Thursday

Took a bicycle ride ... hacked & wheezed & spit mucous. It is getting gray & dark and feeling like rain.

Oatmeal for breakfast ... supposed to be good for cholesterol ... adding cinnamon to it also helps lower blood sugar. Most of you young "whippershappers" don't need that information.

Some big tomato worm ate up all the tomato plants, the eggplant, and the green pepper plant, while we were gone. Must have gotten enough to mutate ... because it is no where to be found now. It left the marigolds strictly alone. Some mint is coming back up. And the sweet basil wasn't touched either. Also, there is a teenie-tiny watermelon on a vine that popped up.

Charming to be back here ... instead of some nice desert like Deming, NM ... LOTS OF FRESH BUG BITES!