another neighborhood walk aka no dinosaurs allowed

 

meet joe

 

Joe is a neighborhood cat that has been around this one cluster of homes for a few years now. He used to have a buddy but I think that kitty has since passed. I always thought he was a stray, but a woman was out in the yard of one of the houses where we walk by and she mentioned that his name is Joe. 

I asked if Joe was her cat, and she said he chose her so she guesses so. He's a super friendly CHONKY thing and will come running down the sidewalk announcing himself to you. He's al about the pets and love to have his belly rubbed and does that cute thing with the front paws that make it look like he is dancing. 

I'm so happy Joe is around still. Whenever I need a little kitty love, he is the purrrfect (snort) remedy. It helps that I have to walk a few blocks over to get some action. Yay for neighborhood cats! 

time for a neighborhood walk

 

The mister and I are going to try to take at least one neighborhood walk a day. he's now working from home as am I. My assignment for myself is to take at least four photos a walk. Here are my first four!  How cute is that little free library? 

and so it begins

 

Well this has been a weird week. We got the call to shelter in place and the school I work at has closed the classrooms. We're all scrambling to figure out what the next step is and I'm super happy we made it to the library before the call came it. I had a written list and ran around looking for anything I could find at our branch. Seven books in twenty minutes ain't half bad. Only two of the titles were not on my list. Score! 

I placed an order for some puzzles and until then we have this classic farm house puzzle. I remember when I was a kid, we had two or three jigsaw puzzles on the top shelf of the closet in our den that we never used a gathering room. It had a desk in it and my mom's old underwood typewriter, and there was a sewing table and two enormous cabinets full of fabric. Later it became a storage unit for anything and everything, but those first few years we lived there, I remember sneaking into the closet to see what I could discover and there were these two puzzles. One was a farm scene, the other Big Ben, of course. We never put the puzzles together, and I think I just liked to put m hands in the pieces to feel how they felt. 

Stay safe everyone! Wash your hands! What song do you sing for your twenty second wash? At school I taught the children to wash together while we sing the alphabet song all the way to the end. Suds fly everywhere! It's fun! So now, of course, I still sing the abc song in my head. I'm gonna need to find a new one.

and then we ate...

After the jump, Stacey, Za, and we a-go-go's decided to try a new-to-us breakfast place that once upon a tme was not very good (according to the mister). A friedn had mentioned it was under new ownership and se we trekked out for some good old fashioned diner eats.

The eats were delightful. Parking lot was full but we found parking not-too-far away. The place sells t-shirts and socks with fanulous retro designs, and we think next time ,we will endeavor to try one of their super yummy looking cinnamon rolls.

fourteen years hitched: the jump