“Remoted” – Day 62 (Sunday)

Today almost made up for yesterday’s squandering. It was leisurely and relaxed without being wasted.

There was morning coffee (of course) and the delivery of more coffee (thanks Amazon Prime!). There was also the ordering of unglamorous household necessities from Amazon – dog biscuits, paper towels, dishwasher drying agent – so today failed in the financial measure of daily success, but that was the only deficiency to the day.

The neighborhood was alive with the sounds of yard work in the lovely weather. There was leaf blowing, chain sawing, and illegal dumping over the embankment to Beaver Brook from the party house across the street (despite the "No Dumping per Order LPD" sign immediately outside their yard). If there were a neighbor of the year award, the occupants of that house would never be contenders.

There was concrete work and edge trimming from one house next to me, and lawn mowing and pool prep and cleanup from the house on the other side. All this activity shamed me into working in my own yard. Old Sparky was fired up for mowing, followed by raking up the clippings and now my arms feel like limp noodles. Thank goodness I succumbed to the need to not have the shittiest looking yard at the end of the street. The back yard grass was a bit high from skipping mowing last week and a few more days would have been a nightmare to deal with. The weeds in the front yard still haven’t come in, so the look there is more dirt lot, embellished with random clumps of faux grass and a flower bed. The cigarette butts, candy wrappers, and fast food litter that that blow over from across the street frequently downgrade the look to that of an abandoned city lot.

When the outdoor work was done, there was the completion of the Sherlock Holmes puzzle against the backdrop of “High Fidelity” with Zoe Kravitz on the TV. That series has some great music, which makes sense as it's set in a record shop. The puzzle features much text about the great detective and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and was an interesting read. 

Smothered chili and rice.

Lunch was canned chili tossed with rice, then smothered in queso. There is more (of course there is) so the next incarnation may be stuffed in a pepper, topped with cheddar, and baked. Meal prep for the week focused on what is already jammed into the freezer. There is no point complicating a full freezer by cooking and freezing more stuff. 

If the weather stays nice, it might finally be time to put away the winter clothes and pull out the spring and summer. (Dare to dream!) Maybe next weekend, which opens with a vacation day and closes with a holiday, will include inspiration for the wardrobe change.