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The Harpoon 5 Miler is my absolute favorite road race of the year. And for many reasons: I love the course — you start at the brewery in South Boston and head through the industrial park, by the cruise terminal and down towards the harbor. There’s a section where you do a loop around aContinue reading “Day 62 — Sunday, May 17, 2020 or today was my favorite road race of the year”

When we were back in normal times, my husband and I used to walk up to a local bar on Friday nights. This bar tries to keep local craft beer on tap, so we’d hang out in the bar area and have a good beer (or two!) before we headed over to the Irish pubContinue reading “Day 61 — Saturday, May 16, 2020 or an ode to pub cheese”

I can NOT believe that I have been stuck at home self quarantining for 60 days! And the time has flown by — I really can’t believe that it’s been 60 days. So today I “celebrated” by planting seeds in one of my new raised garden beds: How amazing does that look?? Six rows ofContinue reading “Day 60 — Friday, May 15, 2020 or OMG –it’s been 60 days?!?!!”

Yes, it is! My husband did a fabulous job on the three raised garden beds! He finished them last week, and then we (or he because I didn’t do a good job the first time) leveled out the garden enclosure and placed the three beds in their new home. On Tuesday, I ordered compost loamContinue reading “Day 59 — Thursday, May 14, 2020 or my garden is going to look amazing this year!”

Yes, we are! Tonight we did a virtual beer tasting sponsored by our local Irish pub and Founders out of Michigan. We picked up 4 different Founders beers and two meals from our local pub and logged into Zoom for the tasting at 7 p.m.! Look how fancy we are! Even though I have beenContinue reading “Day 58 — Wednesday, May 13, 2020 or my husband and I are becoming more virtual!”

Ugh, it’s been so darn slow — I walk away for a little bit and it freezes up, it’s been so annoying! Anyway, so today I was scheduled for a cleaning at my dentist’s office. My original appointment was at the end of March, but when COVOD-19 hit big time, they called and rescheduled itContinue reading “Day 57 — Tuesday, May 12, 2020 or my computer is having trouble keeping up with all my new time at home”

So at 4 p.m. this afternoon, my husband looked out our front door and the male house finch was sitting on our outside front door light — yes, where the nest USED to be! Where it’s been for at least two weeks without anyone sitting in it or visiting it. And now 24 hours afterContinue reading “Day 56 — Monday, May 11, 2020 or it’s Monday…again!”

It’s the end of another weekend, and I’m not exactly sure what I did this weekend. I slept in a little bit (how are we so tired?? It must be boredom!), did my usual weekend chores, went on a run this afternoon, called my mom for Mother’s Day…oh, I did clean out two drawers ofContinue reading “Day 55 — Sunday, May 10, 2020 or here we are again…”

My back has been hurting all week — who knows if it’s from a workout I did in the past couple of days, our old mattress that we so need to replace or the chair in my new home office where I am now spending all my days. So I bought myself a present: TaContinue reading “Day 54 — Saturday, May 9, 2020 or I bought myself a present today!”

Yes, it is! And what are we going to do this weekend?? Looks like a bunch of the same ol’ thing! Yay! The temperature is going to drop into the 30s tonight and some areas might get snow. I have no idea how that happens in May, but I guess it’s happening. Just another oddityContinue reading “Day 53 — Friday, May 8, 2020 or hey, it’s the weekend again!”