Well Thursday found me once again waking up at my son's house in Brandon as we will leave there after dropping off our twin grandsons at their school and head back to Seminole. I had started the day with my usual routines that begin with some quiet times to honor my lord, Jesus, give thanks for another day and to lift up several by name for comfort and healing, all seem to be holding with this post.
We fed the boys and got them dressed and I drove them to school and dropped them off and came back and we loaded up the truck after putting the house in order. It was close to 10 AM before we got home and I hand watered the garden or what is left of it. The romaine lettuces that came up volunteer are still growing but the cucumbers and tomato's except one volunteer tomato plant are now all dead or dying. I sill have lots of kale, collards and carrots and some herbs. The Thai basil had come back to life and is now showing lots of leaves and seed pods and of course the Rosemary is nearly a small tree and seems to love the heat and dryness, but everything else except for the marigolds which have really exploded with blooms and color and now need to be harvested for their seeds for next years planting. I wish I could put pics of them on this blog but for some reason I'm not able to do that, plus a friend of mine is trying to read the blog and now its almost unaccessible, whats with that.
It was once again the low 90's and tons of humidity so I didn't do much after lunch except read and catch up on the world news. I finished a true story written by the prosecutor of O.J. , Marcia Clark about a woman who was wrongly executed in the 50's for a murder she did not commit but was used by some career criminals to get a widow woman to open the door to her house on the pretense she needed to use her phone after breaking down in her car. Those two with her were the ones who brutally beat and killed the widow and then set her up to take the fall or go down with the two accomplishes. All three were executed in the gas chamber but the trial was not one where the prosecutor and sheriff investigators did a good job and she should have not died like the other two, anyhow the book is titled TRIAL BY AMBUSH.
Since I was an LEO for 30 years I cringed at the shoddy job and the set up by those who had the power and where with all to railroad her into her death. She wasn't without innocence but her part was strictly as a way to get inside the house where supposedly lots of cash was hidden. It was a robbery but turned into a brutal murder, anyhow Marcia Clark did a great job in investigating this crime and bringing all the fact to life as well as the great job she did in the O.J. trial. I thought she was terrific but the news media once again as they did in this trial persuaded the public that this woman was totally a monster, but in the O.J. gave him a pass, oh well.
After a supper of left over pork roast, rice with gravy and Brussel sprouts I headed out to work in the yards and gardens. I mowed all of the yards then planted a perennial flowering plant that Nancy got for mother's day in the back yard, by then I was drenched in sweat so I headed in for a shower and watched the Carolina hockey team wipe out the D.C. team from the playoffs, LATER
