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Monday, June 20, 2005
Seeds, Paving Stones, And Ants
I just returned from a trip to the ghetto grocery and I state for the record that growing vegetables is not only the tasty way to go, it is cheaper. Earlier this A.M.....at 5:15 A.M. to be exact, as Porkeee and I finished our early detail around the neighborhood, we went once around the back yard and I decided it's time to stop pretending that the summer squash are still too young to die. I picked as many as I could carry. Coming indoors, I plunked them into the vegetable bin in the fridge. Then at the store a few minutes ago, I learned that those squash are worth $2.29/lb. Wow, what a deal. I paid fifty cents for the seeds that produced all of those bushes which now are loaded down with squash.
So far this summer I have used the lettuce and tomatoes...every day I send a washed bag of beautiful, green lettuce home with Lydia..and, of course, I eat it too. Lydia uses it for salad, puts it under the main course salads I have been trying to invent. I break it up, add a cut-up tomato plus feta cheese and dressing and that is extremely GOOD!
About tomatoes, Lydia has limited use because Dan hates them. However when she's here, I try to find a way to serve her something with real, home-ripened tomato because that kind is soooooooo good. My plants literally bow down with fresh, ripe ones.
Now we move on to paving stones. This A.M. I watched TV and learned that streets around here were originally paved with quarried "stones" of solid granite. Stones such as these have entered the homeowner vocabulary as either "that heavy stuff I can't grass-clip around" or the ultra-desireable flower-bed border. My flower bed borders are all made of antique granite street-paving stones...incredibly heavy but lovely.
Today I decided to organize the kitchen cupboards..such as they are. Only one cupboard had a trail of ants leading to it...diminishing, I admit, but still there. One cupboard still had no ants as of this A.M. I have kept a couple of cereal boxes in the car trunk. They have the spoon 'light sabers' so desired by Star Wars fans. Today I decided to keep these boxes in my house for a couple of weeks until everyone has a chance to see the newest Star Wars movie. I stood on tippy-toe and delicately teetered the two boxes onto the top shelf in my kitchen. Less than fifteen minutes later a solid line of ants proceded from and to this cupboard. AAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
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