Back to work work!

I woke up to the alarm clock on Tuesday morning. After the long weekend’s labors, it was a pleasure to go to work, sit in a chair and just have to think!

It was supposed to be a little cooler, with a high of only 82 degrees.

One of the many landscape features I loved about the St. Clair house were the huge white peonies. I had to buy rings to keep them from falling over when they were in bloom.

Well, when I checked at Home Depot, they said they hadn’t gotten any in this year, but they didn’t know why.

So, about 10:00 AM, I called Randazzo’s and asked if they had any. They did! And, since it was Tuesday, it meant that they had bean with ham soup at the Newburgh Grille!

So, I did a two-fer! I had a bowl of bean with ham soup and then looked at the Randazzo’s peonies. I couldn’t find any pure white ones, so I bought one red and one that’s supposed to have white and pink flowers. I asked for two plastic bags so I wouldn’t get dirt on the car’s carpets.

Back at work, I opened the sun roof and cracked the windows a tad so they wouldn’t overheat during the afternoon.

When I got home at 5:20 PM, I watered each of them and set them on the chest freezer in the garage (I’m not ready to plant them tonight, you see). Then I took out the garbage (mostly a lot of cardboard boxes) to the road. I cleaned out the cat box and put the heavy kitty litter in a trash bag on top the cardboard so it wouldn’t blow away overnight.

The automatic water level indicator was low in the window box, so I filled that back up with water. I love that thing, BTW. I saw (but too late for this year) they also have them for hanging baskets. I may replace the one I bought from Home Depot this year (that I have to constantly water) with one of them next year.

Then I went inside for the evening, as it was still over 80 degrees outside. But, a cold front is supposed to move in and the temps will be back in the high 60’s for the rest of the week. Weird weather!

I played around with the Orion papers on top of the picture frame glass. When I got it close to what I wanted, I climbed on a kitchen chair (dumb, I know) and took a picture. That way when I take it all apart, I can put the relics in the right places (hopefully) on the mat. Of course, I had to leave some papers out, but I think I got the best ones. I sent the photo to my work email as I no longer have a color printer at the house. I’ll print it on regular paper and use it as a guide when I assemble the actual picture.

By that time, it was close to 8:00 PM, so I warmed up a bratwurst and ate it with the last of the potato salad. I watched some TV and then went to bed before 10:30 PM.