Good Grief!

 Good Grief!  Here I got all tickled after seeing and buying a sunflower plant that had one large (it was a baby sunflower) and 4 baby sunflowers underneath.   I paid 10 dollars + the usual 10% state tax, and had to pay the lawn mowing man to plant it as my soil is very hard, clay and chert.  I can't dig a hole.  So that was just over 20$ for my little fella.  I was so proud of him.  Today they came and mowed (not the owner--- who is the one who planted the sunflower for me. His daughter and a helper did the yard today while I was gone, and killed it the plant. Took me literal years to find one already planted and growing and doing well.  I wanted to nurture it and make it grow tall.  Poor thing was about 10 inches tall. I'm truly sad about them mowing it down.

I know there are more important things in the world to worry about but my life is already filled and overflowing with important issues.  I was taking a small joy in this little feller to offset the rest.  

Meanwhile I started a slow cooker pot roast this morning.  It's done.  I had some...my goodness gracious...GOOD GOOD GOOD. That is an expensive meal now.  The meat alone was $16.00 and add the rest...veggies etc.  It was and is worth more than every penny.  Rare that I fix a meat meal for myself.  I do for one of Katie's human brothers though when he's here.  He may get here in time to have some.  It's darned good.  I'm not a good bet on saving  any for him!  

Meanwhile it's Labor Day and the most still and empty one I have ever seen.  Used to be some great sales back in the last years.  Not now. Nothing anywhere.  

OK  Done moaning about my sunflower.  So long little fella.

Lunch and Stuffs

 Well, I had lunch with a colleague of mine!  It was old home week extraordinaire!  Loved the gossip, catching up work talk..and just seeing someone who went thru the same tough times of career.  

He's forced to eat better now.   Heart issues. Told him I had never NOT seen him practically empty the salt shaker in his food.  No more.  It's been months since I saw him as he was recovering from surgery.  I only knew about it when his wife included me in the  text notifications after it happened.  We ate food that we ordinarily wouldn't choose.

However, I have to say I would have chosen two of the four veggies offered in the veggie combo.  The baked potato and broccoli..I asked for butter on the side...I always do.  Delicious with that seemingly quarter pound of butter they seem to plop on top of it...but I eat it without.  Just a little salt, and LOTS of pepper.  I had steamed broccoli too...nekkid of their buttery seasoning.  I added the usual, salt and pepper.  I chose the fried apples and the coleslaw which are always  excellent, but too too fatty for me so I asked my friend to eat it if he wanted to.  (you have to choose 4).  It is an excellent restaurant but the food is SO caloric.  He had salad.  I don't care for salad. Never have.  We talked a long time and got up and headed to our homes. 

I'm sitting here waiting on lunch to digest so I can get up and prance around doing my low impact aerobics.  

Occasionally I eat a meal like everyone else.  Going to "Cracker Barrel" does me in.  I just have to get the meatloaf and 4 sides...or the chicken fried steak and all those sides...have to.  I suffer awfully later, thinking I may blow up, explode, on the way back to the car.  But it's worth it sometimes. I love that place.  And oh, keep sweets away from me.  One bite and I'm done for. I broke myself of them months ago (again) and I've lost close to 10 pounds so far with eating good-for-me-foods and not much of it.  Maybe some day my Prince will come.  :-) 

Light outside says Autumn is here.  Temperature however says broiling summer. 

Looks like Cecilia and I are fellow weenies!  See her comment last blog up regarding exercise and masks in the last blog above. Loved it.   Picture below is taken in the arboretum.