And, They’re Off…

Yesterday was an absolutely perfect day. It was 65, sunny and breezy and it was a bug day. The day started with Jeff Campana, who graciously agreed to drive my pots along with his to Chicago, showing up at about 10 to load my pots into his car. I have to admit that there was a strange anticlimactic feeling as Jeff drove away. I’m sure I’m not alone but after 3 months of work towards a goal and hurriedly packing it all in boxes and then it’s just over… kinda. We were up earlier and while we were waiting, Sofia was trying to fly off the stump…

I was in such a mad rush to get everything together that I don’t have any good shots of the pots. Here they are all sprawled out on tables and then in boxes…

After Jeff headed out, Sofia and I set out for some coffee, tea and pomme frites. I struggled with the NYT saturday crossword puzzle and then we headed home. Our neighbor who rescues Great Pyrenees dogs (you may remember from this post) has gotten another batch of pups… 6 this time. I didn’t take my camera but they were all outside and the puppy spectacle has turned into nothing short of a neighborhood tourist attraction. We were merely looking through the fence at the pups when the owner came home, then a girl from down the street, then 5 boys on bicycles stopped, then a lady and her daughter driving by, then a couple with their two kids that were interested in adopting showed up, then the first girl’s aunt and uncle. All these people and us were inside these peoples’ yard petting puppies. The two strangest things to me were first that because the pups were 5 male and 1 female, they named them after the 5 University of Kentucky basketball team’s starters and they named the girl Ashley Judd. The 5 boys that stopped by while out riding their bicycles were very approving of the name choices. btw, UK lost last night to WV. The other thing that only a curmudge like myself would find strange is that all 5 of these 9 or 10 year old boys had cell phones with them as they were out marauding the neighborhood and at one time they were all going from pup to pup taking pictures of the dogs with their phones… whatever dudes, what, do you have a blog or something? After this, bug and I went shopping for some fruit because she wanted a smoothie. When we got home we made smoothies with grapefruit, strawberries, bananas, ice and a little lemon juice. One thing that makes smoothies even more enjoyable to Sofia is if she can drink it out of a wine glass so we headed out to the porch…

The green stuff in the smoothie is mint. I have mint growing in the flower garden and like to use it for tabbouleh and Sofia eats it all the time. She found a bunch of little sprigs coming up and put the mint in her smoothie, here she’s stirring it in…

Then we took a really long walk with Dingus and laid in the grass in the sun and the bug ran around flapping her arms saying she’s a butterfly. It really couldn’t have been a better day…

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