#87 falls for this brave boy.
Home Korean BBQ for Alex’s 26th. Hemingway was overwhelmed by the pool day.
#9: Complete 10 nagging home projects Tackling projects we never would have.
#94: Weigh 165 The Corona Diet
#21: Read 20 additional books Not a huge fan of this one, but I’ll read her upcoming release.
#21: Read 20 additional books Not my favorite of his.
#6: See my Dad in person by Father’s Day Maintained a healthy six foot distance, but finally saw my dad. All was perfect in Hemingway’s world.
#18: Pool Fence Old fence removed.
40th: New Orleans 41st: Key West 42nd: Vegas and the Grand Canyon 43rd: Pearl Jam in Miami 44th: Miami and Cuba 45th: Palm Springs 46th: Austin 47th: sigh
#57:Cook at home for one week (3 times} First time in over a decade.
#9: Complete ten nagging home repairs Sonia spent the day cleaning the brick and priming the front before painting. I, on the other hand, spent the day trying to clean our rat infested attic enough to see why our heater stopped working. I almost had two strokes.
#21: Read an additional 20 books Enjoyed this one.
https://www.myheritage.com/incolor offering it for free during the quarantine. Thanks for the tip Ona.
#57: Dinner at home one full week (3 times) A homemade smash burger to wrap up week two.
Step 1: Clear out the furniture. Step 2: Floor treatment Step three: Strip and patch the walls. Remove the baseboards. #17: Convert guest bedroom into a library/study Because writing has been a bit difficult because of the distractions, I figured now would be as good a time as any to tackle my most ambitious project to date. After watching countless YouTube tutorials, I will attempt…
Eddie’s lyrics for Dance of the Clairvoyants are on point: Expecting perfection Leaves a lot to ignore When the past is the present And the future’s no more When every tomorrow Is the same as before Numbers keep falling off the calendar’s floor We’re stuck in our boxes Windows open no more Could’ve lifted up the forget-me-nots Not recalling what they’re for
I was supposed to see Pearl Jam next week in Nashville and then a few days after that in Los Angeles. But… At least they dropped their first album in seven years. And the first one that I liked in twenty-two years. And here is a clip of when I first saw them play twenty-eight years ago at Marquette’s Alumni Theater.
According to Hemingway and Rio.
And we did it with a billion less people than China. USA!
#9: Complete 10 nagging home repairs Paint and clean the fireplace.
#21: Read 20 additional novels Haven’t yet read anything from her that I haven’t enjoyed.
#9: Complete 10 nagging home repairs Spent the weekend working on a few projects. Rebuilt and painted the above frame. Patched a two year old hole in the guest bathroom’s drywall. Weather stripped the front door. Patched a hole under the kitchen sink. Cocked a bunch of cracks. Kinda fun. Sonia painted the dining room wall.
21. Read 20 additional books Enjoyed
#10: Refurbish the fireplace It took a pandemic, but we finally tackled the fireplace project. It took Alex two and half days to strip seventy years worth of paint, but getting to the original wood was well worth it.
#57: Dinner at home one full week (3 times) Well, that was easy. One week down.
#2: Grow LA Fashion Insider–will now be: Don’t Permanently Shutter LA Fashion Insider We’ve officially been forced to shut down. We started the company twelve years ago in our apartment, built it up to a team of eleven, pared down to five, and now we’re back down to the two of us. We’ll see…
Unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures. #1: Sleep in a treehouse–will now be: Don’t sleep in a hospital #2: Grow LA Fashion Insider–will now be: Don’t Permanently Shutter LA Fashion Insider #6: Key West–will now be: See my Dad in person by Father’s Day #9: Stay at a top 20 US hotel–will now be: Complete 10 nagging home repairs #11: Sleep in the desert–will now be: Sleep…
May you have the luck of the Irish.
@1: Read 14 additional novels This one was so-so for me.
After nearly twenty years of life, Finnegan’s failing kidneys made euthanasia the most compassionate option. He made it clear that it was time by meowing day and night over the last 48 hours. It was harder than any of us anticipated. The kids said he was the last thread to their childhood which was a punch in the gut. Finnegan was more dog than…
#21: Read 14 additional novels Despite the controversy over what author can tell what story, I enjoyed the read.
IMG_4503 from henry james on Vimeo. My client from Nashville sent this to me while watching the local news. South Korea and China are probably post peak, but given our level of preparedness, I’d say we have awhile to go yet. At least I’ll die laughing.