Door to Door Sales Ducks

These characters! All they would say was "AFF-WAC." I told them they were a bunch of quacks and needed to hit the road before Fudd stuck a fang in them.

Other news this week: Brad might move in with us. He wants to go back to school and really liked the programs he saw at the community college here, plus the benefits of my cooking and condo life.

Tom and I had a nice weekend taking some rides on neighborhood bike trails and cooling off in the pool. On Saturday we picked green beans, some spinach, beet greens and grape tomatoes from our little garden. We also ate our first tomatoe and I sprinkled it with chives and basil that I snipped from clay pots right on the balcony. Why does everything taste so much better when it's from your own dirt?

WRITING UPDATE: Thursday or Friday will be my writing day this week. Things are coming along thanks to the writing buddies I pictured last week, plus going to Prairie Pond Woods this past week and writing with Cindy. I also went to Dayton Scribes and got a lot of encouragement from them. If you read my posts from last year at this time you'll be reminded that I was a little lost. I feel much more on target now. I wonder what will transpire by next year?

Thanks for checking in on me.

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