Yesterday's post did not post! I carefully did up the pages of glaze recipes so they would be easy to read when printed. In the end, I had 25 pages and managed to find enough white paper for the pics and off-white for the rest. Put in folder to take back to the mill for measuring and testing. It was a useful exercise although I surely will not use them all but it helped me clarify in my own mind what I do want to do - what colours and to what base glazes I can add what colourants for the desired colours. Very excited about some of them and anxious to get at it.

A clear indication that I am regaining energy - when something falls on the floor, I pick it up! Put the recycling out this am without hesitation. Brought in items that had been left in the car - some for a week or so. Feel prepared to get up to the studio and make large mugs, maybe small teapots and more.

It is up to 12 F and meant to rise to 27 today! So the studio should also warm up enough!!
I just went to bring in the recycling bin and ---it's snowing! lightly. May have rain tomorrow and Thursday. Messy but warmer is better!

Another good sign that I am feeling better is that the 99 steps to the toilet at the mill is no longer daunting. at least it has heat in it! I put on hat and scarf and - am glad it is warm when I get there and also glad to get back to the living space!

Yesterday, after our quick breakfast at the mill, I drove back in case R needed to talk on phone. I was greeted by a letter from the gov regarding my app for a "permanent resident card" (prc). Request for a copy of my divorce decree set me down with horror at - no idea where it is - that was in the 70's! A vision of having to go through the boxes of archives - no I have not done that yet!

Then practicality set in - focus, Dorothy! Where has it been in the past? My mind went all the way back to the 70's when "important papers" were in a brown envelope pressed against the front of a drawer in my chest of drawers. AH! Consistency is good! I "saw" it pressed against the front of the metal filing thingy where the file folders hold bills and - there it was!! YAY!

The decree, in French, and all the blank pages of my passport were soon copied and folded carefully into the too small envelope provided. and off I went to the post office, in the IGA, where, once again, that same man was mailing a billion brown envelopes. I did the needful shopping and only had to stand in line a few minutes in the end. I had stamps in hand and the nice staff offered to put them on for me. I thanked her and she said, "No! Thank YOU! have a good day!" She gave me such a nice feeling - a Pay it Forward feeling. I guess that mass mailing had been stressful for her also! She knew I had been waiting a long time and may have been delighted that I did not mention it. So we were both happy.

Then to the library where my fav staff person was friendly and we exchanged book suggestions, and back to the house and the second closest parking space. I felt accomplished and had a nice lunch and read a very short "Quick Read" book, tended to emails, responded briefly to a couple.

This morning, I had heated water ready and washed the accumulated dishes before my one piece of toast/tahini/apple brekkie (R had to dash away), took my supplements, dealt with emails, googled a friend to find out phone number - not a simple task as "Peter Sipkes" (the way I have always heard it - the last 40 years!) is actually "Pieter Sijpkes"! Once I found the correct spelling in the McGill U site, then it was easy! (A couple years ago we attended a party celebrating the 40th anniversary of his landing in Canada!)

Well, I best get on with it!