We started out looking for yard sale signs about 8am, had skipped breakfast, because Herbs stomach still wasn't feeling very good. Our plan was to watch for signs and lemon trees. So we go to the major boulevards and then into the small cities or housing developments. We stop at many sales and at each one ask if they have a lemon tree, but no lemons, just oranges and grapefruit. We see many lemon trees, but I'm not brave enough to knock on just anyones door and ask if we can buy lemons from them. We do see bags of grapefruit sitting on curbs free for the taking but no lemons. I start thinking that I'm going to have to try making a different kind of pie. It is a good thing that Herb has an internal homing device, if it was up to me I would be lost in a cul de sac going in circles for the rest of the day. We don't find anything great and by 10am we are both ready to find a bathroom. We spot a community fair and we are in luck, they have bathrooms. We browse their sale, then start looking for a way out of the parking lot, when Herb spots some huge cardboard containers in the far corner. As we cruise passed the containers, we see that they are full of grapefruit and on of them it says LEMONS. This is a community drop for anyone who has fruit to share, they can bring it here for other people to help themselves. We fill a sack with the biggest lemons I have ever seen and start back to our condo. The sack immediately tips over and lemons are rolling everywhere in the back of the car. The fragrance is wonderful and we may have lemonade instead of pie! We stop at the grocery store for milk and bottled water to last the rest of the week and at last it is nearly noon and we are "home".
I season a lamb roast, put it in the oven, fix potatoes and boil eggs for a salad. Herbs decides to take a much needed nap and I do scrabble and email. We eat dinner after 3pm, then sit on our patio in the warm for the rest of the day, reading our books. We talk to both of the kids on ichat, Rusty is in Joseph. It is hard not to envy him sitting in my recliner, relaxing. Well maybe not? He says his truck with trailer is stuck in the backyard because of the melting snow, will get it unstuck in the morning. Bobi and Cienna are doing their usual Saturday stuff in soggy Portland.
Herb is watching weather reports for next week, deciding on our route home. Time in the sun is getting short. Laundry is on the agenda for today, think we will have a steak for dinner. OWAV:)
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