Mid-Week on Wednesday

In The Squash Patch

Mama Cat has abandoned her bucket in favor of the squash patch!  

It's been a beautiful sunny and warm day, today, with the daytime high being 83F.  Well within my comfort zone.  I brought in the empty trash can, but, the recycling did not get collected!  I checked it at 5:30 p.m. and it was still full.  Maybe they'll collect it tomorrow.  

I've been taking it relatively easy, today, because there was a slight pain in my hip.  I cleaned up after Dancer in the morning (he threw up in my bedroom and in the family room) and will do his litter box later in the evening.  I put away the laundry from yesterday, too, and did a bit of paperwork;  that's about all I've done.  

M tended to the garden, today, watering the plants, and he washed the back steps for me, because Chicken Little had left its calling card, again!  This is a photo I took of Mama Cat and Chicken Little, yesterday, enjoying breakfast:

Breakfast Companions

They are both eating turkey pate (there is a food bowl, behind Mama Cat, but, she takes stuff out of the bowl to eat it and so the back steps end up getting messy).  For those who don't know, Chicken Little is my other next door neighbor's chicken, but it spends most of its day in my garden; I don't know if it has a name, but, I call it Chicken Little, although its not that little anymore!  

M brought me a small plumeria cutting some time back and it almost died over the summer, but, it has put out two small leaves.  This morning, I attached an artificial plumeria flower that had been a hair ornament someone had given my daughter, which my daughter no longer wanted, to a small twig and pushed it into the pot with the plumeria plant:

Plumeria "Flower"

I kept it to see if M would be fooled by it, but, he's too good a gardener for that!  He noticed it and commented that someone had put an artificial flower in the plant and asked if I did it.  I was laughing and he just shook his head at me!  LOL!  That's my pineapple plant in the pot behind the plumeria, grown from the top of a pineapple (another gift frm M).  No pineapples yet, though!  M brought me a Thai basil plant cutting, today because the other basil plant I had bought got burned to a crisp and died.  The Thai basil is supposed to be hardier; we shall see.

I spoke with aunt C in the evening and sorted though another small basket.  It held some old make up and I tossed some of it.  Then, I applied some nail polish to my nails; something I have not done in years!  I was surprised to see that the bottle of nail polish was still OK.

Today, I am grateful for:

- A sunny and warm day
- M's help with the garden and gifts of plants
- Phone calls and emails from family and friends

- Clean water to drink

- Being able to take it easy when necessary

Today's joyful activity was trying to play a prank on M, trying to get him to think that the plumeria cutting was flowering.  It didn't work, but, it was fun trying!

Plans for tomorrow will depend on how I feel, but, I would like to get some more paperwork done.

How was your Wednesday?  What are your plans for Thursday?