random thoughts – Day 2,307 (Thursday) – lunch, dice, and plants

Bacon cheeseburger with fries and pickles.

A spontaneous lunch invitation livened up a potentially dull day. Mom, Sis, my youngest niece and I, after brief discussion about who was already hungry, who likes what, and what places are nearby, chose Kay’s Dairy Bar as our target destination. It has a varied menu, and we debated sharing an appetizer and then having ice cream, but in the end, we all ordered lunch plates like adults. It was good.

After lunch, we went back to Mom’s and played Yahtzee. The dice were not favoring me today. My niece rolled a full house so many times we wondered if the Universe was sending her a message. I kept rolling crap and ended up taking zeroes when I missed required combinations, which also felt like a message from the Universe.

After a supper of grocery store ice cream, I decided to plant the spaghetti squash Sis gave me a few weeks ago. Knowing there is a ground hog that visits the yard, I checked what plants they hate to surround and protect the squash plant. I got lucky and it was several plants I wanted anyway, including basil, lavender, and rosemary, plus bleeding heart, which I planted a couple months ago.

Tiny backyard garden.

In a matter of minutes, I was in the car and headed to Tractor Supply where I bought a second pot of basil and a lavender plant. An hour after the internet search about plants, the squash was finally in the ground near the bleeding heart, flanked by the new basil plant and the one bought a couple weeks ago. The lavender is nearby, still in the original pot, while I decide if I want to try and split the plant. The plants were surrounded with wire flower bed edging to keep the lawn mower at bay.