Then I had to feed the tomatoes, water some of the other things in my garden, water the strawberry garden, water my crazy lavender plant, and oregano, then the yard. I had such high hopes for my Greek mountain tea (sideritis, or ironwort), but there are only three of the five seedlings left. One is growing ~wow it grows rather slowly ~ the others just seem to be hanging out. If I can't get it going, I'm going to turn that raised bed into a veg bed. My yard isn't big enough for unproductive gardening beds.
I usually have a lizard that lives in the wisteria near my garden, and I'm happy to have them! A few days ago there was a large roadrunner standing on the fence, going after the lizards ~ one of their main food sources. She was too big to make much headway into the wisteria to make the catch. Now my lizards are rather shy. I haven't seen them out sunning themselves like I used to. As I am writing this, she was just now out there, so I think she has put our yard on her route for breakfast.
Yesterday our team at church (we make the meal for fellowship hour about twice a year) had a fish fry, and unfortunately there were about 3 grease fires. The kid working on frying the fish was putting it into the hot oil too fast. It totally freaked me out! I was yelling "fire! fire!", and couldn't figure out why no one else was freaking out. They were not small fires either. Finally he figured out he needed to put the basket in very slowly to avoid the flare ups. I'm surprised we didn't need the fire extinguisher. If Chuck wants to fry fish again, I'm going to say no way. Just buy the fish already fried and heat it up in the oven. I had a hard time falling asleep last night, having flashbacks on it.
I was so stressed out that I forgot an ingredient in the cornbread I was making ~ although I didn't realize I forgot to put the melted butter in until that afternoon. I just couldn't figure out why the recipe worked without it, but it did! I had quite a few compliments on it too! Weird, right?
Well, gotta go fold laundry and other drab, boring stuff. This is the life of a retiree most days! I must say, I really love it. :-)
Love, 365
Busy in retirement! Perhaps you are loving the mointain tea plants too much. They have to thrive on neglect in the Greek mountains. Never a dull moment at your cook-ups it seems.😱
ReplyDeleteI drink a cup of the mountain tea every day, which helps keep uti's at bay. It has been six months since I've had a bladder infection, which is really a miracle! I wanted to grow my own for the fresh taste. Unfortunately there are only 2 plants left.
DeleteWe have lizards and frogs in the garden and they come out in the cool of the evening. We can hear the small lizards, salamander maybe, make a murmuring sound and the frogs hop all over the place. Love our wild life. But a road runner? That's amazing to me who has only ever seen them on the comic strip.
ReplyDeleteKeep that young man away from the fryer! Heavens, weren't they all afraid of a grease fire? Could have been very dangerous.
I agree with Tiggers Mum. Maybe if you leave it, don't water it for sure it will grow. Hope so. Wouldn't it be marvellous
I will keep trying to grow the tea. Maybe I'll try a pot instead of the garden next time! Then I can ignore it properly. I already know that if I don't water it, the seedlings will die.
DeleteI did see a small lizard yesterday, so at least the roadrunner didn't get them all ~ but Romeo saw Nike (yeah, we named the neighborhood roadrunner) saw him/her yesterday with a large lizard hanging out of his beak.
I have never seen a roadrunner except on Bugs Bunny. That is so cool.
ReplyDeleteat 7am this morning it was 80 degrees. I'm over summer already! I want to skip summer and only have spring, fall and winter. The missing ingredient in your cornbread is weird huh? I would think butter of all things would be surely missed. I'm glad it worked out. You can send some if you'd like and I wiill review it for you. 😀
Ha ha. I think it might not be so tasty by the time it made it's way to you! All of the plain cornbread was gone, but there were still some left with jalapeños.
DeleteI am not a big fan of the hot weather. 80 at 7am? That's brutal!
What an eventful Monday! That fish fry sounds absolutely terrifying—I'm glad everything turned out okay and that the cornbread was still a hit despite the stress. There's nothing like a 7 a.m. dog walk to start the day off right, even if you have to share the park with a roadrunner on the hunt. Enjoy the rest of your week (hopefully with zero fires)!
ReplyDeleteLol, no fires at my house! But those flames, they went all the way up to the hood, and that's a commercial stove. Luckily no one tried the fire extinguisher, because that only spreads it. Yikes!
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