Oh my. The trials and tribulations of children! Never had any of my own, but I have a husband who regularly regresses in age. I realize now why my parents enjoyed cocktail hour so much! We have grandkids (his daughter's), but rare is the visits as they're rather on the unruly side and we cannot take the attitudes and manipulations.
We're just plain ol' antenna TV here -- cut the cable cord eons ago -- with the addition of streaming Netflix and Prime. In the Time Before Covid we were Redbox DVD addicts. But, truth be told, we're so busy during the day with yard work and whatnot that by the time after-dinner TV viewing comes around DH & I both know we'll not stay awake too long.
Been busy in the yard planting and constructing! Hubby grew four hops tubers last year that nicely climbed up poles. He mulched them for overwintering. They have sprouted in a monstrous proliferation...whereas we had maybe 5 vines per tuber, it's now easily 40. His project yesterday was putting together a 8-foot high trellis arch. Once filled in it'll be a huge wall of greenery.
A friend had a surplus of tomato plants as our growers market got curtailed, so I put in an assortment of plants and constructed some automatic watering trenches for them...then had to fight some varmint that nipped a goodly portion of them off at the stalk and left nary a trace. Talked to the neighbor and she has a family of squirrels that have taken up residence under her porch, much to her dismay. She didn't want to pay for the exterminator who traps at a price per critter. So I set up my Squirrelinator, wrapped the remaining plants in chicken wire, and gave her some Gopher Gas bombs in case she wanted to handle it on her end. Went out to the veggie compound this morning and nothing in the trap...in fact, all the bait nuts set out were still there! Somebody on a blog suggested that perhaps quail were to blame. I don't know about that as the tomato plants were 18" high and stalks were pencil thick.
We're just plain ol' antenna TV here -- cut the cable cord eons ago -- with the addition of streaming Netflix and Prime. In the Time Before Covid we were Redbox DVD addicts. But, truth be told, we're so busy during the day with yard work and whatnot that by the time after-dinner TV viewing comes around DH & I both know we'll not stay awake too long.
Been busy in the yard planting and constructing! Hubby grew four hops tubers last year that nicely climbed up poles. He mulched them for overwintering. They have sprouted in a monstrous proliferation...whereas we had maybe 5 vines per tuber, it's now easily 40. His project yesterday was putting together a 8-foot high trellis arch. Once filled in it'll be a huge wall of greenery.
A friend had a surplus of tomato plants as our growers market got curtailed, so I put in an assortment of plants and constructed some automatic watering trenches for them...then had to fight some varmint that nipped a goodly portion of them off at the stalk and left nary a trace. Talked to the neighbor and she has a family of squirrels that have taken up residence under her porch, much to her dismay. She didn't want to pay for the exterminator who traps at a price per critter. So I set up my Squirrelinator, wrapped the remaining plants in chicken wire, and gave her some Gopher Gas bombs in case she wanted to handle it on her end. Went out to the veggie compound this morning and nothing in the trap...in fact, all the bait nuts set out were still there! Somebody on a blog suggested that perhaps quail were to blame. I don't know about that as the tomato plants were 18" high and stalks were pencil thick.
He's the youngest of my grandkids and the only one in a long term relationship. SMH We really love his girlfriend, but what are the chances ??????
