Five Year Anniversary

Life's sea hath been five years at its slow ebb;

Long hours have to and fro let crept the sand;

Since I was tangled in thy beauty's web

And snared by the ungloving of thine hand.

And yet I never look on the midnight sky,

But I hold thine eyes' well memoried light;

I never gaze upon the rose's dye,

But to thy cheek my soul doth take its flight;

I cannot look on any budding flower,

But my fond ear, in fancy at thy lips,

And harkening for a love-sound, doth devour

Its sweets in the wrong sense: Thou dost eclipse 

Other delights with thy remembering, 

and sorrow to my darling joys dost bring..

John Keats, 1819

In loving memory
January 16, 1959-May 28, 2015
I will always love you, Bob.

Did it!

Got Kona back in the pool!  Took a bit of patience and a ton of tennis balls. Ultimately, her love of tennis balls over-road her fear of the pool!

Two times now, she's been in the pool, fetching balls and thank heavens, acting normal!

Death Anniversary Coming Soon

Death Day is creeping up, May 28th... creeping up on me.... so know not what to do... everything still closed or partially closed because of the pandemic and I feel it -- May 28th creeping, creeping up, every morning when I wake up and see the calendar and soon it will be five years since Bob's been gone.......... and I think, how can that be? so long ago? Seems like yesterday, seems a hundred years ago....

And I am tired, stressed, shaken and having a hard time holding mine own........  Add to that, the other morning I woke up to find dozens of worms crawling up the sheer curtains in front of my french doors in the living room... OK, they were not worms but termites who had shed their wings, and I kept plucking them off the curtains and killing them, saved a few to show the "termite guy" and he said confirmed they were termites. And today, pulled a tissue out of the box only to find a termite on it! GA! Feel like I'm living in some horror movie.... (worms crawling all over! jeepers)

But whatever, what can I do that day? That death anniversary day. Confined as I am to the house.....

Anyone having a problem with this site?

Got an e-mail from "Google Search Console Team" saying that there are "Mobile Usability issues detected on pinkhouseonthecorner.blogspot.com" and the following issues found on my site: text to small to read, viewpoint not set to device-width and clickable elements too close together....  Then I'm supposed to click a button to fix it.....

Afraid to click a button which might just screw up my whole computer.

So am asking, has anyone had any problems viewing/reading by blog?  Let me know, yes or no.

Thanks

And as for me: been busy battling termites, hunting for toilet paper (found some today, YAY!) taking Kona on long walks since she won't go in the pool, still doing my laps without her, gained weight, damn! "stay at home" driving me crazy, emotions up and down, trouble sleeping, nightmares,  --- and working on my book....   sorry if the blog has been quiet.

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there.