We were up by 7:30 this morning, so Hubbie could get ready by 9 a.m. to go help the Master Gardeners work on one of the public gardens that are the organization's responsibility. I did a session on the treadmill while he was gone, and then occupied myself with a couple of projects I'd been putting off.
Later, after a chef's salad lunch, we ran a few errands...to the WDCS to pick up photographs and a couple of grocery items; to the store that has a sale every weekend, where I applied a $10 coupon toward the purchase of an on-sale belted khaki jacket and a knit shirt; to a big, new drugstore that just opened today; and to our personal pharmacy. Re: the photographs: something went wrong with the film from Hubbie's camera, so there was only one snapshot in the package. I suspect this was a processing error.
The new drugstore is very nice and carries a large variety of products, but the items seem to be priced higher than at the WDCS, so we probably won't shop there often. But we did register for a couple of prizes to be given away next week...a large picnic table canopy, and a boy's bicycle. We could use either one or both.
We got back home around 4 p.m., and soon after, I put leftover Swiss steak, potato wedges, and a can of turnip greens in the oven to heat for Hubbie's and my supper. Mother opted to stay home today.
She did come over around 6:30, though, to go to a meeting sponsored by the Master Gardeners to hear a proposal for a community garden. The group hopes to get enough community interest to construct several raised beds for people to use. Participants would pay a yearly fee for general upkeep of the area (water, electric bills, etc.), and they'd get a raised bed to use all through the growing season. There would even be a bed raised high enough to accommodate a wheelchair. The area would be fenced, and have a night watch light. A group (probably the Master Gardeners) would oversee the project, select participants, mediate disputes, etc.
After we got home, we watched a few favorite one-hour shows on TV. Around 9 p.m., a guy, maybe in his 30s, stopped by to borrow a gallon of gas. We don't keep containers of gasoline on hand, so Hubbie took the guy (and one of our gas cans) to a filling station. Our house seems to be a magnet for folks with auto problems, just as the highway in front of our house seems to be a magnet for auto accidents.
Phew! It has been a really humid, very warm, mostly sunny day today. As we were traveling to the Master Gardener meeting this evening, though, the setting sun so dramatically radiated from around the clouds that it was easy to imagine that an angel might descend from them.
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