A Moderate Distance

Since we all live in an Edward Hopper painting now, here's Early Sunday Morning, which for whatever reason I tend to mis-remember as Easter Monday.

Fox and I discussed it a bit this morning and since we were up, had eaten breakfast, and had nothing else pressing to do at home, we decided to go ahead and try to get grocery shopping for the next seven to ten days done. I filled up the water jugs and we bought some extra cat food and litter for in case there's a more strict lockdown in our county. Despite preferring a vegan diet, I will happily go to subsisting on a diet of meat and rice so long as the cats have everything they need. Although when I come out of that lockdown I'll probably be just as ravenous for a green salad as I was when we got back from Tokyo. "I will fight all y'all for a head of cabbage."

Anyway, since it was very early we were able to score everything on the list. We weren't there right when the stores opened, but close to it, so I was even able to buy things like sugar. I'm not exactly using that much sugar, but I wanted to get at least a four-pound bag for feeding the hummingbirds. I know they're perfectly capable of finding their own food, but I enjoy watching them. Speaking of which!

We were looking through footage from our security cameras today. They have infrared, because what good's a security camera that can't see at night? Anyway, I've been leaving my hummingbird feeders outside at night because I didn't have a free dish tub to put them in. (It's a long story that involves ants) The bears haven't found them yet, so it's a "so far so good" thing. Anyway - a couple of nights that particular camera recorded movement, and it looks like a huge moth is drinking at those feeders! You can't see it very well, but it's probably too small for a bat, and the flight is sort of moth-like, if that makes sense. I would like to set up a better or closer camera for a few nights just to see what we're getting.

So I bought veggies and stuff, and I'm pretty happy. Going out that early also meant there weren't many others around. Fox and I were able to stand in the street in front of Walmart and have a conversation, which is normally a good way to get run over. But there were hardly any people there. Publix was a little busier, but not by much.

I wasn't feeling too hot last night but it passed, and today, while I'm not 100%, I do feel better. It was all stomach related though. I have no idea why, as Fox didn't have any problems, so it couldn't have been what we ate. I also didn't run a fever. Maybe an overblown stress reaction? I carry stress in my gut, and when I'm anxious or scared that's the first thing that starts cramping and complaining. (The reason I rarely eat much when I'm flying anywhere.) But I did wake up for a while last night and decided to read, so I finally got around to starting In RE: Sherlock Holmes, The Adventures of Solar Pons, which happens to be just as good as I was hoping. It's obviously not Holmes, but I don't care.

I was a bit leery of them, but logically I knew if someone had gone through the trouble of reprinting these from Derleth's original publications, they can't be that bad. But I was afraid of them being bad fanfic. I might go ahead and order the second volume - I know the mail is running a little slow, which I understand.

So for tonight, just going to make dinner as usual and work on drawing. I run out of energy more easily today, so even an hour drawing means I need to go stretch out for a while. It's annoying to not have the stamina I'm used to, and I was supposed to get an eight-mile run in today, but it's not like I have anything else to do.