Vinnie’s Vlog

Leo is asleep.  Lily is getting her hair blow dried.  Her hair is like spun gold when she gets it washed and conditioned like tonight.  It’s getting long too – now just past her shoulder blades.

I went to the grocery store while Lily napped today.  The store was filled with Cowboy jerseys.  I was asked three times – “Where’s your little helper?”

We got a little rain today.  Not sure it amounted to too much – probably just enough to wash the chalk art off my drive way.  Good – we’ll have a clean canvas tomorrow night.  While it rained, Lily and Diane went around the block for an hour or so and played with Lily’s friend.

I made burgers on the grill (it had cleared up by then) and now I’m just waiting for the end of the Dallas-New York game before I head upstairs for story time.

So, unless Diane gives me any material – I’m probably done on the computer for the night.  I’ll update the POTD here shortly, but other than that – Vinnie out!

Let’s see…it’s only 10am.  We’ve had our pancakes.  I gave the kitchen a much needed thorough cleaning.

Leo is taking a nap and Lily is in the pool, or the sandbox or somewhere in between.  She’s really waiting for Leo to get up because somebody told her he could go in the pool with her.

We (minus Leo) are sitting outside on the back porch watching Lily and enjoying the weather.  It’s nice this morning – a little breeze and just a few puffy clouds blowing by.  The sun seems bright today.  I’ve been out here for a half hour and I’m still squinting.  Diane is sitting in the sun reading a magazine.  And I’m at the table sipping my coffee.  Diane told me I should come out in the sun because I look pewky white.  Again,  I doubt I could get away with a line like that.  I’ve seen pewky white.  And I’m not pewky white.  Lily, however, has lost her tan lines from the summer.

I suppose I need to head to the grocery store and maybe Lowe’s.  My pressure sprayer died this week.  I figure I can buy $15 worth of parts to fix it or spend $20 and just get a brand new one. 

Finally a cloud has blocked the sun and I don’t have to squint.

The banana trees were knocked way back after the freeze last week.  The little damage I did get to the citrus trees is obvious now too.  The grass looks pretty good.  The cold probably did a good job killing some weeds.  I think I lost a couple of small oleander.  The bouganvilla really got burned as did my sea grapes up front.  They’re too big to cover, not sure what I could have done to help them.  I put a hot lamp under the sea grapes – that sometimes helps, but not this time.

Cloud is gone.