by Joyce harvested some pretty nice plums from the tree in the meadow this week. They have an excellent flavor. I don’t know how they got past the birds but they did. Joyce is chagrined that two of the plum trees she planted aren’t like the one she got fruit from this week. The don’t bear any fruit at all.
Abigail played her last volleyball game of the spring season last Tuesday and it was a pretty good one. In the first game her team was well on the way to losing when Abigail got the serve and held it until they got the lead. They wound up winning that one. The other team won the second game and the rubber match was nip and tuck all the way. Abigail’s team had a 21-17 lead but went to sleep and wound up losing. Abigail wasn’t on the floor at that point. It frustrated me that they lost but it didn’t seem to bother anyone else.
We missed out on some potential rain this week and we’re losing the greening effect of the nice rain we got week before last. I told Jill I thought the place would still be green when they were here for the 4th but we are supposed to have some hot, dry weather this week to it may just be greenish by next weekend.
Ever the optimist and believing the drought over, I went ahead with what I planned to do last year but didn’t because of the drought: I traded my old mower for a new one. I’ve just finished doing some mowing with it, the first I’d had a chance to do, and I’m very pleased with its performance. Its pretty much the same mower as the old one except that I had them put a mulching kit in it and it has four wheel steering. The latter helps it turn very sharply so it can mow around trees easily. That’s very handy in many places on SA and the new mower is less fatiguing than the old one. I think it’s interesting that it cost almost the same as the old one did 20 years ago. Anyway, I happy with it and hope that it holds up as well as the old one did. It should since I wasn’t around the first ten years of the life the old one to see that it was serviced properly and will be for the new one.
My little friends are off visiting their cousins in Garland so I didn’t have anyone to watch a movie with in the man-cave yesterday evening or to walk to Braums for an ice cream cone with, not to mention not having anyone to watch Phoebis and Ferb with this afternoon. I’ll be glad when they are back.