🥃 the glass -half ....

 🥃 full

just another sip
enuff to  ' dip your beak' 

a tasting as it were
not the dregs, yet
a portion

' boro weather - dismal. rain. cold ish [ wore my winter coat to get the paper

" lovely, Rita meter maid " comes today. Say what !!!
not exactly, but the gas meter is switched out for a new one
30 minutes and done UNLESS, the guy condemns your water heater or furnace

Oh, joy !

did you know ? that ' Sound of Silence ' Simon and Garfunkel was a folk song

further : Sara Bareilles wrote a protest song for the record company s desire to direct here career - ' Love Song '. got a lot of press for the sentiment and kitsch manner of her protest
Well. Years later, Ben Folds, producer etc, presented ' Love Song ' w/ the National Symphony Orchestra, back up singers and arrangement by among others Caroline Shaw.
Wowsers ! joy in a can - as they say

follow up on meters

all done. out [ meter out there ]  then inside for 10 minutes. Check all appliances running.
the guy even turned on the fireplace pilot light - thus fireplace works