Story please! I assume you are referring to an actual bird, not Mr. A or the girls…
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What a week for you! Maybe you can get some rest and celebrate mother’s day after next Sunday!
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Hi, everyone. The pollening is upon us - I’m ready to claw my eyes out, or possibly dig out some swim goggles to wear to soccer later today (our home fields are at a garden site).
Yesterday DH went out for lunch with a friend, so DS and I went out for pizza. We ended with an exciting visit to Staples for a new office desk chair for me. Woohoo! My previous chair was about as old as him… he’ll be 15 this summer…
Sun: turkey burgers, carrot sticks, and homemade baked beans (currently bubbling away in the IP on slow cooker mode, hope they are done by dinnertime)
Mon: halloumi chicken parm with za’atar (NYT), air fryer green beans
Tues: grilled tuna steaks and garlic fries
Weds: Turkish beef with peppers and tomatoes, cheesy mashed potatoes
Thurs: I have a late afternoon work meeting in the city and will probably grab dinner with coworkers. Takeout for the guys.
Happy Mother’s Day to those who celebrate!
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I’m relieved that I am not the only one who has put off household duties!
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Looking forward to the end of this semester. Oof.
For two adults in San Diego:
Breakfasts: Going the easy route… good bread from a bakery for toast.
S: Takeout - pizza
Su: (tonight) Eggs scrambled with ham, spinach, potatoes, and cheese
M: TJ’s lemon ravioli with spinach, crab, and garlicky breadcrumbs - seafood
T: Lentil soup - vegetarian/soup
W: TJ’s chicken tamales with beans and/or salad
Th: TJ’s unexpected cheddar sausages, onions, peppers on a roll
F: Hanging out with friends in LA for the evening - dinner TBD
Take care of yourselves!
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Checking in from outside Boston. 2 adults and one small, black cat (who will get his rabbit food, as usual). My plan for the week:
The list on the left is the week’s plan. The list on the right is what I knocked out today.
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It was a bird. Stupid bird
(Setting the stage, a peaceful spring morning at 545 with cool temperatures so we left the window open just a bit for the fresh air and the lilac outside our bedroom is starting to smell Devine)
Turkey gobbling but I thought it was a weird dream thing.
Turkey gobbling again. Was not a dream. Woke up Mr Autumm as well. I thought for a minute maybe the neighbors got a rooster again. Not a rooster.
Stupid turkey kept it up for almost an hour., with pauses that were just long enough to drift back to sleep between. We couldn’t see him from our window but sure could hear him. And the ducks
We live in the middle of suburbia. A major mall is 3 minutes drive, the original Target T1 is 3-5 minutes depending on stop lights.
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So much nice sounding seafood!
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Thank you! We are still trying to stick with mostly fish and seafood during the week and loosening up a bit on the weekends.
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One of our suburban neighbourhoods was talking about allowing backyard chickens a few years ago so people can raise them for eggs. Thankfully the idea never came to fruition - I can see how it would upset the neighbours.
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I live in what is considered “downtown” Chapel Hill, and there are people in our neighborhood who raise chickens. And we see deer walking down the street.
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Wow! We often have a family of deer walk down our street in the winter, but we’re fairly far from our “downtown” area.
We don’t even have a real forest nearby.
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I think it mostly tells you something about how small Chapel Hill is. When someone first said to me “oh, so you live downtown” I almost choked. I grew up in DC, so my idea of downtown is sort of different.
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I was under the clearly mistaken impression that it might be bigger than our tiny college town, what with the triangle.
Berlin’s got so many different nabes it’s difficult to pin down any ‘downtown’ area. And it spreads out forever.
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Durham and Raleigh are bigger, and we get to benefit from having them close by. And it is nice to be able to walk to the main street.
I loved Berlin. I think most cities these days have lots of little pockets of commercial activity and nightlife, which is really nice!
Where are you?
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We are in the bougie part of Kreuzberg this year, after 15 years of ‘exile’ in Prenzlauer Berg — which is also bougie, but Kreuzberg still has more grit. And it’s closer to all the good Turkish, Syrian, Lebanese, and Greek places 
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Lucky you.
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I am grateful every day, trust.
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Ottawa’s the same - the downtown core is very small and you can literally walk from one end of downtown to the other. I actually do this on a daily basis - I live in the south end of downtown (near the Queensway for those who are familiar with the city) and I work near Parliament Hill at the north end of downtown and I walk to and from work everyday. It’s about a 45 minute walk each way and Ottawa has lots of green spaces so it’s a lovely walk to and from work. Now that the weather is nice I try to walk up and down as many side streets as I can so I can see how everyone’s flower gardens are coming along. I passed by a community vegetable garden today and the dead plants are now turning green although I can’t tell if they are actual plants or weeds. Time will tell soon enough.
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There was a notoriously aggressive turkey that took up residence in the rose garden in Oakland and would literally chase pedestrians across the garden and down the street.
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