We’re home. Arrived yesterday afternoon. Our lawn was covered with branches and long grass, and the house is in need of a good cleaning.

Already John has the lawn looking good after mowing and raking it but the house is going to have to wait until I recover.

I am still under-the-weather with no energy at all. I have a deep, productive cough that scares me because it sounds so bad. But at least today I am slightly better and the blinding headache I had for three days has lessened.

I am amazed that I’ve forgotten so many things. Being gone over seven months has definitely clouded my memory.

Examples:

I went to use the waste basket under the kitchen sink. Without thinking, I opened the door on the left side because that’s where the waste goes when we’re in Florida but here it’s on the right. The garbage disposal is also switched. Left here; right in Florida. I keep throwing garbage into the right drain. It seems to just be automatic.

TV channels?? I can’t recall the active channels here in Michigan. We don’t have cable here, so our channels are limited. I have trouble sorting out the major channels in my mind. Is CBS channel 5 or 25? (They switched a couple of years ago.) And there are two remotes in the bedroom. Which remote controls what?

I went to get a drink of water from the dispenser on the refrigerator door, but there isn’t one on this refrigerator. (There is in Florida.)

So many little things. Did I store the antihistamines in the drawer in the vanity or in the cabinet in the bathroom?

Do we need to buy toilet paper, or do I have some squirreled away?

Do I have any warm clothes here? (I’m freezing.)

Where’d I store the extra towels? Oh, ya, upstairs in the guest bathroom.

Where did I put my lingerie? I took most of my unmentionables with me, but I think some were left here? Where?

In the fall we left behind toothbrushes. They look new. But neither of us could remember which color was John’s and which was mine so they were tossed.