green
We've just about reached peak green. I went for a walk on the rail trail while my clothes were washing today, and everywhere was green. The rain had let up, and the sun was starting to peek through. It was divine. Made having to go out and do laundry a bit less awful.
It's not that I mind doing laundry, or even having to pay for it. I just hate the laundromat, and today it was crowded. So much for my theory of it being less busy on a Monday. Everyone else had the same idea, evidently. At least the rail trail is nearby, and I can get other errands done in the same plaza.
I've been having fun learning to play my ukulele. She tells me her name is Lucy. I've learned a few chords, and I learned to play "When the Saints Go Marching In." I have to find some better songs to learn than the ones in the book that came with Lucy; I don't know most of them, and I grew up on folk music so I don't know what they were smoking when they put together their playlist.
I ordered an electronic tuner for her, because I'm still breaking in the strings and they won't stay in tune. It's a pain to keep going to a website to get the notes.
I also have to keep my nails super short, because I have long nailbeds and I have trouble with one or two chords because it's hard to keep my middle finger out of the way of the string below it.
But I'm getting there. It's fun, and a good diversion from TV and the internet.