Field Notes- Thursday, August 3rd. Grass Cutting....Sunshine.....A Second Lunch Date

 Hibiscus.  I don't have anything like this in my garden.  I think I stopped buying and planting after I retired.  Before that...I was always upgrading the floral landscape.  Trying to have something fresh in bloom all spring and summer.   Which, I admit, is not easy.........but I think, these days I hit 75 to 80%.

Another Lunch Date.  Yesterday was fun and I had a BLT--it's been YEARS since I had one.....and we finished off with Bailey's Cheesecake.  Wonderful.   I didn't have Dinner or even a snack after I got home.

The guys are out cutting the grass.  I have the invoice for one cut in June and four in July.  Well, worth the money.  Grass always looks great and neither G or I are out there getting ready to fall over in the heat and humidity.   Walking behind a slow mower.   It used to take hours......hours.

Oddly enough. until husband retired...I cut the grass.  I also seeded the lawns.  I also shoveled snow. On the really long driveway.  Husband wasn't home. Husband was never home. He never called to see if I was okay after a heavy snow storm....he never called at all.  He was happy to be away. Sad to have to return home.  This is when we should have divorced each other.  Right AFTER the two children graduated from college.  I could have started a brand new Life.  I might even have found someone who loved me.

I didn't.  So I have regrets...and read romance books. 

I am having a Lunch Buddy Lunch in an hour.  I'll wear what I wore to yesterday's lunch.  Nice cherry red linen pants daughter found for me at Goodwill last year.  With a white linen shirt.

The Oil Company- sent an invoice in an email.  I can't print off the computer- I need both a new computer and a new printer.  October.   So I was given an appointment for 8 am to speak to a HUMAN.  And I asked for a mailed paper invoice.......the woman sighed.......and said she would "speak" to the local office. Which is just a hop away from the grocery store where I go every Monday.  Where I dropped off my bill and my checks. Always.  Now....I wait to see if I get a paper copy.  If not I will email to my cross the street neighbor and she will print off the invoice......for me.  The Lawn Service also sent me an email bill- Tru Green tried that (once) and I called them and said "no"- a paper invoice or cancel my service.

I understand that I am being stubborn and "old fashioned"........I will be more open to the new- when I can actually print things off the computer.......I have missed doing that.......husband did something and it stopped working.....that was before I knew he should never touch anything I depended on working....