October 13, 2020

 It was a beautiful day for a walk after work.  It is so very dry here.  All of the yards are brown but this little pop of color has survived.

October 12, 2020

 

I came in to work this morning and the window looked like this.  The designer of the month had used a clothesline to hang up sleep sacks and it got too heavy.

This is such a silly post.  As you can see, the command hook popped right off the wall.  Egads!

I fixed it by adding GIANT thumb tacks.

October 11, 2020

 That's a Cooks Illustrated brined pork chop with green beans.

The cats are laying together.  Blue looks like she wants to punch Green.

A little cemetery just down the street from us.  The fall colors are beautiful.

Not sure if you can see the green mixed in with the red.  At first I thought the leaves were both colors but it's just some branches are green and some are red.

October 9, 2020 - Out of order

 Whoopsie!  I forgot to post this so I'm out of order.  I contemplated not posting it at all but c'est la vie.

So this comedian is on a new show called Connecting.  I watched it.  It's about the pandemic.  It was...not great.  But I love him from AGT.  So I will probably keep watching until it goes off the air.  Maybe.  It's like a zoom call with all of them on different screens.  They had one "emotional" moment with one of the characters who is a doctor.   At the time that this was filmed, it was probably great.  But right now in the middle of pandemic exhaustion, it was a lot.

October 10, 2020

 We picked up Riley for a few hours, went to lunch, played with puppies and drove around Brown County.  At one point, I asked why she wasn't looking at the scenery.  She said something to the effect of "I live on one of the most beautiful campuses in the country.  I LIVE among these trees."  Lol.  Okay then.

Afterwards, Rick rode his bike home and I took Riley and a friend to Target, the mall and Walmart.  She bought these spiders for her door.  They are cute.  Also, I realized after we got home that I have NO idea what Riley's friend looks like.  HAHA  We had our masks on the whole time.

October 8, 2020

 

Steak and fresh asparagus.  It's not very attractive, plating wise.

I got my flu shot today.  My band-aid was Julie colored.  Can you see it?

As an aside, when I went on to IUs page to sign up for my flu shot, it popped up a fake address.  That address was almost exactly (and may have been exactly) my address when I was an RA.  Weird, eh?

October 7, 2020

 

Rick had an outdoor concert tonight with a newer group.  They wore masks and the instruments were masked as well.  It was kind of exciting to get out but I felt Riley's absense deeply as that is definitely something we would have done together.  However, the temperature was about 70 when the concert started which was perfect.  I actually put on a sweater.  The sun was setting and the concert had a patriotic bent.  I actually almost cried a bit when it started because it felt so "normal".

After the concert, Rick took me to a brewery for dinner.  A lot of these places have "fancy" food which either translates to weird, or lots of onions, or weird with lots of onions.  I ended up going with roasted chicken with grilled grapes and a sweet potato mash.  It also had an apple and thyme sauce.  I tried everything and it was all good although the chicken tasted like it had been re-warmed....which maybe it had.  It was late.  

This was my cranberry and walnut salad.  I say "my" but Rick and I shared it.  

See the sun setting?  

Smiling...

Not smiling...

There's Rick!