semi-random flotsam
Also accurate and alliterative: Saturday, soggy, sodden
We get on the road at 7:30 am. The GPS thinks we could make it in 6 hours but I can only think it’s imagining it will somehow stay 7:30am on a rainy Saturday morning the whole way.
Continue reading “Scenic southbound”The breakfast buffet is no longer self-service. It’s allowed to be unmasked to eat there. My family congregates and it’s so easy to forget – to genuinely forget – that COVID was and is.
Continue reading “To remember together”The trek restarts in the morning mostly with just trying to navigate the mess of traffic around NYC. Considering that not everyone has returned to work, this seems unfathomable.
Continue reading “Nostalgic northbound (2)”May and June tend to be lovely months here — usually pleasant, not too wet, not too hot — and so just tons of people get married in those months.
Continue reading “Recent, Current, Upcoming”When I moved in, I knew I had the red tree out front, but right along the property line were two other trees I wasn’t so sure about.
Continue reading “Before and after”All of my company’s US office were planned to open for in-office work by this week.
Continue reading “Brief Reprieve”Because I know there are people who were worried…
Continue reading “Quick update”I suppose everyone has their daily routines. A list, formal or more likely informal, of things that get addressed. Even an order in which the morning ablutions are attended to (ever gotten out of the shower having forgotten to wash your hair because you didn’t do things in the usual order? That’s not just me, right?)
Continue reading “Getting through the Daily”I’d been outside an unusual amount of the weekend, trimming hedges and whacking weeds (and the ivy overtaking the universe back yard).
