Interesting stuff

Interesting stuff - again

Tuis Eylül 01, 2022

Living in a small town has its good and bad. Bad: there’s not very much fun to do, specially now when going out is such a crapshoot. Good: when you get ready to vote early, in what is touted to be an earth-shaking election, you don’t have to wait in line more than 5 minutes. Maybe not so much a ‘good’ thing. But anyway, I voted today!

Another interesting thing about living here – you never know what you’ll see. Today, at our local Walmart, I saw (honest-to-god)an older man (between 60-70) wearing jeans (okay), a bright, somewhat garish Hawaiian shirt (ooookay – a little odd but we are still having summer, so . . .), and (truth – I saw it with my very own eyeballs) a coonskin cap. You will have to take my word for it because he was walking briskly and I just couldn’t get everything together fast enough to sneak a picture.

A couple of neighbors in the old neighborhood are having a political SIGN off.

One house put a Biden/Harris sign in their yard.

Then, the people across the street countered with a Trump/Pence sign. Then, oddly, the Trump sign disappeared for a couple of weeks and

house #1 put out a 2^ndBiden sign (they’re on a corner, so one in the front; one on the side).

So, house #2 put out the Trump sign again.

Then, house #1 put up two Biden flags and

house # 2 put out a Trump flag.

And, finally, house #1 upped the ante and put out a large poster on the side of their house - Biden/Harris.

As of this morning, house #2 hasn’t done anything to counter so, right this minute Biden is ahead.

Here lately, I have spent early morning hours doing yard work. As of today, I have planted trees – 2 catalpa, 1 black walnut, 1 pomegranate, 1 I-don’t-know-what-it-is; grew-it-from-a-seed-from-NM-but-I-think it’s a Mexican Bird of Paradise tree (different from the bush but similar)

1 desert orchid tree, and, 1 confederate rose.

I am going to have trees bygod!

Of course all the trees were grown from cutting and/or seed so all are smallish but I am expecting each one to be as tall as I am by this time 2021 (don’t burst my dream bubble).

I have also planted ferns (under the front porch),

lemon grass, star jasmine, and night blooming jasmine. And, I have discovered the soil here is not soil – it’s clay. Heavy black clay – oh, goodie – just like living in Houston again. It’s been a long time since I’ve had to grow things in clay so I expect it will be a relearning process. I still have another confederate rose, a desert orchid, and a maple tree to plant but now I need to wait until I get a shed and carport. Then, I have a bunch of other plants that need to go into the ground but those will have to wait until next spring.

Yep - that would be me - don't know where things will be planted. Eek!! I have to change for yoga or I’ll be late. I shall leave you with one more thought.