Day #49 of Year #2

[shadowkat]

Another sick sinus headache - so no walk. I want one - but there's a disturbance in the weather and that always gives me sick sinuse headaches, which can lead to vertigo. My balance is off - I can feel it. So am leery of going anywhere at the moment. They are also predicting thunderstorms.

Not a good day. I'm not feeling well - due to my allergies, and I'm angry and frustrated, mainly sad. I asked for three miracles in the fall, and the only one that didn't happen was my parents...being okay. They were okay last year at this time, but the world had gone insane. Now the world appears to be evening out a bit, but they aren't okay.

My plan had been to fly down this spring to see my parents, as soon as I got vaccinated. But I can't - I need to wait until my mother gets better at least. Mother saw the doctor today. It's not good news. They still have no idea how she broke the bone. And no, they've never had any cases in which they couldn't figure it out. There's no cancer, no tumors, no osteoporosis.
Nothing. And she swears she did nothing to break it.

But..it's also not healing that much. As mother posted on her FB page: "It still is not healed and no signs it will soon. Blood does not circulate well in that area to help with healing. So I will continue as I am for awhile before I search out a trauma specialist. That might incur more surgery which I hope to avoid."

Per mother, Sisinlaw is a bit of an activist apparently. At least in her small town of Kinderhook, NY.

Mother: She found out that the Town Council was meeting on outlawing solar panels or not permitting people to put them on their houses and lawns.
Me: Okay, why would anyone want to outlaw solar panels?
Mother: I don't know - they were putting them on wrong? At any rate as your brother said, it's one thing to make restrictions on how to put them on, and another to outlaw them all together.
Me: So what did she do?
Mother: She called all her Democrat friends, and brought twenty people with her to the meeting - they ended up tabling the vote.

Apparently that's not Sisinlaw's only project.

Mother: Sisinlaw discovered that New York had slaves back in the day. And there's a slave graveyard underneath the ball field and playground in a nearby park. So she's putting together a protest to get the ball field and playground moved, and recognition to the slaves. But your brother told me that he doesn't think they are going to want to give up their ballfield or playground or care that much.
ME: I don't know. I'd not want to have my kids playing over a graveyard. Are the bodies still there?
Mother: Yeah, the bones are still buried there.
Me: Nor would I want to be playing ball over graves. It's a bit creepy, that's a horror flick or novel waiting to happen.
Mother: Like Poltergiest.
Me: Exactly.

Sisinlaw finds ways to entertain herself. She's also really social and apparently not plagued with phone phobia. I'm activist, but I'm a loner. Calling folks and persuading them to do things doesn't work for me - I've enough troubles persuading them to just do fun stuff. But I don't blame her for getting riled up over those two things - I'd feel much the same way.

Adventures in aerogarding - or gardening for folks who accidentally kill plants.



As you may or may not be able to see? The Genovese Basil kind of survived my butchering, the mint and thyme have gone nuts, the Thai Basil is doing find, and the Dill is off doing it's own thing, alone. The parsely won't germinate or bloom, and I've given up on it.

Sigh still nursing this headache. Ugh. Took stuff, put ice on the back of my neck, etc, it will not go away.

Comments

[cactuswatcher]

She found out that the Town Council was meeting on outlawing solar panels

Yep, some people get really strange about what they think lowers their property values. I suspect If I asked my HOA if I could put solar panels on the roof facing the street they'd say no. They might be okay or might not with them facing the back.

I hope your headache passes soon. It seems to be past the season here where my sinuses won't behave.

[jesuswasbatman]

The attitude to cemeteries changes a lot over the years. In the 19th century they were public parks for people to wander around and enjoy the scenery. I really don't think that the people buried there would feel insulted by people using the cemetery for recreation.

[shadowkat]

Except that they were slaves, and buried without markers, and the recreation is on top of their unmarked graves? And the people recreating are white? I mean it's not quite the same thing as picnicing in a cemetery, or having a playground in an established cemetery. This is one where the remains of slaves have been found underneath a playground and ball park.

We have a similar issue in Brooklyn - where there's a vacant lot that contains the remains of the unmarked graves of slaves - about to be sold to a developer for affordable housing.

I'm thinking we need to lock a few folks in a room with various ghost horror films for a month - and then gaslight them. Or better yet? Build an apartment complex over their families graves, and ball fields/playgrounds over where their loved ones are buried, and remove all their markers. And cremate the remains.

[jesuswasbatman]

That's weird. I don't remember posting that comment last night, and it's identical to one I remember posting in response to a post you made months ago, about people arguing over whether it was OK to have fun in the cemetery where you usually walk.

[shadowkat]

Oh, how odd. What is DW up to? I know FB does weird things with comments, but didn't realized DW did as well.

I did think it looked exactly the same as the comment to a previous post - so thought it odd. Also it doesn't make sense coming from you in this context.

[mtbc]

We got some good thunderstorms last night and today so maybe those are the ones on their way to you.

Yeah, I really don't want to call folks and persuade them to do things. I have found that to cause fun stuff, it can suffice to simply tell people where and when and what, assuming one doesn't need to know numbers in advance.