June 9, 2021

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Lately, Marlon has been the first one up.  It has been over a month, that he has been waking up early.  Often, that means he will just hang out on his phone until I get him breakfast.  This morning, he was reading.  Grateful for the change.

I was in the kitchen and saw two people walk by.  It turned out it was my friends, the two Kim's, wanting to know if I wanted to go for a walk.  We haven't gone for a walk together in two years.  What a treat!  Marlon was anxiously waiting for lunch when I came back home but he barely ate anything.  He hasn't been feeling great overall with minimal appetite.

I was entertained by a butterfly, slowly flying around quite close to me, at one point almost landing on my foot.

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