Tuesday, Tuesday...

It was cooler on Tuesday with a high only in the 80’s. But, still no real rain.

I made two quick stops at lunchtime: Home Depot and Office Depot. I was in the Depot zone, man! I dropped off my purchases and had a sloppy joe on an onion roll for lunch.

After work, I watered the container garden out front. I realized I was fighting a losing battle with the bleeding hearts in the hanging basket. In spite of hand-watering every two days, there is only one stalk on one branch of the original three beautiful plants I put in there.

I carried two buckets of water out to the peonies and then stuck the hose end in the reflecting pool. I turned the water on 1/4 turn and set the timer for an hour. Why? I’m trying to save the Japanese maple next to the pool. I’ve babied that sucker for years and now it looks like it, too, is succumbing to the heat. I checked the vegetable garden and decided to pick my first harvest of green beans.

Back inside, I switched out the two power strips in the office for two new ones I bought today at Office Depot. Mine were old and really rated low (I learned about the rating of power strips when I bought the bed – the surge protector I had to buy for it needed to be rated at 700 joules or better, so I went with 1000).

I cut the ends off the green beans and snapped them into bite-sized pieces. Then I steamed them while I warmed up another of those grilled chicken breasts from the company picnic I had frozen.

I ate the chicken breast on an onion roll with mayonnaise and the green beans with just butter and salt. The chicken was still good but the green beans were excellent!

I went out and shut off the water, I reeled in the hose and locked up. I watched TV until bedtime.