No Raccoons, No Squash, First Tomato

We are back home. We slept in this morning. We haven’t unpacked yet—but we are well rested.

All was well when we arrived back at home. The cat feeder worked. The garden waterer worked. No raccoons had raided the cat food. But one cat was missing. Buzz, who had not been there for 2 days before we left was not here now. I was worried about Buzz because he was foolish enough to approach the raccoon. He also had another wound on his hindquarter that was just beginning to heal.

For some reason all my squash plants died. We had a bad storm come through while we were gone and it may have beaten the tender vines to death but I really don’t know why they all didn’t make it.

My first real order of business today was to get my tooth fixed again. The repair Dr Woo made a couple of months ago popped out when I was playing with little Sophie. So this morning she again repaired the chip in my front tooth (#9 for those of you who know which tooth is which). This time she fixed it so it won’t be under pressure when I grit my teeth as I tickle my granddaughter.

The Feagin’s trashcan has a pedal on it to open the lid, ours doesn’t. Twice today I tried to open ours by stepping on a non-existent pedal.

I mowed the lawn today and found once again that I had to rest after mowing the front yard, before doing the back. Then as I was finishing the back yard I got tired just before I finished. I don’t tolerate the heat as well as I used to. I don’t know if this is temporary or just my age catching up with me.

I then did some garden management. Tied up tomatoes and searched for any ripe vegetables. To my surprise I found a ripe cucumber and 1 ripe tomato. There are many more tomatoes on the way—I’m still keeping my fingers crossed on the harvest.

Penny and I had a movie night tonight. We rented National Treasure II, popped a 100-calorie bag of popcorn for each of us and had a small glass of wine while we watched the movie.

KITTY UPDATE--Tonight when I fed the cats Buzz showed up. His wound has healed over and he seemed normal. The big news is old lady Marmalade is letting me touch her a little bit. She still is very cautious but she is acting the way all the others did just before they decided they would allow me to pet them. At one point tonight I had Buzz, Velcro and Meredith sitting in front of me and I was successfully scratching all 3 chins with my 2 hands.

Tomorrow morning, weather permitting, I will go kayaking in search of blackberries.