What You Need For Thanksgiving

Turkey
Stuffing
Mashed potatoes or other potato dish
Yams of some kind
Gravy
Green Jello salad
Cranberry sauce
Coca-Cola
Egg nog
Bread of some kind. Yeast rolls are perfect.
Pumpkin pie
Apple pie

Saturday

Tired. Worn out. Took the kids on a walk earlier. Worked in the garden for hours. Flynn helped trim some of the bougainvillea. I arranged some half-bricks under the bird feeder and some bricks along where the morning glories and moonflowers are planted. Tied up the tomatoes. Further trimmed the lemon and lime trees. I want to have throw grow along six wires running the length of the garden towards the back. Espallier the trees.

I'd like to train the bougainvillea along the house. It's an exuberant grower. I just need to direct it and keep it trimmed so that it grows where I want it to grow. Same with the trees. The lime tree has grown but the lemon tree seems smallish. They're both trimmed to three branches each. Very tidy.

The strawberry plant I'd grown from seed has berries now, tiny strawberries, very cute.

Would still like to do something with the front area. Took some cuttings from an impatien growing alongside a houseplant type of fern and stuck those in a planter box. Amend and clean the front area and plant those out there. Impatiens ought to do well in that area. Need to remove a shrub that died. Trim the bougainvillea more when I have more trash space to put all the trimmings somewhere other than the walkway. Trim the lantana. The lantana does not smell nice. Tie some of the bougainvillea branches onto the house. Keep after it.

I could get after the weeds growing out in the very front area. I put some bricks there to serve as a walkway a long time ago and they could stand to be tidied up a bit. As could the bricks in the back near the air conditioner. Could also extend those. If I had more bricks and sand. Get those things eventually. If we keep this house. Hopefully we will.

Anyway. Worked in the garden. Good and tired. Garden looks nice. Best garden I've ever had.

Monday

Initiated a withdrawal from my IRA at Solomon Smith Barney. Money to exist on for a few months.

I can hear the trash truck outside. Wonder if they'll pick up the pallet the fountain was delivered on?

I think that the fountain is leaking. Should have used clear silicone sealer.

Going to call and order a replacement "flow adjuster" for the pump in the fountain.

That was the weekend, huh? Went by very fast again.

Watched football yesterday. Napped. Napped, napped, napped. Baked. Baked, baked, baked. Made fudge, which didn't quite set. Made a pumpkin pie. Made a cherry pie. Baked some oatmeal-chocolate-chip cookies.

Baked a chicken on Friday night. Fixed hot dogs and cowboy beans for lunch on Saturday. Made cheeseburgers for dinner on Saturday. Made a big breakfast on Sunday, managed to incinerate the bacon I'd bought. Sausage links, bacon, hash browns with eggs cooked into them (kids didn't approve of that idea). Toast.

Changed eight gallons worth of water in the big tank today. Didn't have any water left over to do a water change in the small tank.

Gift wrap order arrived on Friday, doesn't seem like $300 worth of gift wrap, bags, ribbons, et cetera.

Did they take the pallet or not? Trash is picked up.

Bought Cassidy a used videogame on Friday, bought one for myself called "Killzone" which I looked at but didn't play much of.

Last Thursday we went to a Girl Scout pre-meeting @ Graziano's.

I think I'll order that replacement part for the fountain pump now.

Feel better having initiated a withdrawal from my IRA. Several months worth of money to live off of.