After a horrible start to yesterday I ended it on an okay note. Honey had greased my squeaky bike wheel and I was testing it out and while riding to the corner of the block, saw the neighbor who I hadn't seen since the ICE invasion when I tried to see if I could help her family. We had a brief conversation using arm gestures and single words at a time: bike, broken, test, ride, around. She rides her bike in the late evening and just circles the small neighborhood multiple times. I was genuinely happy to see her and I believe she was happy to see me as well.

After honey left, I started working on the new garden I'm creating in the backyard. First, though, I cleared out the creeping charlie from the existing adjoining garden. When I was just about finished, my neighbors came out and sat in their nosy chairs. I call it their nosy chairs because they will sit there facing my yard and watch me, whether it is weeding or mowing or waiting for me to come out with the dog. They could face each other, or face the street or go sit in their backyard. But no, they sit on their driveway and stare at me. So I went and got the neighbor repellent, uh, I mean the deer/rabbit repellent, and sprayed it on some emerging hosta, and that sent them back into the house lolol! It's a nasty smell and works well on repelling rabbits (and humans).

Next, I pulled out the lawnmower to create the boundary for the new garden so that it would be easy to follow with the mower and then dug a trench to define it. I was going to spray it with grass/weed killer, but there wasn't any in the garage so I headed to big box hardware but remembered halfway there that I had brought all the liquids into the house for the winter, and I likely had some in the basement. Turned around and went home only to discover I did NOT have any, and went back to big box. By the time I got home it was 7pm so I decided to call it a day.

Watched the movie Patch Adams. I don't remember ever seeing it, so it was a good movie and just the type of movie I needed for yesterday.

Food yesterday: a bowl of GF cereal with soy milk, one piece of bread with a slice of cheese. A bowl of popcorn. And lots of sparkling water.