Life is all about those little episodes that sum up how things are going for you.

Take this morning, for example. I spent two hours hunting through every storage compartment and container in my garage to find the 1/2 inch chuck key for my hammer drill. It’s one of those tools that I probably only use once every couple of years, but when I need it, I really need it. It also happens to be the only tool I have with a 1/2 inch chuck, so I don’t exactly have a lot of spares lying around.

After giving up and deciding to go to the hardware store to buy a replacement, I put the drill up on my workbench. It was then that I discovered that the missing chuck key was attached to the power cord.

So, that’s how life has been going lately.

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Drilling into masonry on top of a ladder that’s older than I am in the middle of a July afternoon isn’t as fun as it sounds.

Having done this sort of thing a few times, I set up a fan to move the air around me, took a cold drink with me up that ladder, and made sure to wear a hat and sunscreen. My people are a pale people, after all, and I don’t want to repeat the Sunburnt Neck and Face of 2022.

Even with all that, the air conditioning felt really good after I’d finished and put everything away.

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I must have been doing something noteworthy when I cooked dinner on the outdoor stove this afternoon. At least two of my neighbors came out to see what I was doing.

Dinner tonight was chicken and steak fajitas, with grilled onions, bell pepper, and mushrooms. It’s the last dinner Irish Woman and I have before The Young Prince returns from his last week at Scout camp, so I thought I’d do something nice.

It’s been kind of nice having some one-on-one time with Irish Woman, but it’ll be nice to have the sprog back.