Fact: 90% of U.S. money has cocaine on it. Either from exposure or drug use, a study revealed that 90% of the dollars circulating in the economy have cocaine on them. Traces of cocaine were found to reach 0.006 micrograms (several thousand times smaller than salt). The green dye on dollars causes cocaine residue to stick to the bills.
It’s the 28th, which means we have been married for eight months! Time goes so fast. We are enjoying each other. I have now realized that there is no place I would rather be but by your side; happy anniversary, sweetheart; more amazing years awaits us.
According to the weatherman, we had about three hours before the thunderstorm was scheduled to hit, so we got a coffee and headed for the backyard.
Our lemon tree doesn’t seem to be doing very well in your location at the edge of the west wall, so I moved it adjacent to our lime tree, and it will be in the sun all day long. We hope this will solve the problem; otherwise, we may have to replace the tree because it could be root bound.
We worked in the yard for two hours before the rains came.
We walked around the entire backyard looking for things that may have to be done, especially before the rain starts. Our Mr. Lincoln rose is doing exceptionally well, and the blossoms are the size of a softball.
Mr. Lincoln loves his home in the sun.
I fell in love with the Julia child rose when I saw her in the Rose Garden at the Huntington Library. They called this rose the Julia Child rose because Julia child, the world-famous chef, loved to cook with butter, lots of butter, and the rose is the color of butter.
My Julia Child is also doing well.
Right on schedule, the rain began to come down. We thought it would be a very mild rain, but around 1 o’clock, it came down in buckets. We got over 3/4 of an inch of rain and about two hours.
We discovered our rain gutter on the front of the house was not functioning correctly. So in the middle of the storm, I found a ladder and went up to investigate.
I got drenched, but I did discover that a little birdie decided to try to make a nest right near the downspout, and all of his efforts ended up blocking the downspout. When I removed all the twigs, water gushed out of the pipe, emptying the entire 45-foot long rain gutter in seconds.
One of my dad’s favorite sayings came to mind as I watched the downpour. “It’s raining harder than a cow pissing on a flat rock.”
We felt sorry for the mailman, so since I was already soaked to the bone, I walked out and met him and got our mail.
I asked Mary, “What do you call a bear stuck out in the rain?” She seemed a little puzzled, then her face lit up, and she said, “A drizzly bear.”
The Silver Fox was dirty already, so I didn’t mind him getting a bath. We had him in the driveway because Mary and I planned to get the Easter decorations over the garage attic. With the car outside, we pulled down the ladder from the ceiling and searched for Easter amongst the thirty-plus Christmas boxes.
By 2 o’clock, the rainstorm stopped, so Mary and I got some towels out and dried the Silver Fox, making it look like it just came back from the car wash.
What do you call dangerous precipitation? A rain of terror.
We got 0.75 inches in about two hours!
By 3 o’clock, the sun was out, and we again walked the garden because it was so beautiful after a rainstorm.
After the bath, everything looked fresh!
Our red maple tree in the front yard is coming on strong. We got this tree at the same time we got another avocado and orange tree for the backyard; this was the only tree that made it. The other trees are going to be replaced by Moon Nursery.
The tree was beautiful.
Meanwhile, inside the house, Mary was unpacking our respective Easter decorations. Last year we had unpacked them and put them up in our homes, but we are in our new home this year, so everything had to find a new place.
Some of the decorations were so old they were not fixable, so we made donations. The workbench is full of Easter decorations that require glue here and there.
We got the Easter decorations down!
Mary fixed an early dinner around 4:00 PM. She is pretty creative because she asked if I wanted a grilled cheese sandwich, and I said, “certainly!” As I came to the dinner table, I did not see a sandwich; I saw a waffle with melted cheese on it; what a great idea.
We were both tired after today’s working around the house, so we went to the office, and Mary worked on her puzzle while I worked on our website. But at 8 o’clock, we had hit the sack and watched a movie about Rubie The Dog. It was a true-life story of a border collie out of control, and the police officer picked her up from the pound and decided she was going to become a K9 Officer.
