Ways to Move

Hello,

The garden in front of the house needed watering. It is not such a deal, in fact quite easy to get the hose on it. The problem is what to do, while waiting for enough water to get on the ground. It was a beautiful morning with abundant shade. It seemed like doing tai chi just as the Chinese people do outside might be a good idea. I started in and it did feel good. While turning in one direction, a neighbor could be seen standing there watching. They were far enough away that I could not see their expression, but what do you think it might have been? Turning the other way, another much closer watching neighbor come into view. This guy was clearly embarrassed to be caught spying? It did not bother me, but my concentration was a bit fragile at that moment, however the end of the sequence was close so it was done soon.

Note to self, do not bring in any more edible weeds that are growing between sidewalk segments. There are much too many grass fragments entwined in it all.

I walked to the community garden, pulled a bucket of weeds, put down newspaper, filled three bucket loads with mulch that I coaxed into the bucket with a small hand trowel rather than a shovel, carted the bucket to the waiting newspaper, dumped it, and spread it around. It does not look as good as another worker makes it look, but it will stop weeds. Happy to know that it is almost time for the Japanese beetles to be gone as they have had a hearty meal of green bean leaves as well as rhubarb leaves.

I picked a number of large marble sized tomatoes. They have an excellent flavor. For whatever reason, the tomatoes have been quite late this year.

After the garden I walked off to deliver neighborhood monthly newsletters. I have gotten plenty of steps today. Two loads of clothes were washed, hung out and retrieved.

We are planning to go on a bike ride tonight. There are indeed many ways to move in a day.

Paula