7 am
And so
the summer actually begins. Yesterday K was home all day, but today, and for
the rest of the week I will be alone. Well, I lie, as I think that L is coming
home Wed for a few days. And Saturday G moves out to Northampton. So it is not
as though things will be even and consistent and homogenous from now through
August. In fact the summer will be very jumbled. July 6-14 is the bike trip.
July 24 – Aug 5 (maybe – but I may be off a week) is the 2 LSSE classes.
But let
us consider that this is the start. Sort of. Unfortunately it is supposed to
rain all day, as it did yesterday, so I won’t be able to do anything in terms
of cleaning the sun room. That will have to wait until it is sunny so that I can
take boxes out and put them on the deck to go through and organize. Same thing
for the garage, it is harder if I cannot put anything outside. But I can still
start in. I can list things on Freecycle! I was going to say that I could go to
the dump, but I told G she could take the car today. So no dump.
Yesterday
was a bit of a wash so to speak. First off, after I did manage to get done the
things I mentioned, I was just going to do some actual spinning when a friend
called. I managed to feed the bunnies
while we talked, though the headset thing really does not work. It cuts out too
much. It is frustrating and makes the
conversation unnerving. As is trying to use my previously lovely mp3. The headset
connection is no longer good so one ear then the other then both cut out if I move
around, meaning I can’t really listen while I do things like feed buns, do
yardwork, etc. and so what is the point? I think there is another mp3 somewhere’s
about, though I think it needs a cord to attach to the computer. And I don’t actually
know where it is. Then there is K’s ipod which he uses like 2 times a year. Maybe
I could borrow that.
Back to
yesterday. After I got off the phone and finished the buns, by then it was
11:30 and had started raining lightly. The plan had been to bike to NoHo, get
lunch, bike back in time to stop at the farm to pick up our share. So we
bundled for rain and basically did that. The ride was fine. It rained, but was
not too cold. I wore K’s blue parka, he wore a regular full raincoat. We went
first to the Northampton bike shop and I
was very grateful to the guy because he kept telling us we did not really need
things (like springs) that K kept asking about. Anyway, we looked at raingear
and gloves (the guy said we didn’t really need them and he never uses them) and
bought back racks since the ones we have are ancient and will not fit on our
bikes. I’ll need to see if they would fit on any of the bikes and if not, get
rid of them. Anyway, I can now put the panniers on my bike. We then went into
town and decided to eat at the Pho restaurant. I really wanted to go somewhere I’d
never been. I thought it was very tasty, and hot beef noodle soup was just
perfect. Except then we left, it was raining harder, and biking on a stomach
full of soup was kind of sucky. On the trip, we will have to time things
better. When we stop for lunch, we should eat first off, then site-see, or
wander, or whatever else we want to do. So the ride home wasn’t so great and I was
cold and kind of miserable. At East St I split off and went to the farm. Managed
to fit the share into my backpack and biked home via Bay rd which was also
pretty miserable in the rain. Got home, got changed, then drove up to get K who
had biked on to Laughing Dog to leave his bike for a tune up. Of course I am
getting anxious about all the incidental expenses….. anyway, once we got home I
was really beat. I did a bit of this and that, don’t even remember (oh, I made
cocoa and toast), and K left to meet 2 clients at 5:30. I dragged the wheel in
so I could spin, pulled together a salad (made tahini dressing) for supper, but
really I was too tired and not hungry, so I just went to bed once K got home
around 8:30. And yes, we do need a new mattress because my back is acting up
again – those twinges like I was getting before.
Ok,
time to actually get up (I am writing in bed!) and start the summer……
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