{"id":42858,"date":"2020-01-20T09:16:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T16:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=42858"},"modified":"2020-01-21T15:51:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T22:51:32","slug":"hey-we-made-it-through-another-wild-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=42858","title":{"rendered":"Hey! We Made It Through Another Wild Weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Money talks … but all mine ever says is good-bye.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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OK, it is going to be a great week! All will be well with the world!\u00a0 Now that is out of my system, let’s see how it goes.<\/p>\n

While awaiting the clock to strike eleven, we got a call from Rebecca, and she wanted to drop over for a visit.\u00a0 It is MLK Day, and the kids and she were out of school for the holiday. Yeah!<\/p>\n

Rebecca brought Sue a new “battery-powered” Makita jacket.\u00a0 Zack found it and could not resist.\u00a0 We are charging up the batteries now! Thanks, kids, for being so thoughtful!<\/p>\n

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Now we can call Sue the\u00a0 “Electric Grandma”!<\/p><\/div>\n

Miss Lilly and I did some serious fruit picking the front yard.\u00a0 We got tangerines, oranges, blood oranges, and grapefruit filling an entire Ralpbh’s shopping bag.\u00a0 Silly Lilly could hardly lift the bag when we were finished!<\/p>\n

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We visited for an hour before they headed out to lunch and over to Becca’s folk’s house<\/p><\/div>\n

After they departed, I headed to the yard for an hour to dig weeds and prepare for the spring planting frenzy expected in the next thirty days!<\/p>\n

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The ground is now ready! The bag of potatoes has sprouted so they will be planted, and we will have spuds in about70 days!<\/p><\/div>\n

The pomegranate tree was quite prolific this past season, and I need to trim the sucker.\u00a0 I usually go to YouTube and watch a video on cutting before I begin because I can’t remember year to year.<\/p>\n

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When I get done, it will be significantly smaller! The fence is six feet, so I have about six feet to cut off!<\/p><\/div>\n

We had lunch with the pizza making it’s finally landing on our plates.\u00a0 I scrambled up three eggs and microwaved some bacon to add to min.\u00a0 We also shared a can of soup!\u00a0 Good groceries.<\/p>\n

After lunch, I worked on the Starlighter’s website<\/strong><\/a> from the dance on Saturday before going to the back yard and attacking the garden.<\/p>\n

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The grapes got a significant haircut. I threw the cuttings onto the ground and will have our gardner clean everything up this Friday. I’m getting too old to do that kind of work, haha!<\/p><\/div>\n

We have about 700 square feet in cultivation in the back yard, so I completed about 200 square feet today.\u00a0 I did the most comfortable first as I am just getting started in the garden and plan to sneak up on it!<\/p>\n

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Each of the beds surrounded by brick is four feet wide and twenty-five feet long or one hundred square feet. You see two of the four in the back yard.<\/p><\/div>\n

The hand shovel is all I need, and I can sit on the small walls and work (that was a birthday present to myself a few years ago!).<\/p>\n

By 3:00 PM, I was tired, and Shaun Hannity was off-the-air, so I went in to watch a little TV with my bride before cleaning up for the Monday ritual!<\/p>\n

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We got in under the wire as Melanie’s closed at 5:30 PM since they were having their Christmas Party a little late.<\/p><\/div>\n

We shared a pizza with Irene and then headed home to watch some TV.\u00a0 I finished the Starlighter’s website about 1:30 AM and then crashed hard!<\/p>\n

The poor guy below was having gopher problems, and he discovered a new way to deal with them!\u00a0 He apparently poured a gallon or so of gasoline into the gopher It’s pretty funny!\u00a0 I sent the video to Zack and Jon in case they had any ideas!<\/p>\n

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