We’re having overnight company which is a good thing. Believe it or not I have never restored the dock to operational use since the hurricanes last fall so this forced the issue and gets the “lake” season off to a start. Restoring the dock means untying all the dock furniture and trimming the jungle away from the pathway. In doing so I noticed several pieces of the deck that are rotting and need replacement. Joey volunteered Mark to help (do it) me and we’re scheduled for that to happen the end of the month.
Chris’s move is starting to become real. They went to Charlotte over the weekend on a house hunting trip and quickly found a brand new town house that more than met their needs. They’ve had a realtor researching and had been pre-qualified so they had a nice list of possibles and found “the place” quickly. The physical move is scheduled for the end of the month. A big plus – they’ll be about 20 minutes from Lindsay, Charles and the girls and less than an hour from Nancy, Ali and Meghan so we’ll have plenty of incentive to visit. Other than a nice place to live, it looks like he’ll be within 10 minutes to a Costco, a Fresh Market, a Whole Foods and a Trader Joe’s. And a plethora of micro breweries. Maybe 10 minutes to the airport. A short walk to a golf course.
Tom is in the final stage of his PhD program so between that, the classroom teaching and the IG projects he’s in deep water with no cycles to spare. He needs some total isolation to put the finishing touches on the PhD project so we’re going to steal away to a cabin in the mountains in NC. Nancy and Tina will quilt and do quilt shop touring, Tom will work the PhD stuff, and I’ll fish in the small lake, catch up on my reading and quaff a few craft beers. I’m fairly certain we’ll visit Chris’s new digs sometime on the trip.
And if all that is not enough excitement – hang on. Several of the tomato plants have little green tomatoes and two of the zucchini bushes have little tubers popping out. The tomatoes are surprising but I’ve been seeing blossoms for a couple of weeks so the little green ones are only a small surprise. The squash is a much bigger surprise because the plants are covered with insect netting. My expectation was to leave them covered until blossoms appeared and then to remove the covers to allow pollination. I guess either critters from under the cover did the job or this variety just doesn’t require conventional pollination. The variety of cuc’s I mostly plant are designed for hot house growth and are self pollinating. Perhaps that works for this squash too.
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