A text I didn’t expect, It’s been awhile

Friday evening I was getting a few things done around the house when my phone vibrated, indicating a text came in. When I saw it’s sender I think I stopped breathing for a second, it was from Dawn. I talked about Dawn’s terrible accident that happened on February 21st. After a period of her being in an induced coma for a couple weeks her progress, at least the progress that I knew about was slow. It did not sound like she would be in any condition to use a phone. Well I was wrong.

Evidently Dawn has been conscious and responsive for over a week but her phone was sitting at her house dead. She finally had someone get it to her evidently. After a few texts back and forth I asked if she was able to talk a bit, which she could so I called her. It felt a little surreal to hear her voice since at one point I was unsure if I ever would again. It didn’t take long until it was clear that at least mentally she was ok. Physically she is a mess. Her injuries are going to take a long time to heal. She has no memory of the day she crashed which is probably a good thing.

It was a relief for me to know that at least the Dawn I know is still present. She later posted something on social media letting people know that she was back among the land of the living which made hundreds of people happy. I am sure she is going to be absolutely deluged with people wishing to see and offering to assist her which is good to know. Unfortunately there also has been an undertone of less than good energy from certain people surrounding her situation that I hope can be resolved one way or the other. I told Dawn that if she needed anything to let me know, although I know that she is not adept at asking for help, at all. The world felt a little brighter by me knowing although Dawn has a long way to go, she will be ok.

On Saturday afternoon I took my V9 out to the swamp. I had not ridden the swamp in a number of months. While I was out there I drove by my old house as well as take in the changes around the area. There is a lot of new retail space around there. My house looked much as I last saw it although I did notice the orange Husqarvana tractor that I included with the house had been replaced with a new looking John Deere tractor.

The V9 is a commuter wheel that is primarily designed for hard surface riding but I was curious how it would perform in a more challenging terrain such as the swamp offers. Because it was late in the day and hot I only saw one gator during the ride. The wheel performed well, better than I initially expected. In total my ride was 12 miles and I enjoyed all of it outside of the last couple when my feet and knees were hurting a bit.

On Sunday I was on the road for close to 7 hours in the Tesla. I activated full self driving for a month and utilized it once again. It truly is set and forget in almost all situations. I rarely have to intervene. It drove me all the way back from Tampa without as much as a hiccup, pretty crazy. Elsa was along for the ride and was quite content laying in the back on her dog bed and fuzzy blanket.

Speaking of Elsa, she provided me with close to an hour of work over the weekend running the spot bot in the office. She threw up. When she throws up she insists on doing it on carpet instead of the vast areas of hard surface in the house. Usually when she throws up it’s due to her eating something she shouldn’t like stuffed toy parts or grass. She also is miserably bad at chewing her food. In the throw up was a quarter sized treat I gave her that was swallowed whole like a pill.

So instead of just giving me one spot she evidently walked around the room, leaving me trails to clean up. In total I filled and emptied the Spot Bot three times until I had all of the mess cleaned up. My desire to replace the carpet in the bedrooms with a hard surface like vinyl plank is 80% motivated by dog activities.