A Cloudless Sky

The sky yesterday was unreal -- clear and blue and utterly cloudless, which in England is a rarity! Olga and I went for our morning walk and she seemed as impressed by this blooming tree as I was.

I spent yesterday tackling some small tasks around the house, like getting our blankets washed. Then, at noon, Dave and I went to the Royal Free Hospital for his, as I put it ambiguously yesterday, "procedure." I suppose there's no reason I can't come right out and say that he had an endoscopy, because he's been having terrible heartburn related (we believe) to one of his Crohn's medications. The good news is, it found no evidence of ulcers or anything like that -- but it did find irritation, so he's going to need a stronger antacid and he's changing one of his meds as well.

Dave had optimistically made dinner reservations at an Italian restaurant for last night, but we wound up cancelling them because he was tired after the hospital. (He'd forgotten he had this appointment when he made them.) So we'll put that off until next weekend, maybe.

I did some stuff in the garden -- mainly pulling ivy off the rose bushes, trimming back more of the blackberries and removing a dead wallflower. Olga, as you can see, joined me. She loves yardwork!