How Was Your Day?

[AeroFan_07]

GHT - that's a really cool way to be distracted in these rather difficult times. I know you from the Outerwear section, and actually have an order in with Carrie (Thurston Brothers) so you know what that means. She was asking me today about a fit jacket, even though she is rather confident about the dimensions we have shared for the new one. I replied back, let's just place the order. Here we are in the midst of Covid-19, let's just take the risk!

Bushman, I live just over the river to the West. I will make one more pilgramidge to Home Depot tomorrow for home supplies (flooring) that I am in the middle of right now in my home. It's 3 minuites away and not across the river. But I am waiting for the day this happens here too. Not that I have been out, not moved a car or the truck since Wednesday evening. But it's just unusual times - hope your hardware store is able to keep it going through this time.

Maybe I'll dress a bit unusual for that one errend tomorrow....

 

[GHT]

I live just over the river to the West. I will make one more pilgrimage to Home Depot tomorrow for home supplies (flooring) that I am in the middle of right now in my home.

Thanks for the compliment, I'm glad it made you smile. How I envy your skills at tackling repairs around the home, I'm so inept that my wife has dubbed, DIY, as in Do It Yourself, for me that's Don't Involve Yourself.

We have had a community information card posted through our letter box. There's an offer of help if we have to isolate ourselves, there's also a request for help to make sure everyone is safe. On the strength of that my wife called on an elderly neighbour, she's a widow and must be feeling anxious and so alone. The neighbour reassured my missus that she is in constant touch with her daughter, adding that her grown up grandchildren keep in touch too. But my wife must have hit a nerve because the neighbour did admit that she felt, as she put it, fenced in.

"Let's make some tea," my missus suggested. They sat drinking their tea, my wife saw a wistful look come across the old lady's face. "Penny for your thoughts," she said. The old lady said that she was remembering the war, although she was just a child, how everyone pulled together. "Well," said my wife, "well, what?" Answered the lady. My wife crouched down in front of her, and started to sing.

"Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above
Don't fence me in
Let me ride through the wide open country that I love
Don't fence me in
Let me be by myself in the evening breeze
Listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees
Send me off forever but I ask you please
Don't fence me in.
Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle
Underneath the western skies
On my cayuse, let me wander over yonder
Till I see the mountains rise
I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences
Gaze at the moon 'til I lose my senses
Can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences
Don't fence me in."

The lady quickly joined in, she told my missus that song had been a favourite in her youth, singing it now had made her day, My wife said that it had made her day too. And when my missus returned and regaled the tale to me, it made my day as well.

 

[AeroFan_07]

Wonderful! Well spoken, and sung indeed...

I was very honoered to spend the week after Christmas in a lovely place, the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Did not realize at the time how wonderful the memory of it would still be in my mind. Speaking of not being fenced in. I have included a photo that I hope is encouarging to you and any viewing it as well.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Lovely! Looks ideal. We had a brief blast of spring weather over the past few days. But now winter is mounting a rear-guard action. Temps dived more than 10 degrees today, and we might get a dusting of snow Monday night. But then it is supposed to be up to almost 70 degrees F by Next weekend. Actually a nice day today. My wife and I walked into the village for some fresh bread. Then we made a nice beef & mushroom stew for this evening and washed it down with a really excellent Margaux. Sitting in the dark now with wine and candles, playing on our electronics.

 

[GHT]

Speaking of not being fenced in. I have included a photo that I hope is encouarging to you and any viewing it as well.
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Our forest home came about after we had spent an extremely enjoyable week renting a cabin, not dissimilar to the one in your photo. Heading back to London my wife said that she could happily live there. Forest properties are rare and very expensive, but you can live on the periphery far more economically. Walk to the end of the road that we live in and you walk straight into the forest.

Actually a nice day today.

It was a really nice day here too, if those temperatures that you say are predicted actually materialise, it's going to make isolation all the more unbearable. It was so warm today I dusted off the battered old Biltmore.

 

[M Brown]

It's been raining here for the past 4 days. I spread fertilizer/weed killer over 3 acres nine days ago, then the next day the weather turned to a light drizzle, which was perfect for getting it into the soil.

After a few days of on and off drizzle, the rain came. We live on lake front property and the water level is up a good 3 feet from the rain.
And the fertilizer did it's thing so now the grass is thick and tall but the ground is too wet to mow.

30 min ago the sun finally came out. 24 hours or so of no rain and I think I might be able to mow. My mowing takes about 90 min on a John Deere zero turn mower with a 5' mowing deck. It's good therapy.

 

[AeroFan_07]

^^ Zero Turn mowing is indeed good therepy. Looking forward to getting my small one out later this spring - still 2-3 weeks out.

Yes very fortunately, while I live in town now (first time in over 15 years of living in an urban area) there's a major bicycle/run, walk path 5 driveways away. It leads on one side to a forest & golf course, so it's great to be able to get out away from everything, there is a stream running along it as well. So while it's not the Northwoods, it'll do just fine.

 

[Worf]

I saw two wonderful things here that made me smile today.

1. Flowers/Tulips pushing their way into the world. Pandemic or naught life goes on!

2. While taking my "Constitutional" I passed a group of College Students sitting on their front porch (well inside the mandated 6 foot limit) and they were all wearing big, bright bunny ears! I gave em the double thumbs up and there were smiles all round!

I love life!

Worf

 

[AeroFan_07]

^^ Amen!

 

[Harp]

^^^ AMEN!
Arrived this morning late due to a transportation issue but still early.
Eagerly awaited the coffee café to open for my mandatory first cup of joe.
Decided not to do any work at all today after the first sip.
Sat and goofed off on the internet, let the world pass me by, not a care in the world.

 

[ChiTownScion]

Today has been not so bad, really. The last few were a little rough, on one front.

Ever start thinking about a casual acquaintance, some who was not really close enough to you to have been a friend, but who left a lasting impression that was generally favorable? I got to thinking about someone like that recently and thus commenced the Google search. On a whim, really.

I never dated her, but I liked to have meals with her in our college dorm dining room. She'd always be in a dress, while 99% of the other coeds would be wearing jeans or overalls, and she had a sense of bearing. Our views on religion and politics were oil and water, so I suppose that we never were meant to be close friends. But we shared a mutual respect, and that was good enough for me.

Her last semester of senior year was the first of my junior year, so we didn't really pal around that much. She was soon off to grad school and we exchanged letters for a bit: last I heard she was engaged. And that was well over forty years ago.

Anyway... I found out that she'd passed away in 2018. Her mother had passed away in 2016, and her dad died in early 2018. Even more ironic: her husband died in 2019.

Felt very sad over this, mainly because she really didn't get to enjoy retirement or her new status as a grandparent. Seems so unfair, but life often is just that.

 

[CatsCan]

Felt very sad over this

There is a way to regret, never to have done something until it was too late. But this way you should not be enticed to continue, I truely believe. You have parted in mutual respect, something sometimes not even married people can claim when they have to part. Who knows how things would have developed, if... At her place over the rainbow, where she is now, she will feel touched and thankful to know that you remember her after 40 years as someone you liked very much below the surface, at places where it really counts, despite political or religious differences and all that crap that seperates too many people already actually.. Don't feel too sad. It is actually very good to know what one is able to feel for somebody. Too many heartless people on this planet already.

 

[belfastboy]

And here I am still in my PJ's, realizing it is almost lunch......reading 'How Was Your Day'......damn, I guess I better get it started.

 

[Turnip]

Close to bore out at work today, tomorrow’s a day off again.
Very good weather forecast so I’ll take a nice long walk downtown and back, visiting „my“ so very nice hairdresser lady what I’m really looking forward to.

 

[Turnip]

Funny, working overtime during short hours...

 

[Harp]

Illini Third Tier Mitigation sequester today. Intended to read Jon Meacham's The Soul of America,
take a look at Hamilton and Madison Federalist essays, touch base with Burke's French Revolution epistle,
reread some Cicero; especially his take on Greek philosophy. Instead, being the lazy ba***rd I is,
spent most of the day surfing the internet. Have been listening to Eileen Farrell Sings Johnny Mercer.
Mercer, Etta, Billy Eckstein all appeal to heart and soul-preferably with appropriate beverage.
Thoroughbred graded stakes still run but the vid hit local track & Off Track Betting.This season's
been ripped off the calendar, so all penchant for weekend profit curtailed. Cannot complain,
of course, though I should be more disciplined and focused.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Spent the day recording an hour-long condensation of "A Christmas Carol," playing all the characters, in dialect, myself. It runs 63:00. It must end on the nose. Three minutes must be cut. That will be how I spend my day tomorrow. Bah, humbug.

 

[GHT]

Today has been an enjoyable, if somewhat lazy day. For the most part I re-read Billy Connolly's autobiography. It's absolutely peppered with profanities yet still an enjoyable read. He tells us that he has Parkinsons, before adding: "And I wish he had kept it ti his ****ing self! He goes on about the cancer in his prostate, the procedure being either a microscopic camera inserted, like a catheter in the penis, or, as Billy so colourfully puts it: "In the back door." He then quips, "not my idea of a fun day, but infinitely more preferable than having a camera crew going down the hole in my ****!"
Italian style steak, mushrooms and tomatoes for dinner this evening, complimented with a large glass of Pinot. A lazy day, but enjoyable all the same.

 

[Harp]

Spent the day recording an hour-long condensation of "A Christmas Carol... Bah, humbug.

The Dickens you say.
Alastair Sim or George C Scott???That is the question. Cannot make up my mind whom I prefer for Scrooge.
Scott's supplication before Marley, but his hesitant accent....
Sim fits Scrooge like a glove.
Or does Scrooge fit Sim like a glove?

Just kidding.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Sim was magnificent -- no better movie Scrooge. But my definitive was always radio's Lionel Barrymore. Nobody ever said "Byaaaaaaaaaagh!" like him.