Yesterday, March 15, 2021, was two weeks after my second dose of COVID-19 vaccine (the Pfizer one, so it was three weeks after the first one, which was February 8). That means I had two weeks after the second one for my immune system to do as much as it was going to (or at least to cross whatever threshold the FDA or CDC or Pfizer scientists had set).
I celebrated the occasion for going for a haircut today! I had my hair cut four times in the previous year, twice by Arlene with the old hair cutting set with clippers that I already had when I was in grad school and twice by a hairdresser who came to Anne’s house and cut our hair in the backyard (the COVID safety recommendations are to avoid being indoors with anyone).
Earlier in the day we walked around Longfellow Pond in Wellesley. It had been cold overnight and yesterday (and was a little cold for mid March today, just in the low 30s) after several unseasonably warm days, and the pond was iced over. The first time we went there was in the late fall, when birders had been reporting good ducks on it. We saw several hooded mergansers at that time, but nothing today.
I cooked eggplant parm for supper tonight, the third time I’ve made it. It takes time with breading and frying the eggplant, not to mention sprinkling salt on the eggplant slices and letting them sit to get rid of excess water and bitterness.
We got two rubber stamp orders today, the first in several weeks. I started tidying up my workbench in the cellar so as to have room to index stamp mounts.
The biggest news came around 10 PM. Anne and Matt had gone to North Carolina for a week to see if they wanted to buy a house with room for horses, and they did get one, or at least have one under contract, near Tryon NC which is on the SC border. Their place has a Columbus NC address, but looks from Google Maps as though it’s closer to Tryon than Columbus and closer to Landrum, SC than either of them! I’m looking forward to visiting them there!