Wednesday, June 3, 2020

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Dear Husband (DH) has been “working” from home since mid-March. He keeps telling me that this is what retirement will feel like, and that he cannot wait.

DH does have a man-cave of sorts set up in the basement, and I have converted a child’s former bedroom into my own little “pink room,” so we can retreat to our corners on separate levels of the house when the pandemic togetherness becomes a tad too much. DH is making incredible progress on his model railroad, by the way.

And in terms of household projects, DH has been equally productive. Just Monday he replaced the 24 year old garbage disposal, which gave up the ghost last week and left a huge puddle under the kitchen sink. (This, of course, forced me to clean the soggy mess–I threw out raggedy dishtowels, long-expired plant food, and stray plastic grocery bags. Eww. But this was still less disgusting than his task of replacing the disposal and cleaning out the goo in the pipes. Double eww.)

Since our quarantine started, DH has fixed, painted, mowed, weeded, sawed, assembled, disassembled, scrubbed, hammered, washed, ironed, and disinfected. He has proven, yet again, to be a great catch.

Today’s drink is my version of the Brandy Fix cocktail.

In a cocktail shaker, combine 2 ounces brandy, 1/4 ounce anisette, 1/2 ounce lime juice, 1/2 ounce pineapple juice, and 1/2 ounce simple syrup. Shake and strain into an Old Fashioned glass. Add a large ice cube and garnish with a twist of lime peel.