Today, while Richard Bonomo was otherwise occupied, we his wives #1, #2, and honorary (i.e., Kathbert, me, and Luxuli) fought with weeds in his backyard. Luxuli and I attempted to mow the lawn with the old skool push mower, but the grass was so long in spots that we had to give up and pull out the electric mower. That worked so well that Luxuli got ambitious and dug out the electric weed whacker to happily mow down a bunch of weeds at the edge of the yard. Meanwhile, Kathbert was pulling up a rotten old wooden fence and yanking out grape ivy. She pulled a bunch of grape ivy away from the rosebush that I pruned, so now it looks fabulous. Hopefully it will bloom this summer! (It never did last year.) Guinness looks great now that the grass is not overshadowing it. The Easter lily I planted last year is coming back, but there is no sign of my balloon flower yet. The neighbors on both sides were doing yardwork too, and one of them gave us a hosta, so I planted it in the shady front yard.
After all that work, we were tired and hungry, so I baked an acorn squash that Light Bright had given me, as well as the seeds, and Luxuli made a spinach, fennel, and orange salad. We washed it all down with the remnants of a bottle of chianti that Cecil Markovich had brought over for some dinner party. Maybe it was the fresh air and all the physical activity, but somehow it just seemed to be the best dinner ever.
*Note: of the three women involved in this story, only one is actually a wife, and not to Richard Bonomo.
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