Saturday Thoughts

  • There’s a salamander living under our toilet. At least there was. My husband took the old toilet out so that he could put the new one in, and underneath it he found a salamander. Creepy, but sort of cool, too. Our lucky toilet salamander. Not everyone has one of those. We are special.
  • I begged my husband to end my misery and upgrade our Hulu to the ad-free version. The ads were so incredibly repetitive that they were driving me mad. Finally he fixed it and, as part of the deal, he got us a subscription to Disney+. Now I have far more television than I can or should watch. The Disney stuff is overwhelming, because there’s so much of it that I haven’t seen yet. I started slowly, with one episode of The Mandalorian, which was surprisingly good, and one episode of Loki, which was surprisingly meh.
  • Marshall has been wearing shorts every day even though it’s fall. For weeks I’ve been trying to convince him that it’s time to switch to pants. The temperature had been hovering just above freezing in the morning, but still he wanted to wear shorts. Thursday, though, it was literally below freezing, so I forced him to go upstairs and change into pants before leaving for school. I totally get that he’s a boy and made out of radioactive materials. He doesn’t feel the cold the way I do. And because he’s over twelve years old, I’m willing to let him make his own mistakes and suffer some consequences, especially minor consequences, such as feeling cold. But on Friday he made a big stink about switching to pants, so I told him that I’m going to take all of his shorts away come next Monday. If that’s what it takes, so be it. Mama gotta draw a line, and the line is 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • The foliage has been very pretty. There are still enough leaves on the maples to provide some color as the oaks get started on their big change. TBH, it’s not the best foliage year, because something caused the maple leaves to turn spotty before they changed color, but it’s so much better than previous years, when the trees had been stripped by insects. Today, as Marshall and I walked on the driveway, we picked up leaves to be contenders in the Prettiest Leaf of the Forest Competition. I feel certain that we have a winner. I’m just not sure which one it is. Maybe all of them.
  • As I’m writing this post, my husband and daughter are out. Livia is getting her first Covid vaccine today (woo-hoo!). They will be bringing home dinner with them. I can’t wait to see my girl and give her a hug for being brave and getting her shot. I’m also looking forward to dinner, and I hope they get back soon.
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