I
have just been laid low by a bad cold and have been as crook as Rookwood. Cate
got it from one of her staff – and then she gave it to me. She has told him how
unhappy I am.
Yesterday
Javier and Joe came to connect the fountain. This required them to dig and get
power under the back path. They dug for most of the day and then gave up. There
are too many rocks in the garden. They have gone away to think of another
solution.
On
Tuesday I was mowing the lawn and two men came along the street. One had a notebook
and the other had a large camera on his shoulder. The notebook man said he was
from a TV station and started to
interview me about high weeds. I said I had many broad leafed weeds – and I
showed him some.
But
he was only really interested in highs weed and questioned me about their whereabouts
and the state of the neighborhood in general. I said I really did not know
about high weeds so we left it at that.
Yesterday
I saw a man in the back garden talking to Javier and Joe. I asked him who he
was and he said he was William Niles Wishard III. Our house is called Wishard
Mansion because his grandfather – William Niles Wishard - lived here from
1907-1941.
He
lives in Malibu and comes here every year for the Indy 500. He has some photos
of his father – William Niles Wishard II - being married in the house and is
going to bring them next year.
Next
I will tell you about the Stanley Hotel.
It has been an amazing Spring. It rains here so often that it is difficult to find a sunny patch of time long enough to use a lawn mower. I haven't watered my grapes in 43 days. I saw we just got included in a flash flood alert from this evening through the neXt 24 hours.
ReplyDeleteIs this your first mansion?
You wish hard, you get a mansion. I'm impressed.
ReplyDeleteAbout time, and you know too bad the guy did not ring the bell and chat. I bet that would have been fun.
ReplyDeleteWTF are high weeds, too tall or too drugged up? Anyway my policy with the press, no comment or no speak English whichever works.
esb: We are also having some good spring rain. Will your grapes get mould?
ReplyDeleteSandy: It is only a small mansion - but big enough for me to spend so much time cleaning.
fmcgmccllc: I did not question too closely because I was not much interested. Your policy is correct.
I don't think mould is a problem for my grapes, they seem to get blasted with enough sunshine. It will usually only rain for four or five days in a row then we get a few hours of sunlight. It has been a wild wet month. I inspect them quite often for critters. I did finally find some good vine pruning videos on YouTube.
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