Now that the Summer is so late into its season, I don't really have the time to sun both my front and my back any longer ─ the Sun's transit across our backyard is accomplished too swiftly. And it is no help that I am shackled with obligation to my younger brother from 10 a.m. until at least 1 p.m. on weekdays under the weight of responsibility as the sole operator of our Android TV Box to fetch entertainment to help him pass through his morning.
We only have a basic cable subscription with our T.V., and we only receive a morning newspaper on the weekends. He is 100% computer ignorant and cannot use one to entertain himself like most people on the planet are able to do.
And thus exists my weekday bondage for those three hours spanning the later morning and into the early afternoon.
I reserve the weekends to myself, since we do have a morning newspaper that my brother can occupy himself with to some degree on both Saturdays and Sundays. And so it was that I had been looking forward to the weekend just past because I expected to be able to sun both my front and my back.
However, there was no morning sunshine whatsoever this past weekend. Yet today, we are back to a brilliantly sunny morning that I can do nothing with.
I led this morning's viewing entertainment with a 2015 movie titled Our Brand Is Crisis ─ and it was definitely an interesting feature. I had placed it on a list at some point last year because Zoe Kazan was part of the cast ─ I rather like the actress. It was sheer bonus that the main character was played by very attractive Sandra Bullock, who was actually in her early 50s when the film was produced.
I now see that the movie was somewhat based upon a 2005 documentary of the same name that I suppose I will have to try and locate ─ maybe later this week.
Anyway, my brother never had his fill of T.V. until around 1:10 p.m., and then sought some bed rest before apparently leaving here afoot to bus off somewhere (I had sought a nap, and found him gone when I finished).
My wife ─ who spent last night here at home ─ never had to work today, but she did go somewhere both in the latter morning and the early afternoon (which was when I sought my nap). Just before 10 a.m., however, she issued me an invitation.
Today is her eldest son's 26th birthday, so she is going to take him and his younger brother to have an early supper ─ she suggested that it would be around 5 - 5:30 p.m. Did I also want to come?
Well, of course I feel an obligation, even though I do not like going out to eat ─ or going out at all, in fact.
But it will give me an opportunity for some photos.
However, it means that I will not be having the day's scheduled exercising. I did, however, get in some frontal sunning. At 3:21 p.m. I began just over 44 minutes' worth while slouched low in a deck- or lawn-chair in the backyard as I faced directly into the Sun, all while I was attired in just a pair of gym shorts.
Tomorrow I will have to make some sort of concession where my back is concerned, for I haven't sunned it for maybe two weeks. The problem for me is that my face loses its colouring rather quickly if I do not expose it to sunshine, and there are only going to be a few more days this year in which I can do any sunning ─ I hate to throw away a sunning day exclusively to give exposure to my back.
So maybe tomorrow I will compromise by maybe sunning my back and then add a little extra time for my front as well. That may work out favourably.
It is already after 5 p.m., so I am going to bring today's post to a close. Any photos I take later today will appear in tomorrow's post, if all goes well.
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