Beryl and Greg's Day

The only big news we've had this week is Hurricane Beryl and a birthday for my best guy, Greg. 

Greg had a birthday Saturday, but we played a game of "who's under the weather today". Both Nana and I weren't feeling well Saturday. I had guests coming and they graciously agreed to put off visiting until Sunday.

Mine was nothing more than exhaustion and allergies, but poor Nana is slowing down. She hasn't been herself in several weeks. Some days are worse than others. She still wants to be part of the pack but she rations her energy for all but the most important tasks. 

The heat has been especially hard on her so we keep her inside except for necessary potty trips.

Sunday, one of our guests dropped out because he was feeling poorly. It must be catchy. 

Another friend, sheepishly admitted to me that while she loves visiting with us, she's not comfortable with people she doesn't know.

I told her that was perfectly fine. I'm actually the same way. Although we've held parties with lots of people, I don't like that kind of social activity. It's just a lot of banal social chit chat, and you have to flit around from person to person so no one feels left out. You really don't get to talk to people and find out how they're doing.

That's why we tend to invite just one couple at a time. That's quality time.

In the end we celebrated with two different people one on one. It was nice. Greg got his once a year Italian cream cake, and I got a clean house. 

Hurricane Beryl, on the other hand was an uninvited guest. She hit this morning. 

We're further north so all we're getting is rain. Corpus Christi and Houston will get the brunt of it. It's been downgraded to a Category 1. As long as no one is stupid and drives through a flooded area, everyone should do all right. 

I'm grateful for the rain. Unfortunately, our water bill will be ginormous this month. One of our water lines feeding the back garden busted. There's no telling how long that water ran. At least a day. 

All this after a week of finding out the water timer had lost its programming and had not been on. This garden is on the other side of Greg's shop. I don't normally go there, thinking everything is on automatic, but I learned the hard way I can't trust it. 

The blueberries suffered the most and I might've lost a lot of the strawberries. We'll see.

I've gotten most of the landscaping trimmed and weeded. It's back to weeding the gardens--once it dries out.

How's it going by you?

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