So, here it my view of one, fairly typical day. Maybe a little nicer than most, because we treated ourselves to coffee.
We're leaving the house at about 9:00 a.m. It rained during the night, no surprise there. Note the drops of water still clinging to the leaves of the palms. Jeanne and I are going to walk to Henderson and, laden with books and groceries, take the bus back.
This corner lot used to have a single family home with a huge garden on it. Now, two large homes are going up. They might be apartments. We'll see.
We are on Sturges Road here, approaching Swanson. Traffic is heavy at this rush hour moment. We'll take a right up ahead. We'll walk about 1/2 mile on Swanson and then another 1/2 mile on Great North Road.
You know me. I have got to try new things. On our way downtown, we stopped briefly at the Bulk Barn, and I noticed this sea salt with bits of dried kelp in it.
Stopping at the library.
And at Gloria Jeans. We needed a boost of caffeine.
Two small flat whites perked us right up.
There is shopping to do almost every day.
This bus stop has recently been improved with the addition of three sections of enclosed seating. We're waiting for 143 that comes by at 7 and 37 minutes past each hour.
Our bus arriving.
Once we're home and the groceries are put away, it's time for a bit of diversion.
I love playing Free Cell. After our busy morning, I like to sit down to several games.
It continues to be a beautiful day
Today was the first really nice day for quite some time. A day to sit on the deck for a while and watch the clouds go by, and watch how they change as they go. This photo and the next three were each taken about a minute apart.
They started their solar-powered dance marathon on 3-28-16. That day, the boys and I had each counted the number of wiggles per 10 seconds and averaged the result. That worked out to be 25.75 wiggles per 10 seconds or 154.5 wiggles per minute. I then kept track of the hours they wiggled each day and recorded it, for months and months, until they reached 10 million.
They have both continued to wiggle, on their designated place on a western facing window, right up to the present day, and show no signs of stopping. I figure that they passed the 40,000,000 wiggles points on August 28, 2017. An amazing feat for a toy that retailed for $1.99. And I am quite sure that my calculation has been, if anything, on the conservative side. If they had been carefully monitored the entire time, I think the count would be somewhat higher yet.
As they continue to dance. I'll keep you all posted.
Tonight, Allie and the boys are going to dinner at McDonald's for the soccer end-of-season get together. Jeanne and I are on our own and plan to have left-overs for dinner. It'll be an easy meal. No prep, no clean up. Well, hardly any.
So, that's it. A look at one day, and a fairly ordinary one.
But, I'm forgetting one thing. We did get some books from the library and I started on one of them. It's The Murder of Mary Russell by Laurie King. If any of you are Sherlock Holmes fans, this one might be one you'd like to try. Actually, there are several by this author, and you should really start with one written earlier in the series than this one. Mary Russell is Sherlock's wife. You didn't know he was married? I didn't either until recently when I discovered this author. (actually, Jeanne found her) -djf
I enjoy your numeric observations. So really, when you posted this entry on 9/28/17 it was your 24,077th day - and you've got 748 days on me! There are roughly 532 days until I plan to leave for my next overseas adventure to NZ.
ReplyDeleteA few months ago you and Jeanne had been suggesting and encouraging me to write a blog of my own and at the time I was considering all sorts of clever names for it with a numeric theme. One of those was "5432!". So what would that indicate? why a countdown of course! or '5:43 and 2 years to go' indicating a hint of anticipation - but then that goal would always be 2 years away... O well, such a name would be a little too enigmatic but maybe a good one for a single blog post?
Well, I digress and now getting back to the appreciation of your current post and cover picture: I love that T-shirt! I bet you get lots of smiles when you wear it. I'm glad the bus stop downtown is now covered so you don't have to wait in the weather. I noticed your Pac'nSave had a banner for 'loose change week' - would that be for some charitable cause? Also noticed your wet streets and how they gave way to a gorgeous day with animated poofy clouds - I thought your cloud looked like a seahorse.
Finally, I noticed your featured book was accompanied by a couple fidget spinners... So in closing, here's looking at you kid!
Coming up with an exact number of days is rather tricky and open to some discussion. I actually posted this entry on MY 29/09/17, so that would give me an extra day, here, but clearly not there. Hmmm....
ReplyDeleteLoose change week just meant that there were deals for just a couple of dollars. Two dollar coins are used widely here.
I'm glad you're thinking about doing a blog. I think you'd do a good one. You certainly have lots of subjects available between Lansing, your home, neighborhood, up North, and so on. Good luck with that.