It rained most of the day, which was very nice because . . . well, because, for one thing, rain means it was warm enough that we didn’t get the snow so much of the state received, and that means I won’t have to spend this evening or tomorrow morning shoveling snow.
For another thing, rain means I don’t have to water my outside plants. It’s been so dry, I’ve been thinking I need to drag out my hoses to prevent everything from succumbing to the drought, but whew! I won’t have to do that chore quite yet. Even better, because of the rain, tulips from last spring that I thought were dead have managed to resuscitate themselves. I still don’t know whether I will have flowers, but the green tips peeping up from the soil are a welcome sight.
And finally, rain means that I can be lazy without having to offer excuses why I’m not out running errands, or cleaning up the yard in preparation for spring, or taking a walk, or any number of things I could be doing. Not that I would be doing these activities, you understand. It’s that I have an excuse not to do them, rather than having to face the truth of my indolence.
I started the day as I normally do, with a some stretching, picking a tarot card to study, folding a few origami cranes, reading (lots of reading!), playing a game on the computer, fixing myself a bite to eat (several bites, actually — I don’t eat much, but even I need more than a single bite for subsistence), coming up with a new password for online banking (the passwords become defunct every six months), and staring out the window at the miraculous sight of water falling from the sky.
I even caught up with a friend via telephone, and now here I am, posting to this blog.
Listing everything I’ve done suddenly makes it seem as if it wasn’t such a lazy rain day after all. But it certainly was lovely for all that.
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March 13, 2021 at 8:28 pm
I had a lazy day too. I even went to the zoo, something I haven’t done since I was a kid and a place I don’t have many memories of. Now, after a fun day, plenty of photos uploaded to Instagram, and a nice dinner and shower, I think I’ll check my email and watch a ton of anime.
March 13, 2021 at 9:27 pm
Sounds like a nice day!
March 13, 2021 at 9:28 pm
It was!
March 14, 2021 at 11:33 am
Lazy people only eat and sleeps.
You did
with a some stretching,
picking a tarot card to study,
folding a few origami cranes, (for lazy people impossible)
reading (lots of reading!),
playing a game on the computer,
fixing yourself a bite to eat.
Lazy people command their food (by internet).
You try to be lazy and you have failed.
So it is a lovely day for you.
March 14, 2021 at 2:55 pm
You made me laugh about failing to be lazy. So yes, it was a good day!