Share Our Lives 2024 - A Day in the Life, Summer Edition

  

This month we're sharing A Day in the Life, Summer Edition.  Daily life is pretty laid back here and probably more so in the summer.

8:00am - I'm retired so I sleep late!  Malone eats at 8:00am and then runs out to raise havoc in the backyard.  I should say attempts to raise havoc because the two dogs in the yards that adjoin ours are usually not out and about this early.  So, he does a perimeter patrol (runs the entire perimeter of the yard to check things out), does his business, and then barks a little to see if there's anyone around.

8:30am - Time to start a load of laundry (I've broken it down to one load a day), put Vic's breakfast dishes in the dishwasher and turn it on, and fix myself a cup of coffee and some breakfast.  Today it's a bagel and I'll usually watch an episode of The Great British Baking Show or catch up on some You Tube videos.

10:00am - Put the laundry load in the dryer and head to the shower.  After my shower, it's computer time - blog reading, blog writing, budgeting, anything else that catches my eye (right now that's the current posts on Les Frenchies Facebook page).

11:00am - Malone goes out and then comes in to have his elevenses while I have another cup of coffee.

Looks like Elevenses is one of the seven Hobbit meals!

11:30am - Empty the dishwasher, tidy the room of the day, and whiz the vacuum around.

12:00pm - Time for lunch with more Baking Show or You Tube.

1:00pm - Fold laundry load and put it away.  Ran a few errands - post office, library, and fruit and vegetable stand.

2:00pm - Start prepping dinner.

Between 3:00pm and 4:00pm - Vic comes home so we have coffee and something sweet while watching an episode of Grey's Anatomy.  We're in Season 17 now.

5:00pm - Malone eats dinner.

6:00pm - Dinner time.  Tonight, it's whatever takes our fancy.  Hotter days, lighter meals.

Between 7:00pm and 9:00pm - Vic walks Malone once the neighborhood dogs are off the streets and then he works some more on the project of the moment (deck planning) while I tidy the kitchen.

10:00pm - Time for bed.  This is Vic's last week of work - he goes on leave this Friday for 2 1/2 months and then starts his new job. 

This would be my usual routine, but all activity is suspended this week for Wimbledon.  That means sandwiches or Vic cooks dinner and only the most necessary things are done around the house.  There will be lots of tea drinking (in the air conditioning), cucumber sandwich eating, and strawberries with lashings of cream!

    

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