2021 Life Logs, Day 127: A Lot of Running Around
Date: Friday, May 7, 2021
Weather: Sunshine; High 58, Low, 43 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA

I feel like I have been running in circles all. Actually, it wasn’t in circles, but it was up and down the highway—just a lot of running around. Shadow had his once every six-week appointment with the groomer this morning. The groomer’s location is all the up Route 28 to the Bourne Bridge. When I dropped off Shadow and started to drive home, I stopped. As long as I was that far north, why not do a couple of shopping ‘jobs’ on my to do list? So, I switched direction and headed on across the bridge, did the shopping, and got back home three hours later. Exactly eight minutes after I got home, I got a text saying Shadow was ready for pick-up. It was three hours earlier than usual, so I got back in the car and went to pick him up. That took almost another hour. I came home, had lunch, and then it was time to pick up Ollie. We pick up Dunkin’ Donuts for everyone on Fridays, so we took those to 43 Grasmere, but then Ollie decided he would go back home with me for an hour to earn some money. So, we drove back to my house where he mowed Shirley’s side yard for me. The landscapers should be coming soon, but the grass in the side yard was so high that I wanted it cut. I played ball with Shadow in Shirley’s backyard by the water while Ollie cut the grass in the side yard where we usually play. Ollie is a good little worker and never takes a break until the job is done. But at one point, I threw a tennis ball too far and I needed Ollie to go down on a neighbor’s dock to get it. I could get down on their lower dock, but I was not sure I could get back up! After cutting the grass and putting lawn mower away, we had a little time for him to help me open and distribute a couple of bags of compost in one of my raised beds. I needed to get him home by 5 pm so he could have his daily antibiotic infusion, so we were in the car and back down the road again.

Tomorrow is another ‘Soccer Saturday’. Jonah and Sam are camping with Scouts this weekend at Tony Andrew’s Farm in East Falmouth. So, Soccer Saturday will require Heather and Jed to pick up one boy and then the other for their games at 10:30 am and 1:30 pm. Then Jonah has a second game off-Cape tomorrow night. Tomorrow is going to be Heather and Jed’s turn to do a lot of running around.