2021 Life Logs, Day 125: Coffee and Cleaning on Cinco de Mayo
Date: Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Weather: Overcast with Some Rain; High 51, Low, 46 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
What is Cinco de Mayo other than the fifth day of May? When I asked myself that question, I had no answer. So, I looked it up. Cinco de Mayo is a festive day commemorating the Mexican army’s victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. Some say this battle gave the Mexican’s the incentive to eventually drive out the French. And some say that this could have changed the course of American history as the French would have supported the Confederacy in the Civil War. For whatever reason, it is more widely celebrated in the US than in Mexico. Who knew? Not me.
My Cinco de Mayo began with a coffee date with a friend. If, and when, I drink coffee, which is not often, I drink decaf with cream. That is what I had this morning when my friend Midge had tea. So, it seems unfair to coffee to call this a coffee date. I’ll have to come up with some other name.
When I returned home it was noon. I had lunch and then launched into a kitchen cleaning frenzy. The plumber comes tomorrow to replace the kitchen faucet. Since I moved into the cottage, the kitchen faucet has had a pinhole on the front tip of the faucet. I have continually applied Super Glue and have been successful in keeping it from spraying in the face most of the time. In addition, the faucet leaks around the base which keeps the plywood under the sink damp all the time. So, it is time to have the faucet replaced. And that gave me the incentive to clean the whole kitchen.
My next cleaning project is to reorganize the basement. The natural gas company’s energy assessment team comes on May 21. When they give the go-ahead, a whole list of energy saving projects will be done. One of those is insulating the basement walls above the half shelf (I’m not sure that is the correct term). The cottage basement has a three-foot deep and about three-foot high shelf all around and the concrete block wall above that needs to be insulated. In order to do that, I was told on during an earlier assessment that everything I have stored on the top of the wall has to be relocated. My goal for Mother’s Day is to get that done. Then hopefully I can get back to writing.
