Moving into summer. I can’t remember a more pleasant May for fine weather. June brought the hot weather, up into the 90’s. We thought of putting in the AC, but it only lasted two days. Now we’re back to another long run of perfectly pleasant days in the mid-seventies.
Been busy doing our best version of living the suburban legend. Last weekend was the Memorial Day holiday and a three-day weekend. Saturday we went for a hike up Mt. Hook. Sunday I went for a bike ride thru Nature Study Woods, then we went to a barbecue on Long Island hosted by Nick and Lisa.
This weekend Jeannie and Michelle and I did another rail trail ride, this time 13 miles for me and 9 for them. I got an app for my phone that tracks me distance, time and elevation change when I go for a ride, and shows it on a map.
I’ve been giving my old mustang some TLC. Over the last few weekends I washed, waxed, and buffed the whole thing, something I hadn’t done since before the pandemic. Then the weekend I cleaned the glass and interior, and polished everything up. Now it just gleams!
Summer is the season for endless yard work. Over the past couple weekends I trimmed our big hedge row, then the two giant forsythia shrubs and some of our evergreens. Next weekend is trimming back the willow boughs hanging into our yard from our neighbor’s tree. Then maybe we’ll have a break and can do just mowing and watering. Or maybe something else will have grown in by then.
I bought a new oven in the springtime at an auction at my job. It’s been sitting in my garage, but this weekend finally schlepped it up the stairs, hooked up the gas supply and hauled out the old one. Glad that job is done with. Michelle has already baked a batch of cookies and declared the new oven to be much more accurate and superior in every way. Only problem is it doesn’t quite back up all the way to the wall because they’ve changed oven design over the years, and there’s no empty space in the back of the oven to accommodate the spot where the gas pipe comes up out of the floor. So now we have to call a contractor to see if wee can get that taken care of.
A bunch of things still in-progress. I’ve been working on a summer playlist of 90’s songs. Continuing in my home studio with my song A Plague of Frogs. And, increasing in importance daily, the annual Origami USA convention is coming up at the end of June, so I’ve been folding new stuff, planning my exhibit, signing up to teach classes, and helping the convention committee with the class schedule. More on all this as it unfolds.