Thin Slices of Joy

MMM grilled peaches. We're awash in green beans, zucchini & cukes. The neighbors are going to start avoiding us LOL.

Last week was my first full week of new part-time job. I spent it getting access to the various systems and taking online training. Hoping my supervisor gets on the ball and provides me with parameters. So far, I've been guessing. I told him before I came aboard that I needed Weds mornings off to see my mom and he agreed. Lo and behold, there's a weekly team check-in every Weds from 11 to noon. <sigh> So I change my visiting time with mom to Weds afternoons so I can participate in this ongoing meeting. Just received an invite for another meeting this Weds from 1-2, which I declined. Check my Outlook calendar! My mom is more important than a meeting. If they want me there, they can reschedule. My slice of joy is being a rehired retiree who wants to do a good job but is no longer driven to succeed. I will work on my own terms, TYVM.

If you like Carol King then please see her musical "Beautiful". I saw it in NYC and it was phenomenal.

I like Carole King and have not yet seen Beautiful. Hope maybe next year somewhere.

And an even older goodie = Joan Baez and Silver Dagger from a 1965 concert.

I have a bay window in the eat-in area of my kitchen which overlooks my Japanese maple and the hummingbird feeder. The hummingbird feeder is fiercely guarded from intruders by a ruby throated hummingbird. Right now he is roosting in the maple preening himself. Finished with the preening, he has been resting on a branch in the interior of the tree for at least the last ten minutes. Who knew they could stay still for so long? He seems so content. He sometimes hides in here to watch for intruders and then we have some Star Wars action as he chases off the competition.

We stopped filling the bird feeder to prevent spread of the disease that is currently spreading on the East coast so I do miss seeing the birds. Mama doe and her 2 fawns just appeared in the woods and I don't mind that they eat the greenery there but they have been foraging in my garden and the new Red Hot Poker plant I just installed is now missing all its flowers and the new perennial geranium suffered as well.

Beautiful day with a mild breeze and low humidity.

Supper was BLTs with romaine lettuce from our garden and the first of the ripe heirloom brandywine tomatoes. OMG so good! Big fat slice of summer joy.

To quote Guy Clark (one of the world's greatest songwriters): There's only two things that money can't buy and that's true love and home-grown tomatoes.

MinusTwo- you went to school with Joan Baez, how cool is that!

Hello MinusTwo

I am just popping in to say how much I enjoyed listening to Joan Baez and Bob Dylan yesterday. They were so much a part of my life in the sixties. To hear the beautiful voice of Joan Baez cheered me up so much in these troubled times. I was so interested to know that you were at school with Joan Baez.

Best wishes.

Sylvia

Hello SerenitySTAT,

Thank you for your welcome. I see that you are from Montreal. My husband and I spent four years in Montreal when we went to live in Canada in 1977.

It is true about music from the past. I love music by Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash, not to mention some of the great French singers, such as Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour. I also like the three tenors and of course Frank Sinatra, Perry Como and so on and so forth!

Best wishes.

Sylvia