Social Distancing, travel restrictions and the closure of most services have encouraged us to renew our attack on the to-do list, and to add some additional items. And the consequential cancellation of my birthday visit to Portugal and Paris resulted in an excellent celebration here with the last bottle of a Cote de Castillion that we bought en primeur in 2005, and a cake with the number of candles equal to the square root of my age.
We spent a good part of the month designing and constructing a new rose bed and second patio area. I built the block wall for the roses and Coop and I placed and flattened the fill for the patio and then built the forms and placed the rebar. I also formed a ramp for the motorcycle/garden shed in case we had extra concrete, which we did.
May has been unusually cool and wet so we are expecting a much sunnier and warmer June. We will be shifting from work to leisure – motorbiking, kayaking and golfing – although we still plan to make some progress on outside landscaping – trees, shrubs, irrigation and possibly a retaining wall – and on the ever-elusive posts and railings for the stairs. We intend on continuing our caution and staying safe and hope and expect you will as well.
2 thoughts on “May 2020 – Busy, busy, busy”
Only 49? Must be something good in the air out there! Cheers! jc
Only 49? Must be something good in the air out there! Cheers! jc
While much is good in the air out here, one candle is obscured by another. You have good eyes for an old guy. 🙂
Special edition of the blog at the end of this month.