Big Day. Really Big!

Today we are celebrating.  (Well, I say, today but I am writing this in advance and will post it on the day...).

This year I have been watching all my classmates turn 70 years old.  Now it is my turn.  When I was a child I was so looking forward to the year 2000 because I was going to turn 50 that year.  I do not know what the thought process was or why I thought that was going to be so great, but I really was looking forward to it.

Now I am looking forward to 70 and it looks like it will happen!

That morning we have to take Dear One to the doctor.  His body scared us for a few days but after an ultrasound and CAT scan (or is it CT Scan?) we learned that his leg just hurts like fury and is very swollen but will get better.  Especially if he moves around and if elevates it as much as possible.  Popliteal cyst, I think it is.

After that appointment we will be having lunch with friends. I will be SO GLAD to see them.  This quarantine has been hard for all of us, though I have had PLENTY of stuff to do.  (You might remember that closet cleaning project I was working on, and stupidly bragged about?  Well, that has been the extent of the cleaning...! Never even finished the other shelf. Too much more fun stuff to do.)

Early on I had thought of making a trip to Whole Foods and an Asian market, if I could find one to celebrate "the day".  I am not so sure about that now. I have just discovered that there is an Asian market not that far away from us.  When I saw it on the web I was souped up to go out immediately.  Sadly, they are closed on Mondays, which is when I was thinking of going.  Maybe we will do that on my birthday.  I still want to go to Whole Foods but that can wait until I have made a menu so I know what to purchase instead of just buying Willy Nilly!  Dear One is not fond of Whole Foods, but he humors me sometimes.  I suppose I could go by myself...

Well, I need to make another face mask before doing any major traveling around.  The one I have works, but only just.  I just found a pattern for a scrub cap which has buttons for the mask elastic.  Great idea.  I have the fabric but...still a lot of things going on out in the garden and in the kitchen....

Good news on the garden front...tall boots are arriving on Monday...something I have never had nor even wanted.  Now, with snakes such a concern, I need protection!  A North Carolina garden blogger wrote me about taking care when working with mulch as snakes love to build houses in mulch.  Yikes!  That is why the tall boots.  So glad I had all those stairs to do every day on the mission so my legs reduced so much!  Being claustrophobic rather has made tall boots a non-starter.  Until now.