Road Trip yesterday afternoon. (GREAT FUN) My Master Gardener Buddy called and we drove into a very unpopulated area (rolling hills, two lanes and the horizon)-- and a farmstead- greenhouse operation. We haven't done this together in years. I enjoyed seeing all the 100 plus year old Maine cottages. With roses growing over or next to the doorways. But most of all the horizon...... and not just thick dark trees- which is all I see here at home- even minus the ten huge trees we had cut down.
I got a six pack of mixed coleus. Aren't they wonderful? Also the little purple blue flowers. I also bought a 6 pack of cherry tomatoes and a six pack of large Better Boy tomatoes and a six pack of green bell peppers. Everything was on sale- end of the season. Leggy, root bound and in a few cases- dry as a bone.
Now, I'll have three to six of the grow boxes set up on the driveway. Like always. And each will have flowers in with the vegetables. I used to always grow peppers. Let them get red. And I gave bags of them away each summer to friends and people at work. The little pepper plants are in flower.
We'll see how it goes. Right now- it's cold here 62 degrees and no Sun. Need to go find my sweater.
We also stopped to do some grocery shopping. I was happy to be able to buy more Greek God's honey yogurt and another bag of cherries for my daily meal of yogurt and cherries. The store seemed really vacant yet again. Everyone still going to the new location about a mile from Town. Each time I go in- it's more vacant. I think they made a grave business error. My store used to be the busiest store in the chain (or the most popular- I don't remember what they wrote exactly), Now it isn't. Well, its still popular with me.
While I waited for my friend to find me- we had split up when I dashed off for the yogurt after finding they still had cherries- another woman came by- she had lost her mother. There we were- being eyed by four cashiers at four empty stations. Can we help you? Can we page your mother or your friend? Please???? The cashier who rang up my purchase was very tall and very young. Soft spoken and polite.
Reading another book- a romance and in this one the guy is dyslexic. The librarian choosing books is choosing more and more of these types of romances. In Bet Me- Calvin was dyslexic. Reading gave him massive headaches. In this one, it's early days but already we learn that his parents- two teachers- thought he was......tedious and not very bright. Those pages were very hard to read. Two other books had autistic lead characters. The authors of those books are autistic. A learning curve for this old woman.
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