Glenda's Coming Home~

After three major operations on one leg and a couple of months in therapy rehab my dear sister-in-law gets to come home on Sunday. Joe, her husband, called right away to tell us the news and to invite us down for the week end next.  We will be there with bells on and a hamper full of goodies.  I am not taking a cake.  Since College Hill Bakery can't be beat, we will simply make a trip over there and hopefully we can do it when there isn't such a crowd.  I want to inspect everything this time. Today, if my legs hold up, I want to try the coffee cake from the last post which won a ribbon at the fair.  I am thinking that that base cake is what I need for various fillings to copy College Hill Bakery as best I can.

The big move has finished and everyone has settled in nicely at Many Branches.  I did not have to kill or maim anyone.  It was almost perfect and that is unusual.  Now in two weeks this enormous driveway of ours is getting extended and re coated. So that will be disruptive.  We have decided to put off the elevator until next spring.  I have had almost as much change as I can stand for one season.

I do have to get on my sagging soap box, once again, about hired workers.  I have never seen the like of such big babies in my life.  Two men said they could take on the grapevines, honeysuckle, and other choking vegetation both in the front and back yard along the fence line which our neighbors fail to do.  These vines are choking our trees, and theirs, but we are the only ones who care evidently.
Indeed the two did get the front yard looking pretty good but when faced with the back yard they suddenly developed a fear of poison ivy which they said was EVERYWHERE and if they even looked at it it would hop upon them and cause great stress.  I thought, if they didn't dress like Chippendale dancers, and old ones at that, they might avoid the poison ivy had they dressed appropriately. (I would have appreciated that any way.) They had planned to come back today to spray the poison ivy, and one did show up and sprayed, with a promise to return to work on Monday. Landscapers with sensitive skin....unfortunate.

Oh my.  Here comes Andy with gigantic vegetables and a boat load of tomatoes. What am I to do? I know, I'll take them to Cincinnati. I have frightened everyone around me in Columbus with vegetables, now I will take them on the road.