It’s a rainy Tuesday and apart from cleaning up the yard, shed and house there isn’t much going on. Penny felt OK today and she’s been wanting to see the Sherlock Holmes movie that’s out now…so we went to the movies.
The movie was fun and entertaining, nothing taxing for the brain, and I enjoyed it. Penny did, too.
After that we returned books to the library and picked up some new ones.
This week has been uneventful but still fun if one has the correct attitude. The highlight of my trip to Publix yesterday came at the bakery. I picked up a loaf of unsliced Chicago Italian bread and got the baker’s attention to slice it simultaneously with a grandma arriving at the counter with a sixish-year-old boy. The baker-lady looked at us and said to me, “I’m going to get this kid a cookie before he gets upset. He looks like he could beat me up and you don’t”. The kid was there, in fact, to get a cookie as part of their cookie club. It brought back memories of us when K&C were small. I found one of their cookie cards when I was cleaning up the shed a while back. Anyway, I enjoyed the little encounter at the bakery and after I got the bread sliced I told the lady that I would try to be more intimidating next time.
As all 5 of my readers know my deck and shed have a view of the elementary schoolyard and on school days there are usually a bunch of kids out there having recess or PT or whatever. Last Friday I was clearing out the clutter in the shed and noticed a lot of screaming going on. It turned out that 4 little girls were watching me. Every time they saw me either inside the doorway or coming out the door onto the deck they would scream and run away to the other side of the schoolyard. They would then gather up again and walk back to where they could see the door again and repeat the routine.
About the 4th time they did this after I noticed them they finally waved and said “Hi”. That got them a reprimand from the teacher and the game was over. I did wave back and say hi to them.
My tomato experiment is officially over. The plants are uprooted and I have a bag full of pink and green tomatoes to dispose of. We had a couple of days of freezing weather and more is on the way. Once the tomatoes see temperatures less than around 45 degrees they lose their flavor permanently. If I want good tomatoes next fall I must plant earlier and/or make a hothouse to keep the temperature and light consistent with flavorful maters.
I harvested these while C&C were here and Penny made us tomato soup.
This is what the plants looked like after the freeze. At least I had no problem this year getting tomatoes to grow!
Both of the outside cats have been showing up AM and PM for the past 3 days. As I said – nothing exciting going on. After the holidays it provides a good chance to unwind.
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