Coffee and Computers are the way to start the day!
Guess what? This morning, Mary beat me to getting up! I was still half asleep when Scout started wagging his tail. Mary was already gone when I finally opened my eyes! So, I stumbled to the backyard with Scout, and he looked at me like, “What took you so long, buddy?” Clearly, I need to up my game!
Returning inside, I met Mary, who was busy at her computer, making arrangements to visit Baa Haaba, Maine, for her CME class. We will revisit Colleen in September and spend several days seeing the three grandkids and four great-grandkids! Last year was fun, and I suspect this year will not be different!
We spent a few minutes checking out what the pundits were saying about the presidential “debate” and as expected, Biden was a disaster.
We visited the garden for a bit and did some severe rose pruning. We emptied Mary’s wheelbarrow twice with all the clippings from the front and back yard.
The roses and apples are having a party.
The large tomatoes are coming on strong. The green beauty will be red in about two weeks without the use of chemicals!! Green tomatoes are edible, so when they look like this, slice them up and fry them! Because they have a lower water content, green tomatoes are perfectly suitable for sauteing and frying.
Oh my! You are a beauty!!
We checked the red, white, and blue flowers since the 4th is coming soon!
OK, white, blue and red!
In the front yard I put a wire just anove the fence on the left side of the yard; no birdies can sit on the fence and so what birdies to best!
While Mary continued pruning, I connected the mini-tower to the automated watering system.
We worked for several hours and finally sat down after trimming the backyard east-wall roses and putting an entire bag of redwood bark mulch in the movable planters.
Yay, the roses have been mulched! Now they can relax and work on their summer tan.
We talked to Robin, and in the background, we kept hearing an “alarm.” They thought there might be a fire in the wall. Bob tried everything to get the chirping to stop. It was the carbon monoxide alarm. The detector battery turned out to be “dead,” but the alarm said, “Replace my battery!” We think Robin just wanted to visit the hunks!
Did Nick miss the fire engine?
It was dinner time, and Mary fixed a great meal using the steak from last night plus fresh goodies from the garden,
After dinner, I opened the swim spa cover, and we sat in the hot water for 45 minutes. After coming inside, we continued binge-watching The Good Doctor. We are at season four, episode 15, now.
Time to get the giant soup bowl (swim spa) ready for a relaxing dip after dinner!
We finally decided to hit the hay around 11:00 p.m. Tomorrow afternoon, we are going to celebrate Michele’s birthday at her home.
