Self-care today is hunkering down and staying in doors as much as possible. Air quality is bad again today, but will improve tomorrow, and we're even going to get a little bit of rainy stuff. We are so lucky that the air can clear here whereas other areas, such as Portland in particular, the air is so hazardous no one really knows what the lingering effects will be. And then there is everyone impacted by the fires themselves. We have to do our forest management differently, our Governor is a climate change advocate, yet I can't think of anything he's specifically done with forest fire prevention, but need to research because there may be stuff that just isn't getting the press.
I brought a kitten home yesterday - meet Queen Ester.
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She is a month younger and half the size of Pippa, but can hold her own. Some serious roughhousing has been going on since they met... including last night... and on the bed. So she seems like a good match, and she definitely thought I was her person when we met so I'm looking forward to having a good connection with her as well.
Other self-care plans for today: first Seahawk's game is in about an hour, so I'm going to curl up on the sofa and watch and watch a bunch of guys run around and knock each other over. After that there will be some reading, I'm still working on "The Invention of Wings", I really like it but the font size in the book is small so I can only read for so long. My next book "Adventures in Opting Out", the new book by Cait Flanders, who wrote "The Year of Less" arrived, but I want to finish what I'm working on before I pick it up.
Other than that, it's trying to figure out a way to turn off my brain. I was going around and around with losing Whitehall and did I do enough, but felt like I'd finally worked that out. Then when I was visiting with my Sister yesterday she said she'd had a dust-up with my Brother over political stuff. I'm pretty pissed that after just losing my other Brother last fall this Brother would do what he did knowing what the result would be. And at the same time, I don't have space for the way he (and his family) behaved so I'm opting out of that relationship for the time being. I just have to get my brain to let go of it.