There was an article in the Post or the Times this morning about the waste water testing for Covid - there is quite a spike this month all over the place. I have a tour tomorrow; I'm hoping it is sparsely attended, and I'll wear my mask right up until I start talking.

I felt so generally lethargic this spring that I didn't get much garden put in. Now I'm feeling better but it's so hot there is only so much one can do at a time. Today I trimmed in the back then mowed part of it, and used the grass catcher (I usually mulch it back into the turf). I lugged one of the two kitchen waste buckets to the compost pile and after nudging a bit of a hole into the pile I tipped in the bucket contents and covered it with the grass from the mower bag. I've needed to do this for a while. There is another bucket and I have to do some mowing in front tomorrow, then repeat to empty the other bucket.

I also watered out front with a soaker hose, and at one point in my comings and goings left the garage gate open while the big door was also open - the girls trotted up to me in the front yard! We all headed back to the house and they happily received TWO treats each for being such good girls and not testing the Invisible Fence collars in the front.

A week of cat sitting starts this evening. The cash is nice but to make it worthwhile timewise for me I need to build in my own activities to do while I'm out on some of the feeding runs. More trips to the gym, doing a feeding right before I head to the museum for the tour, etc.

I'm finishing some of the foods I already had here (that I'll buy less often on the low-carb diet); this afternoon a 1/2 cup of beets accompanied a piece of steak and side of mushrooms. And the messy magenta beets reminded me that I needed to use up the remainder of the ink bottles for the Epson inkjet printer. The tanks are topped off and bottles into the trash.