My main daily routine is coffee. Then some small breakfast muffin which usually includes oatmeal. I try to work (write) every morning. This winter I am experimenting, trying to heat the house with wood because my neighbor, Denis, gave me some free wood, and the hydro bill gets so high between December and March.
My friend Carol and I try to walk usually at least four afternoons a week. I go uptown to her place or she comes over here. I shop for groceries about twice per month. I have no housecleaning routine although I know I should.
My home routine during childhood included: Dad getting up, lighting the fire, putting on the coffee to perc for Mum and making a pot of tea for himself and probably his own breakfast. Mum would get up and get the kids up for school, making our breakfast and our school lunch, while Dad was outside doing the chores. The school van arrived at 8:25 am and we returned at 3:55 pm, just in time for me to have one cookie and settle down to watch The Lone Ranger.
My favourite weekend or holiday routine was urging my Dad to hurry as we drove over the "blind" road the three miles to Grandma's house. My goal was to get there before Grandma put her teeth in (no idea why this appealed to me) but if we were on time, she popped them in and then applied white creamy Jergen's hand lotion on her hands and rubbed the excess on my hands. It had the most lovely smell which I have since learned is almond.
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