Salad Days

Meaning there is so much to toss into a salad these days.
Gery gave us 2 tomato and 3 pepper starts on Monday, and I planted them after supper tonight. It was warm, the light was beginning to fade and birds were heading home. 
You have to cling to times like this when you can revel in the moment and feel peace even with a friend in the hospital and the country overrun with mean people wielding way too much power even after the worst of them lost the election.
Oh blast it! At the end of our Friday phone call with nhc, we congratulated ourselves on keeping the national direness out of our talk, it crops up anyway - ruining my peace.