Sad but true!
We are learning to observe as we glide through the garden every morning. We especially look out for our twenty-eight tomato plants because they are vulnerable to many diseases. Dr. Mary does the initial examination, and then I follow the doctor’s directions and take the appropriate action.
I hate it when Mary’s diagnosis says, “The plant is lonely and needs someone to talk to!”. I feel silly sitting on my little chair next to a forlorn tomato attempting to carry on an intelligent conversation. Sometimes the tomato is smarter than me, which is embarrassing!
We are sharpening our senses, looking for trouble.
We jumped in The Silver Fox and headed for PT at 8:25 am. I dropped Mary off and went to my burger joint, and this morning, I had a burger with double onions! I got caught! As Mary exited the PT activity and sat in the car, she noticed a whiff of onion. I guess here olfactory senses were working overtime as I tried to talk and inhale simultaneously.
We drove home and began doing our chores. Mary finished off taking down Easter while I was relegated to prepping for the expected rainstorm coming later on tonight. I covered the roll-around cart, removed the plastic packing boxes, and removed the trash cans. The stencils arrived from Amazon, so I painted our address onto the top of the trashcans, but I may have over-achieved.
After stenciling them all, I had one too many – oops! I think I put our address on the neighbor’s trash can; I hope the paint remover will work.
The front flower beds got a dose of Miracle Grow, and the trees got some “Moon Juice.”
Easter went away!
We opted out of going to the Elks as we will be going tomorrow anyway; we worked until 4:00 pm and were dragging! We may have to return to work; this retirement is a killer!
Scout came over to sniff us after hours of working around the house; I guess he wanted to make sure we got everything done.
He was barking to the tune, “I am pretty” He was right; he was quite pretty.
After a few minutes of Scout itemizing what we failed to do, we were off again. Our American flag was getting tattered, and I lowered it and attempted to change it, but alas, the new one was only 3×5; I needed a 4×6. Amazon to the rescue, we will have two new heavy-duty outside American Flags tomorrow.
I asked Scout, in my best Aussie dialect, “Where was the flag of the USA first hoisted?” He should have known that from his citizenship test, but he didn’t! So I told him, “On a flag pole!” He bit me twice, once for the question and once for the answer!
He apologized and reminded us that he is “Doggone pretty!”
Rain? What rain? The skies were bright and clear. I used some magic to make a cloud laugh. It was myst tickle.
Where is the rain?
By 4:00 pm, the billowing white clouds disappeared, and the grey waterlogged rain clouds replaced these beauties. We knew rain was on the way!
Magnificent skies.
We were hungry and too tired to fix anything, plus Mary’s nose had been rep[processing by burger scent all afternoon, and you know what that means! In-An-Out, here we come. I know the order by heart! Two cheeseburgers, hold the onions and lite-spread on the first, double onions on the second! Fries, please!
By the time we got to the window, we needed one more order of fries to take to Jan’s on our way home. We needed to drop by and see her anyway because her wish for a straw so she could drink out of the bottle was answered by Amazon!
22″ straws for Jan!
We joined Jan in a glass of vino, and I polished off a beer (non-alcoholic, of source). We visited with Jan for an hour and mentioned we were looking for small pie plates, ceramic in nature. Jan hurried off to the garage and brought back eight perfect little ceramic pans.
We have a total of eight, and they are Aulberge, top-of-the-line oven to dishwasher safe!
Then Jan looked through our new book on “small pies” and made an order! She also demonstrated the proper way to potate* wine using a straw! We laughed and headed home for one more pass around the house to ensure we were battened down for the onslaught!
* the act or an instance of drinking or inhaling! (For those of you in Rio Linda)
Jan got her 18″ straws!
We watched “Jungle Cruise” with the Rock. It tells the alternate history of the captain of a small riverboat who takes a scientist and her brother through a jungle in search of the Tree of Life while competing against a German expedition and cursed conquistadors.
We had to laugh, it was funny!
When we hit the sack, my phone went off, and this picture showed up. My lady only gets prettier all the time.
Three years later, still beautiful!
We went to sleep at about 10:00 pm after I took Scout for his pre-bedtime activities. The skies looked threatening, and rain was on the way!
