Day 41 of Phase 3 - California Covid spike
Beaches are closed for the holiday weekend. In-door dining bars, wineries, and museums are closed throughout California for the next three weeks.
Sunday. 7/6/20
7:30-10:00 – The dog is barking so I go downstairs to take her out and give her cheese. I grab my coffee and go back to bed so I can catch up on the news for the next two hours. I read Real Clear Politics and listen to PBS Newshour segments, the BBC World Service, Global News and Today Explained.
10:30-11:30 – I have Greek plain yogurt, mixed with apples, walnuts, and honey for breakfast and water a few of my plants. I straighten the kitchen, as usual, then read online news.
11:30-1:30 – Shower. Light make-up. I skip exercising today and listen to Air Talk and Political Gabfest while I get ready. I eat two turkey meatballs.
L. and R. go to Little Tokyo to eat at an outdoor restaurant and spend the day in disgusting downtown LA.
1:30 – B. arrives and we go to Altadena to lay by the pool at the house his daughter and her husband [J. and R.] bought. As an aside, my community pool is still closed. The house is a 1930s/1940s home, in an older, established neighborhood, with wide streets and large trees in a really beautiful area. It’s a definite fixer-upper, with great bones, and a pool in the backyard that’s been maintained and cared for since it was installed. The two of them are young and up for the challenge and already had the house re-plumbed. They were working very hard and on several projects while B. and I lounged by the pool. I felt a little guilty about it, but they didn’t care.
I love gardens and yards, in general. The outdoor space of a home is typically what’s meaningful for me and will determine whether or not I purchase – it’s that important. Although J. and R.’s backyard needs a lot of TLC, it’s beautiful and not hard to see the “vision” and how it will transform. The pool, as stated earlier, is perfect. J. and R. bought two chaise lounges from Ikea that they put together earlier that morning, so B. and I could lay out and, of course, we brought our “beach kit” and B. set up the umbrella in a bucket of sand that he brought along for just that purpose. I packed a spinach salad, chips, and cherries for myself, along with a cooler of Prosecco (cans) and B. and I. hang out by the pool for several hours.
5:30-8:00 - Around 5:00, we order dinner from Dominicos and pick it up – I get the angel hair pasta – and we sit at a table that B. brought from his home for J. and eat and talk.
9:00-11:30 – Home and B. and I watch two episodes of the Unsolved Mysteries series I watched a couple days ago. I’m somewhat of an UFO abduction aficionado, so we watch that episode and another episode about an unsolved murder. L. comes home around 10:30. B. leaves at 11:30 and I go to bed.
A much better day after yesterday’s 4th of July disaster.