Fact: A flock of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
We had breakfast this morning, and we got to use our new waffle-making machine; it was a lot of fun. We wrote the settings down on the box, and this time the waffles came out perfect. Thank you, David and Dianne!
The three of us sat around the dining room table, and we just talked for a couple of hours. Mark packed and was ready to go to the train station worries headed to San Diego.
Bob and Robin came over around 10:00 AM to visit Mark some more, and Mark made his reservations for the trans to San Diego. We headed to the OC Transportation Center at noon, which is only five miles from our home at Casa Valencia.
The new center is adjacent to the Anaheim Train Station and close to our home.
Mark headed to San Diego to facilitate a meeting. He brings together various elements of designers, makers, users, and maintainers of Navy equipment and attempts to solve problems by bringing their expertise to the table. This trip involved some type of elevator on a ship.
The Duda’s nad us took the van and went to Roger’s Gardens in Costa Mesa, where it was the last day of Tomatomania.
Did You Know? Tomatomania is a massive community of enthusiastic tomato lovers and the world’s largest (and most fun) tomato seedling sale! It’s what the New York Times called “the tomato freaks’ Woodstock,” and if you’re crazy about tomatoes, this is the place for you!
It started in the early 90s at Hortus, a trendsetting nursery in Pasadena, California. Today Tomatomania includes classes, sales events, tomato tastings, and impromptu social gatherings at famous nurseries and garden destinations across the state.
They had more than 100 varieties of tomatoes on display!
Mary and I were after about ten tomatoes. Even though our garden is not in yet, we decided to plant them where space in the flower garden was available. The girls grabbed the carts, and Bob and I manhandled the extra heavy containers of plants.
I did mention to the group the worst thing about salsa dancing is getting the tomato stains out afterward.
Shopping at Roger’s Gardens.
We enjoyed the visit and took twelve tomatoes plants home plus some other “must-haves” to put into the garden. Mary loved the crazy names of the plants.
Bob chimed in, asking, “What do you call a tomato with a trumpet? A tooty fruity.”
Mary loves Tomatomania and finds the “interesting oddities!”
We could not help but buy one of these new varieties. Mary thought about this for a while and questioned us, “If a tomato is a fruit, is ketchup a jam?”
This plant has possibilities.
When we get home, we research the tomatoes to know what we got.
The tomato cages are marked carefully!
These will be super in salads!
The carts are loaded, and Bob and I get appointed to push them up the hill towards checkout. Then we went back for the girls and pushed them up also.
We made our selections!
There are several more Tomatomania sessions ground the SoCal area before mid-April, but this one is convenient.
Every year we go to populate our garden!
Shopping is over, and time for a glass of vino. We stopped at The Farmhouse, but it was a two-hour wait o have a drink; we do NOT wait that long.
Robin suggested the Elks Lodge, and it was unanimous; we roared the Mommy Van! Bob and I were a little embarrassed, so we made loud engine sounds as we departed the lot. The girls ducked down in their seats, a little red-faced.
They are playing word games at the Elks.
We had two glasses of wine and talked until the three o’clock bell rang and the ledge closed.
A happy group of folks!
It was too early to go home, so we decided to harass Jan. One call, and she was ready to receive this crazy group. We stayed with her for a good hour before going home to Casa Valencia.
The visit was terrific; we could not stop talking!
It is incredible how good friends can get together and talk about nothing over and over and enjoy it so much!
I, of course, am shy and just sat back and watched!
After a while, we were getting hungry and mosied home. Bob drove because they were going to borrow the van for a few days while their car is in the shop.
De decided to stay home and eat, so Robin and Mary went through the frig and freezer, finding all sorts of goodies. Game on!
We needed onions, so the Doc searched with her trusty steed, Scout, The Wonder Dog.
To the mini-garden for onions!
Robin & Bob mentioned the kitchen, but Mary and I sat at the dining room table and laughed and giggled. We found a frozen set of pierogies in the freezer, and that was our main course; it was delicious. I love it when we dig into the fridge and get rid of the “leftovers” because that makes more room for next week’s cooking.
Get out the heavy equipment; it is dinner time!
The evening was marvelous, and I think Bob and Robin departed around 8 PM. The little stinkers even did the dishes, and I noticed that scout took a new position right in front of the dishwasher; he is an intelligent baby.
Get out the heavy equipment; it is dinner time!
After the kids left, Mary and I found our readers, opened our electronic books, and probably managed three or four pages before we crashed. As Frank Sinatra would say, “it was a very good day.”
