Just Another Sunday

58°f14 4° C, mostly clear. Warmed up to 88°f! Ridiculous.

Talk about a heat wave! Almost 90° today, way too hot for this early in the year. Thankfully, it did not feel as hot as the same temperature in summer. Maybe it's the angle of the sun? Or maybe that steady, often pretty strong breeze/wind. Anyway, people were certainly out and about. As we drove to our Ravenswood booth to restock we saw kids playing, men tinkering with mowers, women mowing, people out on their porches. And at the mall, there were plenty of shoppers, a surprise because Sundays are typically pretty quiet.

We rarely do our booths on Sunday, but neither of us wanted to go Friday with the gravel coming, and yesterday after Sarah left we rested until late afternoon. But since it was going to be so warm, today felt like a good time to get this job out of the way.

Then we stopped at Shari's for a snack and iced coffee, and visited with a couple friends who were there, always a pleasure. It was still 88° when we got home, but we had things to do. Larry worked on cleaning out his garage while I spray-painted porch furniture. I didn't finish but I made a good start. Note to self: do NOT spray paint in sandals. Very unwise. My toes look very odd now, a faint ring of black around my toenails. I scrubbed hard and got most of it off my toes and foot but the nails...oh well.

If you must know, the reason I did not change into shoes was simple: I was tired, and I knew that if I stopped to put on socks and shoes I just wouldn't tackle the job! Silly but true. Sometimes little things seem like the biggest obstacles. But then, I got a second wind and did put on the socks and shoes to go out do some stringtrimming, and piddled around in the vegetable garden, raking back mulch in a little spot so the soil will dry enough to dig and plant my lettuce. Of course, rain is on the way tonight. Of course it is.

I also cleaned the remaining dried up vines from the arches and was surprised to find that we had missed some lima beans when we picked the last of them in the Fall. 

I wonder why the one pod spoiled, while the others just dried? 

I was very appreciative of our awesome shower when I came in. Grass clippings all over me, bits of dried vines in my hair, paint on my feet...I was a right mess. There is nothing like a good shower, is there?

Tomorrow we won't get much above 50°, and will drop to around 30 tomorrow night. Such a fickle friend is Spring!

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