We got caught in Fair traffic for the first time yesterday, and it was ugly but not unendurable.

It’ll be over tomorrow.  I gave our tickets to Laura.

Received and was able to return the 23andme DNA kit yesterday.  Got the blood work done at C-Lab.

Picked up two loaves of Finnish bread for Ron and saw Bonnie and James at the O’ville farmers market yesterday.  One loaf has already been devoured!

Nassim Nicholas Talib’s The Black Swan: “Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories…”

Put in another small garden near the back steps.  Ron and I dug up the ground rather than layering.

Moved a big grass that was getting crowded out by the Joe Pye Weed and transplanted the small grass from Edgewater.  Put in an Agastache (Hummingbird Hyssop or Jewel of the Sierra Madre) a member of the mint family that I got for free at Mahoney’s, along with $20 of on-sale topsoil.

The other day, two hummingbirds flew within 3 feet of me, at about knee-height, while I was holding one of the new trellises.

They are magical, other-worldly with their lavish green plumage and odd behavior.

Attended the immigration rally last evening.  For a while, I was a loyal opposition of one.  Eventually, several other Tea Partiers joined me.

After the rally, our group and several members of O-F got together to talk informally and share ideas and opinions.  It was a great moment , and I hope to hold on to that in the days and weeks ahead.

Today I did some web work for Jim and O-F and brought the truck to Hyannis Toyota for an oil change and a free ($8) car wash.  They’ve added a valet service, a nice perq so customers don’t have to hunt for a parking space.  One of them is a student at Mt. Ida, the only other I’ve ever met besides Joan Allen!

Stopped off at Home Depot to order a new door for Emme and to the Organic Farm.  Unfortunately, the nice young woman that we liked to trade with has left to work with horses.

While I was gone, Ron watered all the gardens, the window boxes, etc.  Good man!

I bought some crabmeat salad at the Osterville Fish Market for a treat in lieu of more wine and hunted for short regular and soaker hoses.

Found a short hose, the last 15 footer, at Mahoney’s in Falmouth when I stopped in to pick up the trellises they’d had delivered for me.  We put up the trellises but they aren’t even.  Tomorrow.

I planted all four of the Montbretia (Crocosmia x. ‘Lucifer’) in the front side garden today. Some new blooms have started already, I think because I dowsed them. I was shocked at how dry they were in the pots, even through I’d tried to water them.

It wasn’t too bad to dig up the soil and enhance it with Ron’s good compost. Cleaned things up a bit, put down another pile of white marble rocks that Ron brought over from across the street, and covered with mulch.

We got a little light rain this evening, which was very nice.

Ron and I managed to get through the transfer station run and set up two hoses in the back yard for James. We observed National Ice Cream Day at Sweet Caroline’s.

This morning, I took a drive to the Otis rotary to see the protesters. Occupy Falmouth has been overtaken by the lunatic fringe. There was a flurry of email activity today, most of it unhelpful, and I’m ashamed to admit that I wasted time participating in it.

Did some NEPS work this morning.

Planted two of the Crocosmias. More rose bush pruning. Killed or captured a bunch of Japanese beetles. Set up the trap and sprayed the wasp nest. Put out the two bags of white marble stones that the Winslows gave us.

Thrilled to note from the tree sapling map that our young Arbor Day Foundation tree with the glorious leaves is an Eastern Redbud.

Pruned and pruned the roses for about an hour and a half. The amount of destruction makes me sick. I annihilated a few Japanese beetles.

Picked three summer squash from the garden. At this point, they may have paid for themselves, given the cost of organic produce.

We went to the Falmouth farmers market today and brought home a blueberry scone, donuts for Ron and donut holes for Laura, scallions, tomatoes. Caught up with Wayne the coffee guy. His kindness is one of only a handful of good memories from Fisheries.

Ron got to ride the Carousel of Light!

I made a big salad for lunch with our plunder from the farmers markets: too good.

Laura returned the bath towels (laundered, bless her), dropped off some compost materials and gave us a jar of her homemade strawberry rhubarb jam. Better than good!

Bought the three Crocosmia that Marcia Chapman at Soares had put aside for me yesterday. Was inspired by this magnificent display in a neighbor’s yard.

Now: to dig.

It’s been raining since early this morning. Last night, there were tremendous thunder claps, and we lost power, bit only very briefly.

Peter excused us from a ride we’d promised Emme.

I figured out another stupid web app problem of my own making. Had inadvertently left an old file with the same class name as a current file in the project, so the server controls couldn’t be referenced.

Earlier in the week, I’d left some bad debug code that resulted in hundreds of misdirected error emails.

After our Monday Senior Center run, finished Edgewater chores left over from yesterday, minor pruning and transfer station run.

Gave some business to the brand new Dollar Store in Dino’s plaza.

Returned uncooperative sunglasses to Dioptics for replacement.

Ron seems to be better today.

Yesterday I made fried fish for lunch. Ice cream and pretzels for supper! Did two loads of laundry, changed the sheets. Transfer station run for us, mailed Ed’s check at the Cotuit PO. Watered, watered, watered. Dropped off another sprinkler for James. Scrubbed two buckets and my poor pink clogs.

Ron cleaned and refilled the hummer feeders.

Creative project: rough painted small rocks to show where the soaker heads are.