Take a break!

To go to the Rose Festival at the Park of Roses, but only after cleaning the house and doing a little laundry, starting a batch of bread and watering plants. Run into an old friend who insists on introducing a friend of hers, who introduces a couple of his friends, you catch the drift, and the garden turns into a network of mutual friends in which I pause to do a bit of basic movement.

From there go to the coop and buy the basic beans (Great Northern, Red Chili), flour (whole wheat pastry), and beer (Red Bud Ale from Portsmouth, Ohio) and a handmade father's day card. Go home, knead the bread, start the bean soup, add onions, carrots, celery, mushrooms, habanero peppers, canned salmon, and coconut milk, let it simmer, and call it great northern salmon stew.

Pull a few weeds, transplant a few lamb's ear, and check the Reds-Tigers game. Take a break from taking a break and drink some water. Eat half an avocado with cherry tomatoes and cranberry walnut bread and coffee with Bailey's. Pull some more weeds, and stop in time to go for a quick bike ride down Alum Creek Trail, surprise a deer and a groundhog, and get back in time to go for a swim at JC Pool.

It's June, so it's time for a gin and tonic with a bowl of rice and great northern salmon stew, with a Cheez-It chaser while watching the Miami Heat blow it.