6 weeks into social distancing and Jan and I are starting to fall into a routine. If you want to call mostly waiting a routine. Jan walks several times a week with a friend, keeping their distance from each other and wearing masks. I ride my bike most every day with a mask also. Those are our two big outings from the house.
Two weeks ago I started to do some yard work, trimming up the bamboo palms in the back yard. These things grow like weeds and drop palms fronds all year long. I don't really like them but they do provide a good screen between us and the neighbor behind us.
Well I started cutting some of the smaller palm trees down and filling trash cans. I got two filled ready for trash day and then we got the news that Safety Harbor was no longer picking up yard waste on Thursday. Well that's a kicker. I got trash with no where to go. So I took part one can full of palms and cut them smaller and hid it in our big trash can hiding the leaves and such under several trash bags. The trash men took it! I was sweating that I would have to go out and pull all the palms out. So next week I'm going to sneak some more yard waste into the trash can. This may take a while to clean up the back yard but I got the time. Plenty of time.
As I said in an earlier post I have been making cloth face masks. I'm getting pretty good at it now I just wish I could get my sewing machine to do a zig-zag stitch. I'm not sure what is wrong I suspect it needs a good cleaning and oiling. But I'm not sure how to do that and I'm afraid if I give it a try I'll break it and I don't want to go out to a sewing machine shop right. So I'll just sew along with a straight stitch.
We have been having Zoom and Google Duo calls with the kids, family and friends. That breaks up the monotony and gives us something to look forward to. We really don't have anything else on the calendar for the near future.
On Sunday our Church Holy Trinity Episcopal posts a service online that we can watch along with the weekly bulletin. Father Danial has been doing Morning Prayer each week except for the Easter Service. I have always liked the Morning Prayer service. When I was younger and worked as an acolyte at our Church in Jacksonville we had Communion once a month and Morning Prayer all the other Sundays. So Sundays are really our big day each week and Jan and I go to Church on our sofa at the regular time that the service would normally be held. Anything to make life a little more normal.
Two weeks ago I started to do some yard work, trimming up the bamboo palms in the back yard. These things grow like weeds and drop palms fronds all year long. I don't really like them but they do provide a good screen between us and the neighbor behind us.
Well I started cutting some of the smaller palm trees down and filling trash cans. I got two filled ready for trash day and then we got the news that Safety Harbor was no longer picking up yard waste on Thursday. Well that's a kicker. I got trash with no where to go. So I took part one can full of palms and cut them smaller and hid it in our big trash can hiding the leaves and such under several trash bags. The trash men took it! I was sweating that I would have to go out and pull all the palms out. So next week I'm going to sneak some more yard waste into the trash can. This may take a while to clean up the back yard but I got the time. Plenty of time.
As I said in an earlier post I have been making cloth face masks. I'm getting pretty good at it now I just wish I could get my sewing machine to do a zig-zag stitch. I'm not sure what is wrong I suspect it needs a good cleaning and oiling. But I'm not sure how to do that and I'm afraid if I give it a try I'll break it and I don't want to go out to a sewing machine shop right. So I'll just sew along with a straight stitch.
On Sunday our Church Holy Trinity Episcopal posts a service online that we can watch along with the weekly bulletin. Father Danial has been doing Morning Prayer each week except for the Easter Service. I have always liked the Morning Prayer service. When I was younger and worked as an acolyte at our Church in Jacksonville we had Communion once a month and Morning Prayer all the other Sundays. So Sundays are really our big day each week and Jan and I go to Church on our sofa at the regular time that the service would normally be held. Anything to make life a little more normal.
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