Ron told me a story a while back that “stuck” about a passionate interlude he shared with a ballet dancer named Sally after being inspired by the life-affirming film “Zorba the Greek”.

I wasn’t planning this consciously, but last night, I asked him to watch one of favorite guilty pleasures, “Dirty Dancing”, perhaps hoping to recapture some of the magic Ron experienced with the ballet dancer years ago.

Without going into a lot of detail, the aftermath was about what I should have anticipated, given Ron’s history with beautiful, slim, desirable women.

Sometimes I wonder about what myself and what I expect from this good man who married me out of a sense of responsibility and respect.

Fed the roses this week. We watered on Monday and Tuesday and got over an inch of rain on Wednesday night. Sprayed “8” on the grass at the edge of the garden to cut down on earwigs.

Larkspur is blooming.

Ron’s friend Bonnie and her husband Joe are due tomorrow, so we packed in almost two days of errands and yardwork today.

Ron mowed yesterday and we had some rain last night. I replaced the violas in the second window box with marigolds. We did the transfer station run for here and Edgewater and had a nice short visit with Peter.

I dropped off DVDs to the library and picked up some things at Roche and the hardware store. We went to Botello to browse.

The big deal was moving the pumpkin out of the garden. Ron had to cut the fence but he patched it and it looks fine. I 8’d the lupine and dead-headed the roses.

The hyssop is gorgeous and the lavender, Stella d’Oros and Evening Primrose have started. Waiting for the potentilla and the hydrangeas now that the lilacs have gone by.

I got Ron a 1 TB external drive for Father’s Day.

Ron made a really nice salad last night and after our holiday from the kitchen in Rindge last week, I’m back in the mode of cooking as well.

We’ve eaten grilled swordfish, chicken, steak and cod over the last couple of days. I made a big fruit salad: grapes, watermelon, blueberries, cantaloupe, bananas, apple.

Whatever I was doing last year, it wasn’t as good as this.

Ron worked for a good part of yesterday afternoon to get the electric trimmer working, and he was busy for part of this morning cleaning up after the weekend’s mow.

We bought an electric edger which he also used to define the garden beds. This was after a big disappointment with a manual edger. April lent us her gas-powered machine, which started up great, but failed after a short run. I brought it to our small engine repair place.

We’ve been able to eat outside, which has been really nice. Did a lot of watering today and used the big a/c for the first time. It did a great job cooling the kitchen and living room. That and a small a/c in one of the bedrooms pretty much takes care of the whole house.

I would imagine that these women have never heard the word “no” or “ugly”….

If I were this beautiful, I could have been a CEO and a millionaire by age 40!

Imagine how wonderful life must be like for people who look like this…

I finally finished prepping the new vegetable garden this past weekend and planted corn, cukes, beans, squash and watermelon. Looking forward to seeing what “takes”.