On Any Given Tuesday

 True, it is not likely that I will mis-read my iWatch - it is so close to my eyes and the watch font is so big.  Yet at 6:30am this morning I got up.......why?  It was so damned early.  Yet I did actually fall back to sleep before finally getting up and trekking to Whole Foods for their Tuesdays $2 off on whole rotisserie chicken.  I was there early - too early because there were a whole bunch of chickens being cooked but none were close to ready.

Thus, a Tuesday morning bagel & cream cheese and coffee at NY Bagel and going to Trader Joe's for another two boxes of matzoh - only it was still too early for Trader Joes to open.

So across to Whole Food to check - not ready yet - come back in a half hour

And thus, I picked up three rocks to add to some of the blank spaces in front garden where we have the camellia trees......and then back to TJs to wait................and they opened........and I got the matzoh boxes.....

......and crossed the street again to Whole Food where I watched chickens being removed from the rotisserie, with one chosen and packed for me......and thus I made my way home where Katherine asked:  "What took you so long?"

...............but I still made it to the SMC Emeritus Campus and my American Literature class....whew!

Tuesdays during summer session will be more of the same:  John Achorn teaching/acting Raymond Carver followed by going home for a Freddie Manteau Zoom watercolor class..........it's a whole lot different from a day doing tax returns - and I really like it!

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