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Gloomy Monday.  It rained starting late afternoon yesterday and all evening.  I think it’s supposed to clear out today.   But I’m okay with the rain.  We really needed it.

The boss is back today.  The first e-mail I saw was from her, announcing the dates of the usual long vacation that she and her hubby take at or near the beginning of the new year.  This time it’s starting just before Christmas, a little earlier than usual.  Something for me to look forward to, LOL!

Weekend was alright.  Friday bf and I tried a new Thai restaurant near us.  It’s pretty good, so we’ll probably go back.  It’s close enough to home that I could see myself just ordering a large Tom Yum soup to go.  I could live on good soup!

Saturday I got out in the yard and cut back a bunch of the foliage we have in a flower bed near our veggie garden.  This bed is a mishmash of annuals that I just leave alone - peonies, daylilies, sedum, and phlox.  It also has a lone columbine, sometimes two.  The past couple years, I’ve also let some milkweed grow there because it attracts butterflies.  And new this year, I let a weed grow that I believe is goldenrod.  It was very pretty when it bloomed.  I cut everything down to the ground except the daylilies, whose foliage was still green, and the sedum, which were in full bloom.  Everything else was “done” for the season and the foliage was turning brown.  What I need to remember next year is to cut the milkweed last.  The bees seemed to like the milky stuff that’s in the stems, and soon they were buzzing around the ground at the cut part of the stems .  The milkweed and the goldenrod are very tall, so I might not let those grow in next year because I think that may have blocked the sun from the other plants, and possibly my veggie garden.  I’m not positive about that.  I just read in the newspaper that this wasn’t a great year for tomatoes in our area due to the rainy June and the cool weather throughout the summer.  That might have been the cause of the really slow ripening and low yield of my plum and better boy tomatoes.  The cherry tomatoes did just fine, as usual. 

Also on Saturday I did some grocery shopping, a load of laundry, and took doggy for a walk.  Bf met a family friend earlier in the day for a classic car show not far from where that night’s party was being held, so I picked up another friend (who doesn’t drive) and drove with him to the party.  The party was nice.  Not hot, and no bugs!  Later, when it cooled off, we sat around the fire pit.  Made me wish we used our fire pit more often. 

It was a very late night and so Sunday I woke up a bit after 10 am.  I read the paper for a bit, boiled a dozen eggs (I’d bought a dozen on Sat. not realizing we had 1.5 dozen at home already!), did two more loads of laundry, and took doggy for a walk.  Lunch was a chicken and avocado wrap.  Dinner was ultra thin crust Margherita pizza.  Watched some of the football game.  I didn’t make the tomato basil soup, but I have the recipe printed and all the ingredients at the ready. 

I’m glad we got a lot of rain yesterday – everything in the yard was so dry and I hadn’t been watering.  I suppose that also contributed to lack of tomato production… 

Not much more to report.  Except for the dog walks, I didn’t exercise.  I didn’t do any more pushups because my shoulder was bugging me.  What a cop out.  I’m just not trying hard enough to get back into the exercise groove.  Food is also not on track.  I didn’t bring lunch today, but I brought snacks:  1 oz. almonds, cherry tomatoes, LF vanilla yogurt w/ blueberries to toss into it. 

Okay, better get this published.  Have a good day everyone.  Enjoy the last day of summer!!!