It’s Monday morning, so it’s time to listen to one of my favorite songs from the 1950s. Today’s pick is Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White by Perez Prado, released in 1955.
In 1955 I was in the sixth grade becoming a very fart smeller, oops, smart feller! Junior High School was right around the corner meaning I was soon to be smarter that Mom and Dad (or I thought so back then). Now the older I get the smarter they were.
Mary and I strolled through the garden after waking up, getting ready for the day’s adventures in the enchanting world of the garden.
The apple tree is growing vigorously, and I estimate that we are about two to three weeks away from harvesting.
We can see apple pie in the near future.
As we walked among the planters, you could see how large the tomato plants have grown this year. Mary will be using our portable ladder to harvest them. Most of them tower over her.
The tomatoes are higher than an elephants eye!
The berry planter is in the early stages of maturation, and we can already spot a few black berries nestled within the foliage. These berries are currently unripe and will likely take approximately two to three weeks to reach full ripeness. Once they do, we can expect a plentiful harvest throughout the summer months.
Did we say berries?
The Sweet Peas continue to be abundant and will probably last another month until we have to pull them out.
We have flowers galore!
After our Irish vacation, my poor little body somehow attracted six pounds of blubber, which had to go away before our Caribbean adventure. Mary claimed she lost weight, but when she was on the bathroom scale, she was holding onto the towel rack!
We are off to Peak Performance, our personal training group. As was waddled in, they pointed and giggled. We knew we were in for trouble. These people are first class, they know their stuff and even through we feel like a dish rag when we leave we feel better every day!
We only use the most updated equipment!
We went to Ralph’s market to get a quart of milk, but $350 later, we rolled out with seventeen bags of goodies. Next time, we’ll make sure to have breakfast before going to the market.
Breakfast! Yeah!!
We spent a good hour putting everything away because we prefer to label the dates that are often hidden on the packaging. After that, we had lunch, which included ten California rolls from Ralph’s, a local specialty containing a good number of quality ingredients.
At 1:30 pm we headed to see Dr. Rose to see about surgery on Paul’s hand to get rid of the arthritis pain. A trapeziectomy is a surgical procedure that removes the trapezium, a small cube-shaped bone in the wrist that connects the thumb to the wrist joint, to treat thumb arthritis. The surgery is usually performed under general anesthetic and can take 60–90 minutes.
Returning home, we visited Jeff and brought him some of Mary’s stuffed squash. We stayed about thirty minutes and finished off a glass of wine that we had just picked up from Trader Joe’s on the way home from the doctor.
We are still recovering so we crashed around 9:00 pm! Tomorrow we should be back to “normal!”
