Potato salad, made on the 4th, lasting a few days. The burgers lasted the 1st through the 4th. My holiday feasts are kind of drawn out in a single-person household.
We've finally got some rain, the past week. The fireworks on the 4th were interrupted by one of the storms, but it didn't stop the people who were determined to shoot off all they bought. Some of them were out as soon as the rain lessened. Others waited and shot them on the 5th.
The drought monitor report showed us going from "Exceptional" drought to "Extreme" drought (that's a lesser level of drought, in case you're confused by the levels). This report did not include the rain we got over the fourth, so hoping that next week it will be better (extreme is still not so great).
Thursday was a particularly confusing day. Wednesday evening I got a text from my plumbing firm saying they would arrive between 8 and 8:30 Thursday morning. I quick like a bunny texted my trainer to cancel my session with him, as getting my water softener back was important to me, and worthy of not re-scheduling immediately.
I got myself up on Thursday morning in time to shovel things around, especially down in the laundry/furnace area of the house. And then... the plumber didn't show up. I busied myself with other tasks... filling out the medication list for next Monday's eye appointment, for example. When an hour and a half had passed (and I could have been to the trainer and on my way home by then), I called to find out what was up. Sure enough, the text was sent in error! Bummer. For this, I missed my workout!
Then the phone blipped with notification of prescriptions ready to pick up. Off to the grocery store that contains my pharmacy, and pick up a few other essentials (bananas, with thoughts of LeanJean6).
New game that has my attention, thanks to kid sis Alicia: How many US Cities can you name? I'm hooked. Don't log in, and don't save, and as long as you go back on the same device you can keep on adding cities. So far, I'm up to 339 cities, containing 23.5% of the US urban population. Lots of folks live in smaller cities. I have at least one city in all 50 states, and I've got all the capitals... plus having lived in three states gave me some knowledge of local area smaller towns. Then I remember that Grandpa came from city X or city Y, we visited cousins in city Z (or town or village). It also gives you interesting statistics, like which of the cities you have named are the largest, the smallest, the rarest among players (the town my son grew up in is the rarest in my own list... with only 0.03% of players having included it in their lists). Don't you just love a good mind stretcher?
Oh, and of the five smallest towns I named, they are all in my home state! The smallest with a whopping population of 51. I will keep adding to it as time goes on.
Next week is going to be too much peopling, so I'll be storing up energy over the weekend. Next week I have the eye doctor, the plumber who did not come on Thursday will be here Wednesday (they got the part in on Friday), and on Saturday there's another P-5 family outing, to Robber's Cave. Add in the normal workouts with the trainer, and I'm pretty well booked up.
I'll leave off with a refreshing photo of this morning's downpour.
Life is good. Spark on!
