Quarantine Projects

  

- Figure out how you are going to spend your stimulus money

- Do a gigantic complicated jigsaw puzzle (like Terry and Barbara)

- Re-read and bowdlerize your teenage diary/journal

- Use some creative accounting on your 2019 taxes

- Dig up and prepare your summer garden

- Sort through and clean out your socks’ drawer

- Keep close tabs on all the virus statistics

- Make a birdhouse or two

- Sharpen your kitchen knives

  - Do Zoom calls with your old classmates

- Roll up all those mayonnaise jar coins

- Write the great American novel

- Binge-watch all the old English sailing war-ship movies

- Read and even compliment the Fletcher’s Castoria blog

Autumn Doggerel

The leaves are off the old Silver Maple out behind ...

Many stripped off by the Halloween wind.

A yellow and brown carpet cover over our meager acres,

Promising rewards for our granddaughter rakers.

And I long for that acrid sweet smell of burning leaves.

Can be likened to a pyre for the denuded trees.

This made up for our loss of sunny, sandy beaches,

Red ripe tomatoes and juicy peaches.

Get out the goose-down quilt and comfy woolen sweater.

I hope the furnace makes it through the winter.

Our garden has gone to sleep for a long cold while.

I pray I’m here when it wakens with the daffodil.