Mary is visiting two “old” friends.
7:30 am, and we are up and heading to the kitchen for the heart-starting coffee!! We have a new blend called “Halloween Surprise” (or something like that). It tasted pretty good when mixed with milk and bat saliva (it is Halloween time).
Mary is brunching at Polly’s Pies with her old work buddies. She is trying to avoid talking about the one time they all wore matching Hawaiian shirts to the office. Let’s hope they stick to discussing the delicious food instead!
I, being the dutiful house-husband (and part-time slave), stayed home and made a cherry pie, cleaned the house, washed the dog, alphabetically sorted the spices, did two loads of washing, changed the air in the tires, changed clothes so I would look presentable, and baked some tookies, hoping her friends would drop by for a visit.
Why did the pie go to the dentist? Because it needed a filling.
On the bright side, I lost three pounds! Now, I just need to find where I left them. I was like a one-legged man at a tow-tapping contest!
Mary was off, and I was working my fingers to the bone.
Polly’s Pies was an excellent choice!
Breakfast was super, according to Mary, so we now have a new place to go!
It was a fantastic meeting of old friends.
Mary’s friends had other things to do and went their merry way. Well, at least the house is cleaned up for our cleaning people who are coming later in the afternoon.
The restaurant was two blocks from Trader Joe’s, so Mary stopped to shop, getting some meat and two-buck Chuck!
Before leaving the house, we sliced off a piece of the cherry pie and took it to Jeff.
Jeff loves cherry pie!
We then went to Home Depot because we have room in the garden and wanted to get a set of hooks to hang on the block wall to hold the tools we often use on the patio!
We met an old friend who was on a severe diet. He had lost 150 pounds and was only 160 to start with. His name is Bones!
We headed to Home Depot to get some veggies for the garden!
While at Home Depot, we discovered they had pumpkins, so we began collecting them for our annual pumpkin carving day coming up on the 27th. So far, we have seven RSVPs (The Adams family, the Duda family, and Irene) and are awaiting Zack, Joe, and Connor’s reply. We hope the Zaitz will also join us.
We found a Scout decoration that will soon sit on the front steps during the season.
A little doggie came home with us.
When we arrived home, Domi and the cleaning crew were just arriving, around 4:00 pm.
After suiting up in our finest grubbies, we bravely ventured into the wilds of our garden to embark on the noble quest of planting twenty new veggies in the uncharted territory of our available space. It was a daring adventure filled with dirt, determination, and the occasional wayward worm who seemed rather surprised by our sudden invasion of their territory.
We received a text from Arizona. The campers, Beck and family, were trying out their new equipment, and their puppies went along.
Someone went camping!
The sun had set, and Mary and I were busy shelling the beans into Mason jars on the patio.
Beans beans the musical fruit, the more you eat the more …………
YouTube had some great ideas to assist Mary in her next bean harvesting effort…
Guess what Mary is getting for Christmas, a bean combine!
We had a great idea: why not turn on the patio TV? We installed it two years ago but have never used it. The controller’s batteries were dead, so we quickly remedied the situation.
With a push of a button, we were watching “To Russia With Love,” a 1960s James Bond thriller. We sat outside on the patio until all the beans were shelled and were halfway through “Dr. No” before going inside. It was 10:00 p.m. when we hit the sack!
We sat in our comfy patio chairs, sipped our vino and watched TV!
The beans are now safe and sound in their little jar and will be put in the pantry to await their moment of glory when they become bean soup!
Lots of work but worth the effort.
Time to hit the sack, Mary zoomed around locking the doors, bringing in Scout and brushing her tooth!
Mary flew off to Neverland, and we slept for hours!
How did Precious get here before me?
Lucille’s purse (Jeff’s wife, who passed away in 2020) has traveled again!
