My Co-Worker is Adorable

 
Image: Void cat peeking over a purple plaid blanket.

It's difficult to get work done in these conditions. I believe this co-worker may be flirting with me. 

Yesterday was sunny, at least. Shawn and I went for a long walk around the fancy neighborhoods of St. Paul. I took a ton of house pictures again. So many, in fact, that a lady out walking with her dog and child (safely across the street from us) yelled out to ask if we were new to this area. I yelled back that we were playing tourist in our own town and that I absolutely adored the architecture of Saint Paul and that seemed to make her happy because she yelled back that "now was a good time to do that."  We later watched her go into one of the lovely houses, so I'm sure she was actually very worried that we were out casing the neighborhood. Though, how you would think we were up to no good with Shawn and I loudly blathering about dormers and other such house features, I don't know.

Mason was funny, too. He had us drop him off at the top Summit, near the Cathedral, and told us that he wanted to see if he could find his way home. He must have been walking for four hours, but I am happy to report that he did, in fact, find his way home. He loves a long, long walk, so that was good for his soul, too, I think. 

I probably won't post the house pictures here unless someone begs me.  If we go out again today, I will take more, however, because I think people who are scrolling through Facebook really need relief from coronavirus updates.

I was able to poke a bit a fiction yesterday, too, which was lovely. I didn't get a lot written, but I did commit words to page. It's kind of a break-through, honestly.

Wyrdsmiths, my writers' group, had an impromptu Google Hangout, which worked pretty well... though, like everyone, we are still working out some of the virtual hiccups. But, we got four out of six folks to join and it was lovely to hear everyone's voices again and find out how they're all coping. Turns out my phone works perfectly well for all of this, though I am still sorely in need of a new computer, as mine has a "best if used by" date of 1999.  :-/

We will probably take our government stimulus money and spend it on new computers all around.

Anyway, that's me today.  

I made a pretty amazing bread yesterday, a French boule, for dinner. The dinner was otherwise underwhelming. I had picked up some pre-made chicken Kiev from Kowalski's that I liked the spices of... but the rest of my family really didn't. However, we had baked potatoes and asparagus on the side which were darned good.


Image: smol, crusty loaf

We will at least eat like kings for the apocalypse!  Tonight, I have to pick up some cabbage during our afternoon walk, so that we can have potsickers tonight. Yum, yum!