Not waiting for the other shoe to drop

Because maybe it has.

In the last week, we have managed:

A broken water pipe, so all the water to the house was turned off for hours. Miraculously, it was fixed on a holiday weekend.

Several short unannounced blackouts and brownouts that our electric company only admitted to after they were over.

An overheating, funny sounding gas cooktop. Patty still cooks some meals for herself. For me, being raw, needing to disconnect the cooktop is a non-event.

Two broken sprinkler heads (not a crowd pleaser to see the geysers of water running down the street in the midst of a drought). Warren, my wonderful Kiwi neighbor, and I did in almost 2 hours of sweat and miscalculation what my gardner could have done in 10 minutes, but we fixed it. Wonderful sense of achievement and completion. Cost was less than $3.00, if you don't include the hourly wages of a MD and CEO. And the laundry bill from our mud splattering.

All but the cooktop are resolved. And we even figured a way so that 2 of the burner are safely functional.

These things are nothing. Cancer gives you great perspective.

Going to fly a kite (bought a funky second hand kite on my way home from Torah study and services) .

Feeling much better about living in an unknowable world. Actually feeing just fine with it. The mist is not lifting, but I am OK with it.