I hope Ron sits me down and pours me a whiskey on the rocks, thus cutting out the middle man.
Have given up on finding people on Cape Cod who are good but not superficially “nice”, who are open to new ideas, who do not worship wealth as an end in itself and who are not part of the “born lucky” crowd.
It is supposed to rebloom in 3-4 months.
I heat-sterilized a pair of scissors and put a cinnamon slurry on the two cut stems.
Kitty was here, resting. His first visit was around 8 this morning.
While waiting for Robert, I cut down the last of the grasses at Edgewater and brought the pile to the transfer station. Ron is on his way back to get rid of old gasoline.
He replaced the furnace filter.
Had another kitchen mess this morning, nasty batter that fused so badly to the waffle iron grids that I had to soak them for hours.
Got the “tent” around the hydrangea filled with leaves. Replaced and increased the pile on the daffs, some are starting to sprout.
We did laundry, changed sheets and did the transfer station run. Dropped off pumpkin soup at Edgewater.
Minor tweak to MRS, added a flag for online registration.
Yesterday: made chili for lunch, did some cleanup here and brought a truckload to the transfer station. Spent about 20 minutes at the gym and fed the truck at Cumby’s.
Drove Alpha to work and stopped at Shaw’s on the way back.
Kitty was here for a couple of hours.
Ron changed the filters in the water pitchers.
Today: walked on the treadmill for 20 minutes while Ron checked out the fitness center. Brought home a sandwich from Panera with the balance of the gift card from Cindy. I made pumpkin soup and created a mess on the counter in the process. Good excuse to deep clean.
Ron and I set up a burlap barrier around the purple hydrangea. I finished removing gone-bys from the back.
He wants to learn to speak Python!
Me: I am ashamed.
Ron: Don’t be ashamed; change!
Because of the surgery, I’ve been behind the power curve on yard work at Edgewater.
In fact, I haven’t given Edgewater maintenance much thought, but it was so warm today – in the fifties – that it seemed a shame to waste a perfectly good work day.
Peter asked me to drive James home at 2:30, so I stayed for about an hour afterwards, cutting down the big grasses and a few odds and ends in the back yard garden.
It went fast and pretty much filled the truck. I’ll do a transfer station run tomorrow and try to finish up there and do some minor raking here before the next freeze or snowfall.
Ron, having been occupied until last week with his * $10/hour job, needs to go back to finish cleaning the gutters and downspouts. He talked with a UI representative today.
Panera has been treating me to a bagel a day – for the whole month of January!
We’ve been eating all month courtesy of Panera and the Pantries. It makes a big difference. I am grateful for their help, especially since I found out only today that I owe the Wound Center over $230.
Took a while, but Ron was able to file his unemployment claim and (we hope) get his name corrected.
We did a late transfer station run and hit the bank, the senior center and Panera on the way home.
I built the database the other day and was able to complete an MRS transaction all the way through.
I was out first, briefly, to get the paper. Ron uploaded a hilarious video of me lurching through it with me bad leg.
We finished the driveway and walkways by 1:30 or so. Very cold. Ron and the Cub Cadet did good work.
