The social calendar is boiling hot now. We have lunch with the Spelmans at Joey’s Thursday; Nancy and Ali are coming on Friday from SC; and a barbecue at the lake on Saturday with all the Florida Carbones, the Brueggemans, and the Spelmans – we’re estimated the head count at 20. Then Monday morning, bright and early, we get on the road for the trip to Missouri, via Dallas. And there are more trips on the May calendar for Nancy and me independently – she heads west for Utah and I’m considering joining Tom and Simon on a trip to NC.
Looks like no concerns at all about Tommy having a job after graduation. He now has a couple of solid offers in his pocket and is still receiving inquiries about potential jobs. All you hear on the news is how bad the job market is for new grads but it doesn’t seem to extend to him.
Starting to see the first of the green beans – not ready to pick but forming for sure. Ditto the Armenian cucumbers; ditto green peppers; ditto eggplant. And get this, a few of the corn stalks are showing the beginning of some silk. The bad news is that we will be leaving for a week to attend Tommy’s graduation in Missouri. What makes the timing even worse is that George will be in Miami the same week having tests run for his heart valve implant. I put a timer on the soaker hose watering system I installed a couple weeks back so that I shouldn’t have to worry about the garden drying out. What I really need to schedule is a return to some rain and forget about watering.
Did I mention that our neighbor got a couple of new chicks to replace the ones the raccoons got a couple months back? Turns out at least one of the chicks has grown up to be a rooster. And yes roosters do crow in the morning; and the afternoon; and the evening.
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