Month: July 2017

Soares has been selling hydrangeas for 10-20% off during Hydrangea Fest, which ended today.

I bought five hydrangeas – Little Quick Fire and Bobo – and three Brunnera for desolation corner at the top of the driveway.  Laura came over today to help me arrange the hydrangeas and the Brunnera, as well as three astilbe and two sweet woodruff from Attaquin Acres at $10 each, a very good end-of-season deal.

I caught up with Rebecca at the Farmers Market and bought a nice little pineapple mint, which will be a fine addition to the herb garden.  Visited Jen and her friend Victor as well.  Baby Jack was asleep.

Got to see Rebecca and Watson, as well as their sweet dog today.

Yesterday, I bought mulch at Scenic Roots and drapery pleating tape at Joanne’s in Hyannis.  Visited Green Briar to see their wild plant garden and picked up four jams.  Their garden gave me serious Crocosmia envy.

We did the usual:  laundry, changed sheets, transfer station run.

I made an appointment for Ron at the Hingham Apple store Genius bar. The Genius removed 57 GB of emails from his poor laptop!

Fortunately, traffic was light for most of the trip, and he got home before a thunderstorm.  We had one massive clap of thunder, but didn’t lose power.

Got the name of an A/C specialist in Hyannis to help him with his van.

Paid off PayPal.

Made peach upside down cake yesterday and an apple pie today. Neither was my best, but better than the horrible cookies that poor Ron got stuck with.

Ron is done with transporting grandkids to work for the week.

Laura and I visited the Chapmans’ gardens this afternoon at a special open house for Highfield volunteers.

Got my check, finally; it was mailed on the seventh, not the fourth.

Ron brought back a huge basket of produce yesterday from the farm.

Strange stuff with Visual Studio this afternoon. After an update, all the pages were blank. OK after a restart.

Ron did more Russian olive hacking. He brought a load to the transfer station today and was only mildly rebuked.

He also trimmed the front bushes.

I made a really good stir-fry for supper with our zucchini and pesto, tomatoes, ricotta, mozzarella, garlic and Italian seasonings.

Made progress on my code and test code today. Lots of help.

Got my paycheck!

St. Johnswort, Stokesia (Blue Danube) and one of the new daylilies (white) are blooming.

We woke up late(8:30) and groggy this morning.

Picked another free zuke and some yellow cherry tomatoes for Alpha.

Alpha and I did the transfer station run, post office and BofA ATM, ice cream at Smitty’s, a tour of a Hydrangea Festival garden, refreshments and a garden tour at Dixon, quick run to Mahoney’s (they pushed me in a wheelchair) to get the name of the Stokesia, then back to Edgewater.

Made stir fry for supper: kale, shelled snap peas, lettuce, swiss chard, peppers, scapes.

I love this photo.

We had more rain yesterday that all last summer combined.  Flooding in Falmouth on Main Street yesterday and post-flood debris in parts of Mashpee today.

I did some pruning of Summersweet and inkberry bushes, and weeding this morning.  We managed to get Peter’s grill off the porch and onto the truck.  Quick run to the transfer station.

Tree: gone; wood: gone; grill: gone; fence: fixed.  We are doing okay by Edgewater.

Finished up Laura’s scrumptious quinoa/strawberry/rhubarb pudding.

Still no checks today.  Disgusting.

Here’s the mighty zuke from the corn garden: free food from last year’s compost.

We cleaned the oven. It’s been years.

One of the zucchini volunteers has produced a splendid squash.  Another has four.  These grew from seeds in our compost.

Ron and I each had a yellow cherry tomato today.  Sweet!

Laura made a delicious rhubarb-quinoa pudding, and some of the rhubarb came from our garden.

Pizza, salad and roasted kale for supper.

Between us, we made three separate trips to Stop & Shop today.  This is organization, so I’ve been told.  I was curious about the performer at the new Mashpee Commons stage, so that was the initial motivation, then I remembered that we were out of bagels and I wanted a snack for tomorrow.

Turned on the whole house fan to cool things down.  Temp in the kitchen went from 78 to 71.

I am looking forward to having money again, soon.  Hoping for rain tomorrow.

Ron got to use the outdoor shower for the first time this summer after cutting up 11 or so huge chunks of cherry wood yesterday. I delivered the lot to Emma after driving Robert home from work.

She gave us a dozen big, beautiful eggs and treated me to a ginger beer. Gave me a tour of her gardens, too. Her place looks great! I got to meet her nieces. Gabriel planted fava beans; he’ll be three later this summer!

We had drinks with Laura and Joe after supper. Heard a lot of fireworks and saw some in the direction of John’s Pond.

Ascelpias, yarrow, speedwell and Dwarf Bee Balm (Pink Lace Monarda) are blooming. Harvested a couple tablespoons of tiny strawberries for Ron’s cereal this morning.

Cleaned up sawdust from yesterday, finished spreading the black mulch and watered several areas this morning.

Drove to Cumby’s for gas, took a spin through Seconsett.

Splurged on two big Panera salads for lunch.

Laura and I picked up our CSA shares.

Watched “Do The Right Thing”.