a less exciting week, spent keeping an eye on one of the senior’s food intake, ahead of a scheduled colonoscopy. it’s hard for elderly people to manage these things on their own — the instructions are always long but somehow still ambiguous enough to make it extra confusing. :( add a big storm to the mix (with delays and lots of services closed), and you basically spend the week eating clear jello and chicken soup.

one of the good things of being in the “village” (in reality, a small city, but our senior lives on the edge of it, which is practically countryside) is that the municipal pool there is excellent — and recently opened a sauna inside. :D i went several times.

speaking of swimming, on friday we returned home to aveiro and i was able to take LJ to the pool! they managed to change her swim class to one with a friend of hers and a female teacher, and things have been going better lately. hurray for much splashing and no tears!

well, the universe seems to somehow be conspiring against us, because no sooner did we leave one senior, another started requiring supervision… so now here we are in porto, to keep an eye on my father this time. there’s some doctor appointments booked for next week, and we’ll see how that goes.

in the meantime, we’ve explored a bit of the leça green corridor, which we had only heard about before. the river is still quite polluted, but steps are being taken to improve it and it’s nice to see so much wildlife around it already. i spotted lots of moorhens and a cetti’s warbler on my walk! i’m very proud of managing to keep up my walking streak lately, despite the weather.