Time is on the way – 2020

Waking up to find the ground was wet and asking my partner – Rusty. Has it been raining all night? Does not seem like the rain has been through all night?
In Eureka, there was a 9mm of rainfall when I recorded the rainfall gauge out in the courtyard this morning.

Catching up work and emails in the office at home as I continue to work from home. Another new appointment to meet a person and discuss the questions I have in my mind. Taking a breather break by admiring the flowering trees such as Taiwan Cherry trees, kowhai trees and Rhododendron trees.

Our dogs ran out of our side door each morning and chasing rabbits when rabbits are on sight to our dogs’ eyes. Our dogs love chasing rabbits, birds, mouses even rat or possums.

Working through hours and taking regular breaks for our dogs wanted to go outside to chase rabbits or to spies something out in the broad fields where they can hear pitch sounds that I am deaf. Often dogs make me distracting from work in the office and can be annoying while I am trying to type emails, doing researching Catholic history and blog.

Blast goes the hearing aid in my right ear went severely unworking as it was full of whistling at the high pitch sound that really hurt Rusty’s ears in the afternoon. Struggling to find the problem of my soon to be out of date hearing aid which I am hoping for a pair of brand new hearing aids by next month or the following month. Better than in April 2021 due to the COVID 19 shift my assessment from April this year. No luck of finding the problem for the Audiology Department is closed until tomorrow morning. I managed to find my old spare hearing aid for it was not a digital typed hearing aid. Finally, it is working now and giving Rusty a peace.

The sun is still shining after 5pm, and we can not wait for the warm Springtime so we can continue to work in the garden including vegetable gardens, tidying up the old house area to make way for the small garden and a couple fruit trees. What I am saying is that I am hoping my project on gardenings and landscape will be complete by Autumn 2021 since we moved here in 2014 November. The last project I planned was 4 years; unfortunately, the set back was my right side of my body injury and unable to locate the problem. In 2016, the specialist had been given me the symptom, which is a Degenerative disc disease along with a Radiculopathy cervical. If you are not sure what this means – here is the symptom and I am living with it. Cervical radiculopathy occurs when a nerve in the neck or upper back is compressed. The symptoms associated with cervical radiculopathy include:

• pain in the neck, shoulder, upper back, or arm
• weakness or numbness typically experienced on one side

Some days I am okay than any other days I am not okay, so I need to focus on myself and to change the maintain around the garden, for example, less weeding, pruning the branches, lifting wheelbarrow, fences, digging a hole. I do not spend time on computer/laptop/iPad in the evening for it make me tiring. Yes, I often check the emergency emails or texts in the evening since I work through the Lockdown Level Four back in March. Not everyone, even my family noticed how much work I went through. There were not any visitors insight, just our neighbours passing by and the staff of two workplaces during Level Two.

Let see what future bring for us especially the Summertime.