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Summer might be here at last for all of us?

Tree work makes me very nervous. My DH might attempt to do it himself too but I would try to insist on hiring someone.

Yesterday was one of those busy retirement days you all told me about. We did our workout, ran an errand to the Post Office, stopped at the grocery store to buy ingredients for stuffed pasta shells, bought some mulch at the hardware store, and tried to cut down a significant part of a tree next to our hot tub!

The tree is half dead, and needs to go, but it's tricky, because if DH just cuts off massive sections it will land on the hot tub or fence. So he's cutting it down piece by piece. It involves ropes, ladders, chainsaws on telescoping poles... So far so good, but the possibility of something going wrong or DH getting hurt certainly makes one live in the moment! He is very careful and methodical thank goodness. We were out there until about 7pm. My job is mostly to hold ropes and pray.

I am committed to making a few nice meals this week, to show myself I can I guess and to thank DH for all the cooking over the last 2 years. There will be no frozen pizzas for a good while.

Today more tree work and a concert in the park. The weather looks fabulous. Dinner will be food trucks. Celebrating the Solstice!

I love the Solstice too. Its pretty dramatic at these Northern latitudes, with the sun setting at 4:30pm in December, and near 9:30pm in June. Last night we were outside and it was bright and beautiful at 9pm. The Swedish Institute in Minneapolis (which is in an awesome mansion) does a Solstice Party on the lawn of the mansion. We attended once on a balmy summer night, and it was so much fun to celebrate the return of the light.

P.S. I'm now eating my first Just Crack an Egg, which I learned about from y'all. It's pretty good and massively easy!

Oh I meant to mention what everyone here in Massachusetts is talking about in the news. Don't know if any of you saw anything about the trial of Karen Read in the news? It made national headlines a few times because it has been such a contentious case. The woman was accused of killing her police officer boyfriend by running over him while drunk. The investigation was so flawed that it was hard to believe any of the allegations and the accused was so drunk I don't think even she knew whether she hit him or not. But the stupid Commonwealth of Massachusetts tried the case twice! Once resulting in a hung jury and the second time in a not guilty on all counts except OUI. It cost millions of dollars to run these trials. What a waste! She may have done it, but there was no way to prove it with the shoddy investigation. I'm sure there will be a book/movie about it in the future which if done right could be interesting reading/viewing.

AP news article: https://apnews.com/article/karen-read-not-guilty-verdict-tak eaways-f70203e2639b738bab8a75ef7cc69323