{"id":48347,"date":"2020-08-21T17:01:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T00:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=48347"},"modified":"2020-08-22T08:03:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T15:03:01","slug":"friday-is-hear-oh-dear-the-rate-race-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=48347","title":{"rendered":"Friday Is Here, Oh Dear; The Race Begins!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thought For The Day –\u00a0 The meaning of opaque is unclear.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

My day started at 4:30 AM when Robin and I had coffee and sat at the table, solving the world’s problems.\u00a0 Robin and Colleen have helped move me forward in my new life, and I thank them for being my sounding boards!<\/p>\n

Colleen and I talked this morning about losing Sue, and then I got to thinking about my family.\u00a0 Sue gave me my family back after years of being isolated from them.\u00a0 I will always treasure the great times we had with cousin Kat, Aunt Opal, and Aunt Edith. As I walk around the house, I can still see them joining us for family gatherings and watching them and Sue in the kitchen doing their thing.<\/p>\n

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Losing my family was hard to deal with in the past several years.<\/p><\/div>\n

Robin and I had our coffee, and as she got ready for work, I walked the yard.\u00a0 The wall is coming along great, but I asked for one more course to be added so the equipment would not be seen when walking around the pool.\u00a0 The sounds are so muffled now you can’t hear it when in the pool itself!<\/p>\n

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Build that wall!<\/p><\/div>\n

The garden is doing OK, but it is bare in several areas awaiting the time to plant the winter garden.\u00a0 I recommend planting one bed in root crops (carrots, beets, and onions), another in cole crops (broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, and bok choy), and another in salad greens (lettuces, mesclun, spinach, and chard). I plant winter crops closer together to prevent erosion from hard winter rains.<\/p>\n

The dirt has been turned, and amendments are added and recovered with mulch, so it is ready to go.\u00a0 I have to let the hot months come and go first.<\/p>\n

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The new wall is in the upper left-hand corner.<\/p><\/div>\n

The watermelon and pumpkins seem to be coming on healthy, so today they get a treat, a beautiful sizeable Gromulch drink!<\/p>\n

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The garden is almost cleaned out.<\/p><\/div>\n

I looked into the grapes with care and found some berries ready for picking.\u00a0 The Concord grapes stay on the vine quite a while.\u00a0 Another week or two and they will be history for this year.<\/p>\n

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Some Concord grapes were discovered hiding beneath the leaves!<\/p><\/div>\n

Time to walk as the scale revealed, I put a couple of pounds on the old carcass.\u00a0 I walked up to Boot Barn and got a new belt in the thirty-six-inch range, the 38s and 40s don’t work anymore.<\/p>\n

The dermatologist called, and I need one more surgery, so I set that up for next Thursday.\u00a0 This face is going to look like something only a mother could love if keep it up at this pace.\u00a0 Next time, I plan to have the doctor look where I can’t, especially on the back.<\/p>\n

My scale is back to lying through its transistors!\u00a0 Two-hundred-one pounds this morning, so I have to eat less Indian food and cut down on the martinis.\u00a0 So, that means, time for a walk!\u00a0 Not just a walk but a long walk at a quick pace.\u00a0 I was zooming without the computer!<\/p>\n

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Three plus miles at almost two and a half miles an hour. I was fearful of going faster for worrying about breaking glass as my massive body passed by fragile windows.<\/p><\/div>\n

Within two blocks, someone, or something, was honking at me, so I stopped and carefully listened!\u00a0 Those pesky morning glories love to tease me when I walk!<\/p>\n

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Robin came by as she is staying this evening, so we shared a margarita.\u00a0 We (mostly Robin!!) worked on Kat’s writings.\u00a0 My cousin, who passed a few years back, loved to write, but her folks never encouraged her.\u00a0 I found a binder in the house, and one of the stories was entitled “My Misspent Life.”\u00a0 I attempted to read it by the ink was old, the paper was yellow, my eyes have seen better days, so I asked Robin to transcribe it.\u00a0 She has worked weeks on the binder, and now it is done.<\/p>\n

My next job is to go through the collection and see if I can relate it to Kat’s life with dates.\u00a0 I plan to add photos where it makes sense and then put it in a book form, write a forward, and send it to family.<\/p>\n

OK, Mary called and was leaving work, so I am off to meet her for dinner at The Orange County Mining Company as they just reopened using all their surrounding patio space. We know this place well as we have danced there with the Starlighters in the past.<\/p>\n

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A lovely 90-degree evening in SoCal!<\/p><\/div>\n

We enjoyed a lite dinner with sauteed mushrooms and a baked potato with all the healthy fixings. We were looking for artichokes, but alas, they said, “Out of season!”\u00a0 We enjoyed some wine, pleasant conversation, a few giggles, and a great view of the city.<\/p>\n

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Pretty as a picture!<\/p><\/div>\n

Mary faced away from the Sun and called attention to the reflection in the windows of the homes on the hills.\u00a0 We can see her house from here just to the right of the street on the left-hand side of the photo.\u00a0 The reflections change quickly as the Sun dips into the ocean and rests before coming up tomorrow in the east.<\/p>\n

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The Sun’s angle begins to reflect against the homes in the surrounding hills.<\/p><\/div>\n

We returned to her home and watched two movies, “Red 2” with Bruce Willis and “Runaway Bride.”\u00a0 Both films were gigglers.<\/p>\n

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Laughing is excellent medicine, according to Doctor Mary, and she is quite right.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Grey Ghost was ready to call it a day, and at 11:00 PM, we headed home.\u00a0 Mary called to make sure I was OK, just as I turned onto my street.\u00a0 All was well, and I was in high spirits.\u00a0 It was a lovely evening, a great movie, fantastic company, and thirty minutes of Bluegrass country music on the way home.<\/p>\n

A lovely way to end the evening, thinking about my Sue: in the picture below, we are out to dinner at a local Italian restaurant, and she just told a funny.\u00a0 She would tickle herself and give me that unique smile.<\/p>\n

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Always beautiful.<\/p><\/div>\n

Robin has crashed already, and I fell into bed, and it was lights out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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