Dorothy, you may need to also innocently remark about that new platform for the chair! Good work!
Charmion, has the light-headedness cleared up? And are you pretty close to your goal by now? It's September in Canada, so I suppose you've looked at the lined jeans and flannel shirts in the closet? Do they all fit?
Patty, when do you expect to be back in New Mexico? Will you have help unloading stuff at the house and do you have the various furnishings you need to have a comfortable new home for the foreseeable future? I'm so thrilled to think of you getting set up and settled in and figuring out all of the various community offerings.
September in Texas means it's usually in the 80s or 90s. With today's rain passing through the area it is a lovely 82o right now. (Tomorrow's high is forecast to be "much cooler" at 78o. I imprinted on what I consider reasonable temperatures when living in the Seattle area so I am not convinced that is "much cooler.") Anyway, this afternoon I dug up about a square yard of the bed beside the front walk and set aside more than a gallon of daffodil bulbs to use later. I worked until I filled a 20-gallon bin I use for weeds and dug to the edge of the patch of crinum lilies. I'll work more tomorrow, now that we've had rain and it's a little cooler. The goal for today was to clear a spot that would be behind my League of Women Voters sign that says "Vote as if Democracy Depends on It!" and it is in place.
I started the job using my new ('23?) spade fork and darned if the neck on the thing didn't bend! It's a Craftsman, but clearly not the kind of sturdy tool that Sears used to sell. This came from Lowes and I kept the "lifetime warranty" information so it will be returned later this week. Since I have a couple of other really old (but apparently more reliable) spade forks I got out one of those. There is one in the greenhouse for the back yard and one in the garage for use in the front yard, and one that has 3 of the four tines left that I often use to prop up things in the garden. I bought the new one when I was thinking of discarding the 3-tined one. Oh, well.