If it didn’t weigh hundreds of pounds, we’d have dragged this rope home. It has been in water a long time, is several inches across and perhaps ten or more meters in length, heavy with water, and loaded with tiny gooseneck barnacles.

Today is the 25th of June and I am struggling to keep track of time, especially because July Fourth is coming up fast. For most of my life payday was the 25th because I worked for a local public school district from 1979 to 2019 . . . or was that 2018? Everything, especially time, is becoming fluid and muddled. I seek markers for passage of time. Today is a Thursday and alternate Thursdays we have garbage pick-up. Today is Trash Day.

As a Thursday, today is also a Going-Out day where we head out for groceries in the nearest grocery store. Once a month we go further afield to Costco and Natural Grocers and Fred Meyer. We mask except on our beach walks where we try to keep fifty feet from others. Not all locals or businesses respect recommendations about distancing and masking, but we do. We planned to go to another food store today, but they do not mask their counter-help.  Continue reading →