Slowing Down

 With most of the big jobs done in the yard, at least for me, I am slowing down a bit. Monday was house work and laundry day, and while Tom continues to find more jobs outside, I let that be enough for me.

Tuesday was very warm in the afternoon, officially 86 F, our warmest day so far. After our Zoom meeting, I puttered in the garden, snipping and clipping. We shut down in the afternoon. I got a haircut. I finished my book " The Correspondent" in the shade of the umbrella on the patio. We enjoyed a grilled dinner in the evening, and watched TV. I have been watching baseball, the Mariners, now that our regular TV programs are done for the summer. We are trying to find some good series on Netflix. 

Wednesday we had a very slow start, not getting up until after 8:00, because we didn't have to and it felt so good just to snooze a little longer. 

About 11:00 I drove over to the park for a walk. It was hard, but I got my mile. Tom worked in the garden, pulling binder weed. Such nasty stuff, commonly called Morning Gory, but not the pretty kind. 

When I got back Charlie Mewdini found me. We hadn't seen much of our borrowed cat for a while, but today he seemed needy for attention and kept returning. He ends up where his bowl is, waiting for a handout. 

Later he joined me at the patio table. He likes to survey the territory. 

He followed me around while I did some puttering in the garden and then I took some time to enjoy some blooms.

The first Oriental Poppy popped. 

Delphiniums, foxgloves, and columbine. 

Add Rose Campion 

Roses are beginning to bloom,

This afternoon we had our first pick up from Ridwell. That's a recycling company we recently signed on with that finds outfits that can recycle items that would otherwise have to go in the garbage, especially plastics that regular recyclers won't take.   

They supply a bin, cloth reusable bags, and at the door pick up. 

I keep a basket on the kitchen counter for the stuff, and then the bags and a bin in the garage to accumulate the stuff until pick up, which is every two weeks. There is a $20 a month charge but some of that will be off set because we have ordered the smallest garbage bin from our Recology Company. 

Our garbage had been mostly plastic food wrappings so now we have very little garbage and that plastic isn't going in the landfill.

And that's what's new, or old, in the neighborhood.