Down to the last one.

The final Monday of the 2021/2022 school year, oh how time flies when you forget about all those endless long days from before. And yet, here we are. 3.5 days from the end of term, oh my! We’ve got a cooler day today for a bit of a change up. It’s lovely outside. Sunny, with partial cloud cover and not quite 20°C. An intermittent breeze and lots of bird song.

Actually had to cut my grass today too. Well, more so the weeds and crabbe grass that grows regardless of rain water. Everything else is heading towards the beige/yellow crispy straw that we keep short for eight or nine weeks. It’ll go green again come September/October & November.

It’s a Monday, which means yet another swing at the Domestic Duties inherent to household maintenance. Laundry, dishes, tidying up, vacuuming & mopping the floors. I tackle toilets, sinks and the tub as needed, so every couple of days with these youngling savages that I live with. Also known as children under eight years of age. I foresee a great purge come September, as we have far too much stuff yet again. I keep on clearing it out, and they continue to bring new stuff in. Maddening! Madness! Miscarriage of justice I say.

Heading towards another long weekend which means fire works, food trucks and local town events. Perhaps even a funnel cake to look forward too! Icecream, powdered sugar, and all the fried waffle batter strings you can ingest before acid reflux kicks in your throat. Delicious! Truly some gourmet shit fit for kings.

I am indulging in a late breakfast. Had errands to run after school drop off. Then I started laundry before heading out side to mow the lawn. So I’m now both hungry & thirsty after working a bit without eating yet. Not as bad as shoveling sixteen plus inches of deep wet snow without having eaten first. I now know that that is a huge no-no for me as I am middle aged ( or there abouts) and my body doesn’t take kindly to that sort of shock/strain. The truce with the fridge remains as tentative as ever. Risked use of the ice machine which threatened a cascading failure like before, but we were watching, and backed off, shut down the ice maker and staved off disaster. It was tense there for a few hours. Luckily it did not dampen our date for our wedding anniversary and movie night. Much obliged Kitchenaid refrigerator.