Wednesday "day off" Activities

1. Took Jemma to school. Dahlia has been a graduate for a few weeks and has been kind enough to keep driving her sister to school, but we feel like it is only fair to give her a day-off now and again.

2. Stopped at Walmart on the way back (It is in the same general area as the HS). We needed a new wiper blade for the Subaru, which I had noticed on the way back from UVM last weekend and we were fresh-out of dishwasher detergent. I had put the last dregs in for the load I got going this morning.

3. While I was at Walmart, I looked at our grocery list (a phone app with the list shared by the whole family) and we needed a few other things. I got the things Walmart had.

4. Installed the new wiper in the parking lot: I had taken off the old one to bring into the store as an aid to getting the right replacement one. Every time I buy a wiper blade it seems like they change the design from the old universal fit, to a new universal fit. Hence, it always takes 5 minutes to figure out how it works.

5. Once home, I ran the wipers while spraying the window with a hose. This is an easy way to get off tough baked-on bug guts.

6. Took a morning shower.

7. Drank some leftover coffee.

8. Ordered 40 Lbs of green coffee beans from Burman Coffee Traders.

9. Trimmed a bunch of overgrown shrubs in front, back and a few other places around the house and cleared away the debris.

10. Went for a 6 mile run. Early-on I thought I would handily break 9:00 per mile--for years I averaged around 8:00 but suddenly 9:00 is the new 8:00--but then I must have been wool-gathering and slowed a lot. I came in at 9:10/mile.

11. A feast of left overs: Three left over lamb chops with tandoori spice and charcoal grilled, left over salad with left over blue cheese dressing from some take-out, left over Italian garbanzo stew AND a fresh Budweiser in a frosted glass.

12. Emptied the dishwasher.

13. Went out to pick-up Jemma.

14. Super glued a belt that was coming apart and a pair of shoes where the leather foot-bed had come loose.

15. Drove Jemma to dance--she actually drove herself, but she has a learner's permit, so I had to accompany her.

16. Packaged the leftover spaghetti sauce which had been frozen into pucks in a muffin tin.

17. Cleaned up the kitchen from all of the afternoon meals the girls made for themselves.

18. Picked up Jemma from dance.

19. Changed the battery in the Saab--It worked for picking Jemma up from HS and taking her to dance but the 3rd time was not the charm. After I put the freshly charged battery in, the car started.

20. Wrote this post.

ADDED:

4.1 Dropped off Jemma's Birkinstock return shipment at UPS.