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I received this package in the mail today from Square and AmEx.  If I had an actual brick-and-mortar store, it would be helpful.  But hey, it came with an enormous bottle of hand sanitizer, so that’s cool.

A fantastic view of the rainbow while we were out paddling on the pond tonight after dinner.

A good way into the hike up Goat Hill at the Blackstone River and Canal Heritage State Park, we came across these painted rocks.  It feels like something a local troop of Girl Scouts would do.

If you’ve never been to Purgatory Chasm in Sutton MA, I recommend it.  It’s a really giant hole in the ground where you can go and climb and hike around.  I was happy to notice that all the other people we saw were at least wearing sneakers (as opposed to flip-flips or something equally ridiculous for a place like this).

When you’re out in the woods,  if there’s one thing you want to make sure you have, it’s an old-school, wall mounted pencil sharpener.  I suppose we could use it on marshmallow sticks?

My vote-by-mail packet arrived today.  Now I have to do some homework to see who I want to replace Joe Kennedy (because he’s deserting us to run for Senate, the jerk).

A local group is trying to make masks for students, and asked for help from the community with ironing, cutting and sewing the material.  I actually kind of like to iron; I appreciate the immediate results of it.  So I offered to help with ironing, and it’s feeding the instant gratification monkey in my brain very nicely.

 

Between aging (ugh, what a terrible word) and year of taking coricosteroids, I have developed thin skin (literally, not figuratively), especially on my hands and forearms. If I manage to cut myself (in this case, during the dangerous activity of folding laundry) I can’t use a regular band-aid; removing it will actually tear the skin again.  So now I use these self-sticking bandages that come in super fun colors.

Doug and I went for a lovely paddle down in West Roxbury today. Saw lots of ducks, geese, shorebirds, and a few herons.  Given that I took this on my pocket camera, and not Doug’s big-boy camera with the giant lens, I’m pretty happy with this photo.

lawn sign