1. Today worried me just a little bit. I was just a little too comfortable sheltering in place, a little too willing to just sit around all day, working some puzzles, drinking coffee, enjoying a late evening martini, yakkin' with Debbie, eating leftover ham soup, watching some television, and just generally entertaining myself -- and finding it so easy! I've kind of always been this way, though, a little too content to hang out inside and lounge around.
2. I sauntered out to the kitchen around 4:00 and I saw a stranger in the back yard, a slight kid, probably middle school age. I popped out back and said, "Hi! What's up?" Turns out Ethan, who takes care of our lawn, hired him. "Great!" I replied. I hadn't seen Ethan's landscaping rig and trailer parked next door in front of Jane's, but, aha!, lawn care time has arrived. Once lawn season is underway, I never know when Ethan and his crew will pop up -- and, I kind of like that -- can't really explain why -- so it was business as usual that they popped up today unannounced.
Our yard looks a lot better after their visit.
3. Debbie decided to retire for the night before tonight's episode of Peter Gunn ended. I watched the episode's closing street gunfight in the show's unnamed wharf side town. Then, for about a half an hour, I watched a chunk of Game 5 of the 1994 Eastern Conference Finals between the Knicks and Pacers. I crapped out after a while, but it was fun watching those players, listening to Marv Albert, and remembering some of what was going on in my life in the uncertain days in early June of 1994.
Here's another one of Stu's limericks:
For sure it sees time now are hard.
Being told you should not leave your yard.
Inconvenient it's true,
But it's better for you.
Than when you cooked or cleaned using lard!
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