Daily Notes- August 9th

                          
 

Well, I learned a few things about "f...king" New Blogger today.  It took me multiple tries to just get the picture sort of in the center and the type black and not underlined.  I HATE new Blogger. And they "suggest" I send comments questions to them by pressing the "help" icon.  Anyone out there know where that might actually be located?  Frank from my "phone call" would say it's up Blogger's ass.

Not the BEST Sunday mood today.  I washed two loads of clothes.  It was clean sheet day.  We have floral pillowcases and top sheet this week- cotton not linen. Bottom sheet is linen. 

My black wood pencil post bed.  Very high off the ground.  We'll most likely need a step stool or ladder to get into bed in the years to come.  My two white camp shirts.  I should have gotten them out of the drier sooner.  I might have to iron them.  Just a little.  

The bottom sheet from last week is in need of a major mending project.  Husband made the small mending patch the sheet had already- tear away from the sheet.  So now I have lots of "mending thinking" to do before I start sewing.  But mostly-I won't put the mended area on his side of the bed anymore.

I had to use the rescue inhaler twice yesterday and plan to use it 20 minutes BEFORE going outdoors to water the tomatoes today.  We had Caprese Salad and sweet corn for supper last night.  Grocery store "farm" tomatoes do very nicely after sitting in the hot vestibule for a few days.  Corn still in husks in the fridge.  Two large tomatoes was plenty -one for each of us.  I picked my first Sun Gold cherry tomato yesterday.  Very tasty.  

Peaches are starting to mellow in color- more yellow than green right now.  The Redhavens have a nice red spot on the almost gold skin.  Reliant is slow and not as heavy with fruit as last year.  Spent too much energy making leaves.  Plums a complete loss it seems.  Some sort of fungus got them.  Grapes are developing in size.  Leaf roller caterpillars are evident but I pick any leaves that have the classic "roll" full of wiggling worms.  Husband wanted to use a systemic poison.  So we could eat poisoned grapes.

There are days when.......well, I just want to SCREAM.  I have already taken the Round Up away from him, but he may have used it before I noticed- in the Spring- in the raised bed garden with vegetables. It doesn't matter- an hour later he is back wanting to use the systemic.  No memory we already discussed it.

He says it's a "hearing aid problem" that I do not speak so he can hear me.  Wow.