Seemingly endless. Or maybe it’s because this is my 1st retired Fourth. The 4th was a Thursday so lots of people were on holiday from the 4th to the 8th. And it’s seemed holiday-mode-ish since the beginning of last week. I just deleted literally hundreds of July 4th sale emails. Our long holiday weekend kind … [Read more…]
So, last week was kind of funny, because we got back from the library conference on Wednesday. I worked some on Wednesday afternoon, then full days Thursday – including going to campus to volunteer for the book sale – and Friday, and then it was the holiday weekend. Saturday I wore myself out on food … [Read more…]
And ending it late, I guess – I started writing this post on Thursday and am only finishing now on Tuesday back-to-work day. — The other day in an email my brother said I work too hard. So today (Thursday) I decided to start the July 4 weekend early. I am taking Friday off, and … [Read more…]
This afternoon for about an hour it just kept getting darker and darker, and there was even a little thunder, but no rain. I mean, now it’s raining hard AF, but there was a long threatening period. Kind of like dozens of other threatening things hanging over us now. I think I’ll just post a … [Read more…]
So in the last couple weeks, we’ve started doing a few things we have not done since before the pandemic. We’ve had small groups of friends over, no more than 4 so a total of 6 people counting us, and only outside. I got a haircut – but just the short kind, 15-min. bang trim, … [Read more…]
Over dinner on July 6 we were saying we wished all weekends could be four days. That’s why I thought my mom had the perfect schedule, back in the ’90s when she ran a small library at Braddock Hospital, now UPMC Braddock – oops I guess now closed, UPMC Braddock from 1996-2009. Mom retired in … [Read more…]
We got back at sort of an odd time – early afternoon Saturday. Early, but too late for the farmers market or the strawberry U-Pick at my CSA farm, that I went to last year, and brought two buckets home. And ate them for breakfast, and made jam. I got started cleaning up and doing … [Read more…]
… or week and almost a half, really. So not sure what’s going on with me. It’s been a 2-concert, holiday week, and lots of good things are arriving at the Farmers Market and in my CSA box, and I’ve been cooking them, but I haven’t written about any of it for the last 10 … [Read more…]
Lamers, yes, but we still managed to do some fun things, and I cooked a lot. We saw two movies, neither of which was overwhelmingly good, but still entertaining. [portfolio_slideshow pagerpos=disabled size=large] On Friday to start off the long weekend, we went to see Our Kind of Traitor and then came home and ate assorted … [Read more…]