It's July. 2020. The weirdest year I've seen so far.
The month started out very hot. At the pool almost every day. The garden is growing. Tomatoes, bell peppers, jalapenos, asparagus.
The month started out very hot. At the pool almost every day. The garden is growing. Tomatoes, bell peppers, jalapenos, asparagus.
During the first two weeks of July, I noticed that my left knee was swollen. It felt like it was stuffed with cotton and I was walking with a limp. I couldn't use my left leg to go up a step. I had recently purchased a new pair of Chaco sandals, and I suspected that they had thrown off my gait.
Knoebel's opened (and Tess started work again) on July 1. We didn't wear masks along with about 40% of the other patrons. Crowds were exceedingly light.
He's so strong (and cool) he can do the handcars single-handed now.
I had a pair of glasses dipped to make prescription sunglasses. Best decision I ever made.
This is just sad. They turned off the North Pole because you might catch Covid from touching it.
The next day they (and everybody else) started cracking down hard on the mask regulation. This was our first, last, and only visit to the Grove this year.
We celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary. Andy made the decision to replace the cracked electric stove with a gas stove, and spent several weeks installing a new gas line. I thought he was just replacing the electric stove in the same location. Then, he told me he was going to switch places with the refrigerator so he could install a range hood.
I was sitting in the living room one July afternoon - it COULD have been our actual anniversary - when all of a sudden he comes to the front door with an enormous stainless steel refrigerator on a dolly. His secret plan had been not only to replace the stove but also to upgrade to a larger refrigerator with a water and ice dispenser as an anniversary surprise.
I don't think I have any pictures...the phone I had last year was traded in. I'll have to check. Anyway, fun story ... the new fridge has double doors on top and a two-tiered freezer drawer on the bottom. For the first few weeks I was perplexed to regularly find ice cubes on top of the frozen food. I wondered if the kids were doing it, or if there was an overflow problem with the ice maker. I looked up the model number to look for an online manual or troubleshooter, but was pleasantly shocked to read the description.
"28 cu. ft. French Door Refrigerator
with CoolSelect Pantry™, Dual Ice Maker"
WHAT?!?!
He inadvertently picked out a fridge with two ice makers, and I had been storing food in the lower ice bin. Like a ninny. I can't describe how nice it is to have a reserve of ice at all times, especially when we are taking a cooler somewhere or making pierogies. Everybody has quickly become addicted to glasses of tinkling ice water.
