Stay at Home - Day 24 - Venturing Out

It'a a Tuesday, and that's the day I cut checks for company bills. We're an old-fashioned company. I might pay my personal bills via electronic checks, but for the store, I actually type paper checks and mail them. I know that's almost as old as pressing cuneiform characters into clay or painting Egyptian hieroglyphics onto reed papyrus. Having paper checks makes DH happy, and since he's in charge of the finances, I try not to rock the boat. 

I learned to type on a machine very similar to this one. This typewriter
dates from the mid-1950's, I received my first typewriter as a gift
from my father in 1964. I used it through college and over the years
developed some impressive speed and skills on the keyboard that
has been a key to my employment through the 1980's. 

However, I don't own a typewriter outside of the shop, so to type checks, I have to drop by the shop. That's OK, I also pick up the mail on Tuesdays (and Saturdays), so I had the chance to add one more bill to the small pile. I'm missing some mail, but so far I've been able to get e-bills from the vendors we were missing. I suspect I might never see some invoices, but as long as I'm not overdue on any payments, I'm OK. 

Our trees are starting to look bushy - what I call it when the
leaves are just starting to bud. I love early spring up here
in the Frozen Northlands. It's a beautiful season and a
time of hope for all of us, despite the pandemic. 

It was a nice errand, though, because it's blue skies, just at freezing for the temps - a little cold for this time of year, but still within reason - and the trees were showing their first hints of green. Grass, being a sturdy plant, has been growing in over the past month and well-kept lawns are looking lovely and green. My lawn is NOT well kept - it's so shady that a majority of my "grass" is actually Creeping Charlie - a weed. But it's green, and the grass tries to come up also, so by the end of May, we'll have green, just not a beautiful sward of grass fit for an English manor house. 

I would love to have grass that looks this beautiful. Unfortunately, we
have too much shade from our numerous trees to be able to get
anything close to this. DH isn't the "Grass Whisperer", but he is
most certainly the "Fern Whisperer". Our fern crop this year will
be magnificent once again. 

We're into our final two weeks of quarantine. I'm hoping that our customers will come back once we're open again on the 4th of May. I was cheered by one piece of mail from an older woman whose necklaces I've been repairing for a few years. She wants me to contact her and has a "box" of necklaces she wants me to repair. I guess I'd better finish my Owl Project (the display stand should arrive next week) so that I can devote myself to a "box" of repairs. Of course, a "box" could be three or thirty pieces. 

I hope all of you are enjoying your day today. Stay home, stay safe, stay well, and I'll be back tomorrow.