Aside from our usual frozen pizza, we also played two more games on our pandemic list. 10 Days in the USA was a fun trip. Because when you can’t actually tour the USA, you might as well play a board game about travel.
Guillotine was our second game. Because why not execute some nobles while passing the time at home?
History will (hopefully) soon forget, but Matt is aping the way a certain occupant of the White House awkwardly held up a Bible.
Before view #1: the topknot pulled back
Before #2: the topknot released
After: The YouTube instructions were carefully followed. I learned that hairdressers must have amazingly strong hands. Mine were aching by the time I was done.
The realities of Matt’s thick hair made visible.
My view from my desk. You can see the peas are doing their best and that I planted a few pole varieties that have grown past their supports. The raspberry bush (middle on the right) is producing and the contorted quince (front right) continues its poky journey.
From the other edge of the yard you can see the parsley that has gone to see (left front), my seed beds, a bit of the tree collards (left back) and some bits of green that are spinach and lettuce.
Over in Leo’s yard I have the supports in the ground for the pole beans and those white bits are eggshells around squash and collards that the slugs want to eat all of.
From another angle you can see better the pole beans.
This all feels like a very slow start.
In other news, this fella showed up. I’d not seen any rabbits in my yard before and was first quite excited and enchanted. Then I remembered all my lovely green starts and chased him off.
They are doing construction at the motel and I wonder if there was some bunny displacement.
I had a bunch of leftover peas and I’ve been planting them since mid-March. The first round is ready to harvest.
I do love fresh peas!
Restaurants in Multnomah County are only open for takeout, so takeout it was for our anniversary this year. We chose Hatyai and had a delicious meal.
The unboxing:
All the delicious flavors!
Our anniversary portrait this year is a closeup.
Normally we would see a superhero movie, and it probably would have been Black Widow, the first female-led superhero movie of the long trail of anniversary superhero movies starring guys. But it was not to be. So we watched Batman Begins which I need to see again because I am watching all of the Christopher Nolan films.
Matt introduced me to Azul today. I really enjoyed the tactile sensations that came along with this game. The tiles were very soothing to the touch. The game was fun too.
Matt didn’t come of age during the Bieber era, so hair hanging in his eyes is not his favorite thing. Enter the whale spout.
The front-of-head-pony is cute on two-year-olds and forty-somethings!
It’s back catio season! And my unemployed status means the back catio can appear many more days of the week.
I enjoy working at my desk and watching the cats lounge in the sun.
This picture doesn’t show the area where Sentinel had his surgery, but it’s healing nicely.
The tree collard starts I received in the fall have been transplanted and seem to like their new space. I’ve got stakes up so I can keep them from flopping when they get bigger.
And the peas I planted in early March have made an appearance! I love fresh peas, so this is a very exciting development. I’ve been planting every two weeks or so in hopes of having a long harvest.
Matt’s gym is closed, but they’ve been having workouts online via Zoom.
So now, instead of wishing him a good workout at the gym, I get to see him working out in our home!
