Monday, October 19, 2020

Blessings on a cold and wet Monday in the year of hunkering down


  • Car arrives home with a trunk full of most of the groceries we ordered, feeling like a tiny holiday, possibly a remembered childhood Christmas, or the arrival of the Wells Fargo Wagon in “The Music Man.” 
  • Basement shuffleboard court continues to entertain and inspire competitive spirit between two humans.
  • The smell of a searing roast in onions and golden mushroom soup, among other things, delights the eventual diners.
  • That moment the cook is finally able to stop the “dinner bell,” also known as the hallway smoke alarm, from beeping its shrill, monotone, three-note sequence by using multiple fans: 2 ceiling, 2 exhaust. 
  • The pressure to make money from home, competing with those half her age and twice as able to work quickly, is gone forever for this woman.