When I started writing this blog twenty years ago, I didn’t know how long I was going to do it. There have been years when I’ve blogged most days, and years when I’ve only created two or three entries all year – it depends on what else is going on in my life.

Today marks a record – the eighty-fourth consecutive day that I’ve created an entry. It’s also the eighty-fourth day of our shelter-in-place order; that’s not exactly a coincidence. It helps me process what’s going on – sometimes I don’t publish everything I think about (for which I suspect my readers are grateful).

Back in February, we took our first (and probably only) overseas trip for the year, spending a couple of weeks in Costa Rica and Panama, including a trip through the Panama Canal. Early in the trip, we visited Doka Coffee Estate and I enjoyed their coffee a lot; in fact, I bought a bag and schlepped it with me through the whole trip. But I only brought a half-kilo, and it didn’t last very long. I’ve been trying to find Costa Rican coffee locally with limited success (the best I’ve found is a blend of Costa Rica and other beans from Intelligensia), so last week I gave up and ordered 3 kilos from Doka. I was afraid it would take a long time to arrive (I’m still waiting for the webcam I ordered on April 12), but it showed up earlier this evening, less than a week after they roasted it. It’ll be a few days before I open it (I want to finish what I have in hand), but I’m looking forward to it.

And I have a sneaking suspicion that I may still be blogging daily when I finish the coffee.

Every day feels more normal, even though it isn’t.

Diane stayed home and planted scallions that we regrew from roots while I made a fast trip to the Farmers’ Market for fish, strawberries, corn, carrots, and tomatoes (not all of those were on the list when I left the house, but they looked good!).

Then we attended the Shir Hadash Congregational Meeting on Zoom; it went smoothly and was far better attended than the typical in-person meeting. No bagels, though.

I bought the carrots to use in a recipe for Chicken, Broccoli, and Cashew Stir-Fry that we’d cut out of Prevention magazine many years ago and had never made (we have a lot of recipes that we’ve cut out and never made). It came out pretty well and was fairly easy; I’d make it again.

And the weather was very pleasant today – we took a walk soon after lunch, when I would expect it to be far too hot to go out on a normal day in June. I managed to close all three rings on my Apple Watch every day this week, which is more unusual than I’d like.