Rainy Days and Thursday…

Thursday was another gloom, gray day with occasional showers. It was noticeably cooler as well. Altogether unpleasant.

I took the front license plate into a sign shop to have it lettered at lunch. It should be done in a day or two. From there, I went to Annie’s, the restaurant that replaced the old Big Boy at Plymouth and Farmington. It’s also now a bakery, so it smelled wonderful. It was pretty good food and reasonably priced.

When I pulled in, I noticed the lilac was in bloom. It must like rain. I walked over and picked a bloom for the house.

 

I went out back to dump the rain gauge. I had forgotten to do it this morning. So, I can only tell you that, over the last two days, I got about 3/4-inch of rain here.

While I was doing that, I noticed the chives were starting to bud. That usually about the time they tend to get tough, so I thought I better make my first harvest. I cut out as many as I could without cutting the buds.

I took them inside and sat on the bed, snipping them into a big bowl. Then I transferred them to a freezer bag, labeled them and stuck them in the freezer. I threw last year’s bag in the trash.

I remembered to take my fish home, so I ate that for dinner with some wild rice as the side. It was tasty, but nothing you could make food porn out of.

I watched a little TV but went to bed early. In spite of several washings, my hand smelt like chives all night. But the bedroom air, with its lilac scent, smelled like back home on the farm.

BTW, I was awakened at 2:00 a.m. by the smoke detector in my room. She couldn’t wait until morning to tell me she had low batteries. I changed them just to shut her up, but it took over an hour to fall back asleep!