Life of Wry

I didn’t do much today, but I did do this….

…. a wee bit of gardening. 

Mostly I walked around the garden in flip flops with my garden gloves on and a pair of clippers and removed skeletons (what remained of last summer’s spent vegetable plants). Weeded a bit, even. That was fun. And then I just wandered around looking at things. It was so nice.. warm, gently sunny, moist.

Everything’s been dormant, but the weeds are definitely popping up and color’s coming back. It’s supposed to rain later this week and the temps are supposed to drop back down to normal (40s and 50s). Very glad I got to enjoy the garden today.

A few shots…

From the deck:

The neighbor’s citrus trees are dense with fruit and the climbing rose vines are thinking about setting some buds. That rosemary’s super thriving:

This was after I weeded this particular box… gone are tomatoes, eggplants and peppers skeletons, I left the strawberries:

This was just before weeding and old plant removal; the soil’s so wet and soft.. everything came right up:

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I also think I achieved my PB (personal best) in football viewing this year… having watched, I believe, three (maybe three and a half) football games. I probably shattered my previous football-watching-in-a- single-season record signifcantly. Two of the games I watched this season were college games: the U of Michigan Wolverines starred in both (yay, UM won the title of #1 college football team). About one and a half of the games I watched were NFL matchups… specifically games featuring the Detroit Lions. I saw part of last week’s game and all of today’s against the SF 49ers. I was rooting for Detroit because: Michigan. Fanism is transactional.. this time having everything to do with Peter living in Ann Arbor. Of course.

Unfortunately, after starting today’s game very impressively and leading San Francisco 24-7 at half-time, the Lions lost their mojo in the second half, losing in the end 31-34. Aww, too bad! Close, but no cigar (Super Bowl). I’ll be in Guatemala during the Super Bowl, so I can confidently say my PB tops out at 3 1/2 games.