random thoughts – Day 1,681 – (Thursday) – sunshine and ice cream

Things I didn’t think I would see – Halloween 2024 edition: Summer weather with a temperature of 78 degrees, blue skies, sunshine, and the birds singing their hearts out like a community chorus all afternoon. That was not on the month’s Bingo card. A snowstorm, however, would not have surprised me at all.

The puddle in the driveway has expanded and there was new information on the water situation. I saw the neighbor this morning and we had a chance to chat for the first time since we were both outside tending our front-yard flowers in the early summer. She said the water department came to check the problem and it’s a water main leak that they will be back to address, but no timeline was provided. I filled her in on the history of the puddle going back two owners of her home before her, and how it used to be in the middle of the street but magically relocated to our shared driveway after the paving project.

Ice cream and murder shows.

For the evening’s entertainment, instead of waiting for kids who have never come Trick or Treating here, it was porch lights out and snuggling up with Netflix, just like every other night. Netflix is my longest running relationship, extending back to the earliest days when you made a list and selections arrived as discs in the mail which had to be sent back to get more. I spent a lot less time in front of the screen in those days, but back then I also had a boyfriend and an active social scene, so everything was very different. 

Since returning to Massachusetts, streaming has replaced my dating life and most of my social life, which is probably the scariest thing happening at The BungaLowell this Halloween. The series on the screen tonight was Murder Mindfully, a murder comedy out of Germany, which is reasonably amusing as far as the murdering gangster shows go.

To accompany the murdering show there was a bowl of caramel swirl chocolate chip ice cream with pecans. Somehow, I had forgotten it was bought on Sunday, but it was most enjoyable tonight after having the windows open all day and feeling like it wasn't October at all. The ice cream likely cancelled any healthy effects of the roasted vegetables eaten for lunch. Or maybe the vegetables offset some of the negative aspects of the ice cream. It all averages out.