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We go to the gym with our first-aid kits and handwritten 3×5 cards with “If Found, Please Call 555-55-5555 or 911” printed clearly. After the 90-minute workout, we are often in a daze and wander around the parking lot looking for our car.
Since it was Wednesday, we hurried home and cleaned the house so the house would be clean for the house cleaners! Yes, you read it correctly.
When Domi and crew arrived, we shoved off for the Santa Ana Elks to have lunch with Bill Capps, and perhaps Bob Z. Bob Z. never showed up, so he had to be caught in a meeting; we went ahead and cavorted without him! We all had the abongidas (Mexican Meatball) soup, perfect for a cold, drizzly day!
After a nice lunch, we headed home with plans to work in the garden, but the weatherman slipped and turned the thermostat down to the lower 60s, so we stayed inside.
Mary called me outside after she went for the mail to see the azaleas, which were going wild!
Surprise! The Azaleas are blooming.
Azaleas, part of the Rhododendron family, are known for their vibrant, showy flowers and are native to Asia, Europe, and North America. They come in various colors, bloom in late winter to early summer, and are often grown as ornamentals.
Mary was in her cooking garb, as we are having her special baked chicken drumsticks this evening. She always uses an apron when she rings the chicken’s necks! (Ask her about working on a chicken farm as a young girl).
She also fixed two heaping soup mugs of homemade beans (the beans were from our garden last year!).
How in the world was I blessed with a beautiful partner,an amazing person, AND is a magnificent chef? Somewhere in the past eighty years, I must have done something right!
The good doctor checks out her babies.
The flowers will be joined by two giant sunflowers tomorrow. We are also thinking about planting white climbing roses in the white fence above the wall; we just need two large pots to start them.
Color everywhere!
We visited Jeff and brought him some homemade bean soup and some drumsticks. We stayed with him for a while, which is always interesting.
We have decided to go to Laguna Nursery on the way home from Girls Night Out to see if they might have some climbing roses; if they do we will need a couple of LARGE pots!
They have an amazing assortment of goodies for the gardener (and they are across the street from Benji’s).
Returning home, we had dinner and then binge-watched “Everwood” until almost midnight; we are finally on season two, around episode twenty-five, and only seventy to go! Oh my!
