tomatoes

Rain...albeit short lived for today.  We really needed it.  Lawns are still so cooked that they will not come alive until next season. 

Personally, i need more balancing exercises.  On uneven surfaces I am unsteady and unsure.  If it's flat, I am fine.

Tomatoes are prolific and ripening.  Tried some different varieties this year in that I have located a better growing spot.  Flavors are still tomatoey but slightly stronger.

It's  a quiet Sunday and we are not moving too fast Harry is lounging on the sofa, contented.  I am munching on a bagel and cream cheese.  We will visit Shannon in the afternoon.  

Trying to deal wth my addiction to screens

and devices.  I doom scroll like a teenager, only pausing for a moment on each image and reading the headlines of each entry, then moving on over and over and over ultimately wasting hours of time gaining no satisfaction for my efforts.  

We have this cat Simon that shuttles between the two floors.  He is friendly to me in the morning when I am tying my shoes.  It is his focus to escape into the attached garage, always at the door ready to run out.  Today taking out the trash, I closed the door but left I ajar.  Out he pushed an under the vehicle in its spot.  I am not crawling under the car.  What he really wants is to climb onto the platform that was in the house.  He ripped it up and made an ongoing mess.  He was perched op there and did not want to leave.  Claws and teeth out,  he was not to be extricated.  Grabbed some gloves and fought him off his position; an exciting morning.

 

Transition

This has been a period of transition.  First, we were gifted a car by my lovely sister and her husband.  Our dentist lost his youngest son. I cannot get over how much that family's life has been altered.  We went to a lovely party in the neighborhood last Saturday. Yesterday we went to a celebration for a good friend from Oxford Towers given by the hospice organization in his behalf.  He is not dying, but slipping physically and mentally.  This was a proclamation of his humanity echoed by his family and friends in the yard of his daughter.  Judy and I with Mike and Bill along with his hospice team were present.  It was a warm, sunny day and truly quite pleasant.  Finally, we learned that our old friend Calvin Edwards also from Oxford passed on suddenly.  He was always of good humor and loved by many of the residents.  Changes can be difficult to handle.

Going to a HS graduation party for you great nephew Jack today,  Haven't seen this part of the family in a while.  I remember he and his older brothers when they were little boys.  His mom Kelly is my god daughter and his dad Scott is the guy that missed his Batchelor party to take Judy to the hospital when I was car jacked.  It was a tough day. That evening, Kelly's dad died. 

I can't stand talking about or even thinking about politics at this point, so disillusioned by the whole process.  The bashing ads in the media are mundane and boring and non stop.  Sick of it.

Sorry a little rambling today