Not that any day I spend gardening could ever be less than wonderful, but...the garden is particularly gorgeous right now. The sky is gray, there are occasional sprinkles, but the temperature is so mild I can keep the back door open and the cats can race in and out of the house while I work. Some black clouds are overhead, so I shucked my boots and came in for a few minutes; I'm pretty sure we'll end with a nice sunset, so I can go out and clear the rest of the front side garden and put in the North Sky "ground cover" blueberry bushes.
I'm still putting a few pavers and lots of ground cover in the back yard surrounded the new vegetable garden. The plan is to get the actual vegetables in on May 9, after the whole packing/storing/moving/selling/ my mom's condo is over. I've hired a local mover and rented a storage locker, detailed my car, booked the cleaners, and scheduled a week off from work. My mom arrives Tuesday night.
She is really keyed up. This morning she woke me out of a sound sleep to ask me if I'd gotten the letter she sent to her attorney yesterday. Huh?
It turned out she meant the email she'd sent me telling me that she'd sent a letter to her attorney.
Back to sleep. Five minutes later, she called and woke me up again.
"There's something wrong with you, isn't there? You sounded very strange," she said, using her mother-knows-best tone.
I took the bait.
"Yes," I said. "I'm very upset. Someone keeps calling me on the phone and waking me out of the first decent night's sleep I've had all week. It's 8:00 a.m. out here, you know."
Of course, it was 11 a.m in Florida and she just can't quite believe that I'm allowed to sleep in while everyone in Florida has been up for hours.
As my dad used to say, "Oh boy."
I remember when I worked at NOAA, one of the secretaries arrived to find a very irate voicemail. They were shocked, SHOCKED! that there was no one available to answer the phone in the Seattle office at 9 a.m. Er, that was 9 a.m. in Florida.
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