OilMan's New Toys

The UPS guy came staggering up the front steps with a pile of boxes and carefully stacked them by the front door. Our neighbors were just about to arrive for dinner so we just left them there. 

By the time I got back from class this morning, OilMan had opened the boxes and was sitting amidst piles of cardboard putting together his tall tomato cages. The hardest part, he said, was fitting them around the tomato plants which have already gotten quite tall and are beginning to sport some yellow blossoms. In fact, he was worried that he had waited too long to order these structures and that they had taken too long to arrive. The UPS guy told him that  his truck was loaded at 7:30am and he had been delivering packages all day, and would continue for another two hours until his truck was empty. (One of Tim's childhood friends is a UPS trust fund baby and probably never would have been able to predict just how wealthy he would be thanks to internet shopping and shipping....)

When I came back down from checking out the fruits of OilMan's labors, I discovered more "tomato towers" on the back porch, this time in a jaunty red color. "those are for the peppers, I thought red was a bit much for tomatoes," he commented surprising me with his design sense when it comes to tomato cages. He's now planted string beans, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, cucumbers, and potatoes. A volunteer squash plant can be seen about halfway down the left side of the box in the photo. 

This afternoon I dived into an enormous bag stuffed with every tee shirt and sports jersey Peter has worn since middle school.  I will be trying to fashion them into a quilt for him for his graduation. The gloomy weather and lack of sleep last night due to a moaning dog and a snoring man are conspiring to rob me of even a spark of creativity, so I'm leaving them spread all over the floor for another day....