Tuesday Morning

Well Monday was a federal holiday honoring Dr. King's birthday so the rec and the library was closed and there was no school for Ava and Sam so they along with Amy, Eliza Faye and GG all came for a lunch of beef barley soup. It was a good time for some some as the morning started with temps in the 40's but by late afternoon we reached the upper 60's and maybe a 70. There was plenty of sunshine and yet the breeze out of the north kept us in long pants for the day.

The day started with a sleep in until nearly 7. The warm flannel sheets beckoned us to lounge around as the house temps dropped overnight down into the high 60's. We had no plans for the day as everything was closed that is on our usual schedule. We had lots of leftovers to share with Amy and GG for lunch so we spent the morning on the Internet after our quiet times and a lite breakfast of oatmeal. I did put in a load of laundry and eventually hung it on the clothesline as it was a good day for drying with the sunshine and breeze.

I headed out to hand water the garden after it warmed up some and my broccoli is just about ready to harvest sometime this week. I found a green tomato about the size of a marble and the suage peas are starting to bloom as well. The new lettuce seedlings I transplanted into larger pots isn't doing as well as I expected but are still alive at this moment. I have a few more to move up into larger pots if these die. The green beans are growing as well with little beans about the size of toothpicks. I lost the basil due to the cold night time temps but no one uses it but me. The parsley is growing almost out of control as well is the cilantro.

Little Eliza is walking everywhere is so funny. What a sweet smile she has and Nancy got her to fall asleep for about 45 minutes while Amy and GG shopped before lunchtime. Ava and Sam are into the Ipad with all of the games and seldom to you hear a peep out of them. Eliza now like to get up on my lap and watch kitty cat videos on the laptop as well. We had a delicious lunch of soup and some pasta salad Amy had leftover from a covered dish supper at church Sunday night. The kiddos stayed until nearly 3 and then Nancy and I took off on a 3-4 mile walk/hike through the 'hood. The sun was bright but the air had just enough chill to keep you from breaking a sweat. We came back around 4 'ish and took down the laundry and then I hand watered again some of the more tender plants before we settled into reading before starting supper.

We had one of our favorite meals of salmon cakes, frozen peas and a salad for supper. I found out that canned salmon is harvested in Alaska and processed there as well and it's never farm raised. After the clean up we settled into the Fox news channel and learned our potus wants to redistribute(tax)another 320 billion dollars from those who are successful and give it away to grow the government even bigger. Wow, he is the most arrogant potus after a resounding defeat of his policies in the last election. I hope we can survive as a nation for the 2 years left of his administration but what really bothers me is the lack of any leadership in the opposite party. We know the conservatives or the right want less government intrusion into our lives while the opposite is true to the left or liberals. I'm afraid we are heading down the same socialist road that Europe tried and now we know that course has miserably failed, wake up America and where are those who have some bright ideas on how to fix the economy with some job creation and giving folks a sense of worth from their endeavors while keeping the many government regulations out of our daily lives, LATER