Notes - Mama Jadah / spirit is not a world / unsettling

       Afternoon. You are feeling better after your exercises, a soaking bath, and following shower. Carol is checking out the master bath before they arrive tomorrow and has a couple of questions you cannot answer. – Amorella

       1333 hours. I don’t know why Joe does certain things in terms of copper pipe. I assume he has put the pipe a particular way so it won’t vibrate when water runs through it. Carol’s questions aren’t dumb but I can’t answer them. We’ll ask Joe tomorrow. I’m looking forward to seeing how Nick installs the granite around the tub and shower seat. – Jadah has been very particular, showing us the bathroom mirror being stored in Kim’s old bedroom. Her look and manner are: “Why is this here? Move it back where it belongs.” She has corralled each of us (meowing) at least twice to go into the bedroom and look. She doesn’t like the other bathroom supplies (towels, etc.) stored in there either; I assume because she can’t sleep on the beds. Both cats are creatures of habit (as are we) and Jadah plays ‘mom’ and likes things a particular way. She probably wonders how she got stuck with two human companions and a cat child she has to take care of. Actually, that’s me thinking. To her it is her obligation to take care of things or at least make sure things are taken care of. That’s what mother cats do. We love her, and Spooky too.

       Post. - Amorella

      You had ‘dinner’ at Cracker Barrel – Carol had trout and you had fried chicken. Presently you are at Pine Hill Lakes far north lot facing west. Carol is on page 396 of Harlan Coben’s The Stranger. – Amorella

       1604 hours. I stopped and bought a five inch wide four pronged item with a long handle for pulling dead grass from small patches in the front yard. I’m too old to stoop and dig or to crawl around the yard with a hand digger. I still don’t know what it’s called but it ought to work. Working in the yard in this temperature (70 degrees) is good and the ground is still a little wet so it’ll be easier. We have plenty of seed and it’s not too late for the grass to come up. I hear the train with its Sunday families coming to Mason from Lebanon and returning. Love the sound of the train whistle, (just blown) – grew up with it in Westerville and Minerva Park. The railroad tore the tracks out in the mid to late sixties, but not here. There it goes again.

       Orndorff, you forget your fingers are moving. Later, dude. – Amorella

       1614 hours. Odd, but that is the case. Habit. Whatever comes to mind goes down. I’m done.

       1727 hours. On the way home Carol suggested Graeters’ for dessert. Now we are at Kroger’s on Tylersville picking up bananas for breakfast and Carol’s favorite chips. I’ll wait until morning to try out my new ‘garden’ gadget.

       You have an October evening out there, boy – look at the blue in the sunlight slant and the clouds to the north, white fluffies to dark and ominous. You love October and March – so do I. We have some things in common. – Amorella

       1731 hours. Both are spooky months with sun and cloud shifts – sometimes clear, sometimes stormy. Are you ever haunted, Amorella? I am sometimes – with presences, though I know better, they have been induced in people via scientific means. For me they are as hallucinations, at least now (with reading the book).

       What a question, me, the Amorella, haunted.

       1737 hours. It seems to me the Dead could be haunted even though they are dead – I need the definition here.

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haunted – adjective

(of a place) frequented by a ghost: it looked like a classic haunted mansion.

• having or showing signs of mental anguish or torment: the hollow cheeks, the haunted eyes.

From - Oxford/American software

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       I am frequented with spirit, boy; but then, so are you otherwise we couldn’t connect. – Amorella

       1742 hours. In general, people refer to the ‘spirit world’. What does the spirit world mean to you?

       Nothing. – Amorella

       1744 hours. I suppose this is a response to remind me that from your perspective you are not human.

       You tell me, boy, what would a spirit world mean to a spirit? Spirit world is people talk. Listen, spirit is not a world. Why would spirits have a world, a place, if they are neither here nor there by definition and timeless besides (your terms not mine). – Amorella

       1747 hours. You tend to make sense, Amorella.

       Once home you and Carol worked on the front yard for a while, watched NBC News and the opening of last night’s Saturday Night Live before calling it quits on television. – Amorella

       1929 hours. It is dusk and I think I’m going to call it a night.

       Post. - Amorella

       You spent time looking at reviews of the 2017 Camry, Fusion and Accord hybrids instead of going upstairs to read another chapter from Hallucinations. – Amorella

       2012 hours. I didn’t find much to my liking on any of them – good thing we aren’t going to buy one anyway – just curious ‘cause it’s that time of year. While I’m at it; I can’t really imagine timelessness nor can I imagine neither here nor there, though I have a better sense of it because my brain is the way it is. Everywhere at once means no movement. I don’t move much anyway so I can handle that. The sense of ‘being’ though, it seems to me, would be ‘being where you are at any given time’ which is not so open sounding as being everywhere at once.

       Present is easier to grasp than past, present and future. – Amorella

       2024 hours. There would be no anticipation.

       Anticipation is not always peaceful. – Amorella

       2025 hours. What would you have to look forward to?

       You would be already there; there would be no forward. - Amorella

       2027 hours. This would be unsettling.

       Too bad. Life is what it is. Post. - Amorella

        2031 hours. I'm going to bed.