COVID-19 Virus Shutdown, Day 21
3 weeks in, and the routine is settling. However, am I living my best life?
I woke up thinking about it. I always said if I had more time, I would get more flexible for my martial arts classes. I would lose 20#. I would get stronger physically. I would learn to deal with the crazy things in life and let them slide off my back like water off a duck.
How am I doing on that?
Sometimes I do well. I eat well at least for the first half of the day, i walk the dog. Other days I eat croissants and brownies in the same day.
Today I was greeted with a dead coffee maker. I went into deal with crazy things mode and looked up how to make coffee on the stove in a pot.
In case you're interested here are the steps:
Bring coffee grounds and water to a boil
Boil 2 mins
Take off heat
Let steep 4 mins
Pour coffee through filter/strainer on top of carafe.
Enjoy!
On the gardening front, we have seedling babies!
Before dinner, but after work I was restless. It was so warm out!
So I cleaned up the front yard garden. Just as our city was taking the garbage, recycling, and yard waste (thankyou!) I was filling up another bag of yard waste.
I got the whole 24 feet done this time. And I was able to prune the japanese maple and a pretty fuschia pink rose that I just love. My old craggy vine rose that sits in a huff in the corner of the yard was covered in weeds. She just attracts weeds to her very thorny hide. So I need to pluck her clean every spring.
I noticed that the grass stopped growing where I had giant tomato plants last year. I gotta watch that this time.
The backyard is still a lake, but I was able to take the silver maple branches that fell during the last few windy days up to the tree surround. That's as far as I could go without getting soaked. So glad I cleaned up the doggie doo before it rained. That would've been gross.
At that point I decided I wanted to sit and actually enjoy my crocus and budding hyacinth so I went and got the chairs. I brought out the dog, who promptly peed twice and pooped in my garden. Sigh.
Once I got that cleaned up, he started licking the remaining rotted pumpkin in the garden.
Annoyed, I tied him up closer, away from the garden.
At that point he stalked a robin. And I was getting cold. So we went inside after that.
Dinner was very large scallops from Fresh Approach, risotto using my own homemade chicken stock, and a zucchini - tomatoes in chicken stock, garlic and celery salt and a smidge of butter.
It was so pretty and yummy.
And yet, the kids had Mac and Cheese. Because, Teenagers.
Hope you're staying safe, sane, and healthy!
Vicky
I woke up thinking about it. I always said if I had more time, I would get more flexible for my martial arts classes. I would lose 20#. I would get stronger physically. I would learn to deal with the crazy things in life and let them slide off my back like water off a duck.
How am I doing on that?
Sometimes I do well. I eat well at least for the first half of the day, i walk the dog. Other days I eat croissants and brownies in the same day.
Today I was greeted with a dead coffee maker. I went into deal with crazy things mode and looked up how to make coffee on the stove in a pot.
In case you're interested here are the steps:
Bring coffee grounds and water to a boil
Boil 2 mins
Take off heat
Let steep 4 mins
Pour coffee through filter/strainer on top of carafe.
Clean up grounds in pot
Enjoy!
On the gardening front, we have seedling babies!
Before dinner, but after work I was restless. It was so warm out!
So I cleaned up the front yard garden. Just as our city was taking the garbage, recycling, and yard waste (thankyou!) I was filling up another bag of yard waste.
I got the whole 24 feet done this time. And I was able to prune the japanese maple and a pretty fuschia pink rose that I just love. My old craggy vine rose that sits in a huff in the corner of the yard was covered in weeds. She just attracts weeds to her very thorny hide. So I need to pluck her clean every spring.
I noticed that the grass stopped growing where I had giant tomato plants last year. I gotta watch that this time.
The backyard is still a lake, but I was able to take the silver maple branches that fell during the last few windy days up to the tree surround. That's as far as I could go without getting soaked. So glad I cleaned up the doggie doo before it rained. That would've been gross.
At that point I decided I wanted to sit and actually enjoy my crocus and budding hyacinth so I went and got the chairs. I brought out the dog, who promptly peed twice and pooped in my garden. Sigh.
Once I got that cleaned up, he started licking the remaining rotted pumpkin in the garden.
Annoyed, I tied him up closer, away from the garden.
At that point he stalked a robin. And I was getting cold. So we went inside after that.
Dinner was very large scallops from Fresh Approach, risotto using my own homemade chicken stock, and a zucchini - tomatoes in chicken stock, garlic and celery salt and a smidge of butter.
It was so pretty and yummy.
And yet, the kids had Mac and Cheese. Because, Teenagers.
Hope you're staying safe, sane, and healthy!
Vicky
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