Another Week During the Pandemic

Monday - Sunday,

June 22-28, 2021

A few weeks ago I stated on this blog that I was going to continue to post daily as these were historic times.

Unfortunately, with our self-imposed continuing personal lockdown, it is also a time of repetitive boredom sitting at home watching TV, reading books and basically staying in our home.

The weekend updates about the newest spikes in the Coronavirus pandemic in the USA confirmed that we were doing the right thing. Wearing a face mask and social distancing really is not that hard to do people!

Thus, I submit to you the minimal doings of the past week not day.

Portugal joined the growing list of EuroBall countries

cancelling their 2020 season

Laurie incorporated the fresh vegetables

that our neighbor George grew in his garden

to a delicious risotto dish Wednesday night

On Thursday, I joined RB Coach

Cristian "Bumba" Bianchi and the rest of the Skorpions

staff for our final webinar meeting of the Spring

These Thursday morning meetings have been extremely enjoyable, at least to me, in having the opportunity to talk American football with a coaching staff that worked hard with me to make the Skorpions better the last three seasons.

Little Mary came over to the house and

boldly tried to befriend a lizard in our garden

A phone call with Mike D'Antuono led to his

getting us instantly hooked on this intense Netflix

series direct from Madrid with excellent dubbing

Our Leader

Saturday's trip to the supermarket

showed that the only shortage was still

found in the paper products aisle

At Lombardo's Italian Market, I decided

to cook pasta for dinner Saturday night

Some sweet wine while cooking helped

Ingredients are the keys to culinary success

First, sauté the vegetables

Then grill the sweet Italian sausage

Add the pasta sauce and a couple of SECRET

ingredients and let it simmer

Laurie set the table

mangia,

Mangia,

MANGIA!

Have I mentioned that Laurie loves

to work in the garden?

Headband?

I just had to don a headband to keep the hair out of my eyes on Sunday when Mary and Jacob came to play with me in our backyard.

Reading Is FUNdamental!

An in depth tome on the roots of

American football in Europe

If you are a EuroBall fan like I am, then this is a must read.

In my opinion, it does beg for a Volume 2 with a deeper look at the growth of the game all over Europe in the last 20 years.

One of my favorite crime writers

ruminating about several unrelated

but interesting topics