After morning mass, we tried to buy chayote squash unsuccessfully from Safeway, which was selling the veggie at $1.99 each! We went home “disgusted” and Maw was able to make lunch: a “tinola” dish soup of chicken and fresh-cut chayote vines from yesterday and yellow banana squash from our back yard.
Paw and I did the yard work for Friday morning’s pickup of garbage, recycling and yard trimmings. I helped prepare the table, changed into my garden clothes (which was whatever I had in the closet and drawer), donned my blue dust mask and went into the backyard to use the electric blower.
From around 9:00am to 10:15, I’ve completed hauling eucalyptus debris from the backyard and dumping those into MY side street. With the electric blower, I cleaned up underneath the fence, the sidewalk and street, too. How is that for community service and for free, eh?
Paw otherwise took two hours until noon-time just for his procedure of setting up his lawn mower, mowing both lawns out front and back, sweeping the loose grass on the cement and cleaning up his equipment.
What I noticed was the city’s utitlity truck of white at around 11:00pm. It made a U-turn on MY long stretch of road. It didn’t have a chance to waste my taxpayer’s money by sitting idly by across from us.
From now on, I plan on doing early morning yard work. The father of Leoni (a former co-worker of mine) told his family not to work under the heat of the sun between the hours of ten in the morning through two in the afternoon. It’s not good for the head.
And thank goodness, the yard work was done because the air was already hot by the time I was finished with my supporting activity as gardener.
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