I tried to invite my little from Big Brothers Big Sisters out for a Saturday photo shoot. By the time I got there I didn't see her around and called, only to find that she'd forgotten and didn't think she could make it before the free hours were over. Undaunted, I called around to find some Brooklyn-ite to join me. I got ahold of a friend that went to ASU, Ricardo who happened to be around and apparently is a super fast shower-er. He got dressed and walked over to join me in record time. We got to stroll around the gardens enjoying all the amazing spring flowers and then he took me out to lunch afterwards like a true gentleman. I will forgive him for not letting me take his picture :) The gardens were a paradise for anyone who wanted pictures of people taking pictures, haha and there were a bunch of Chinese ladies singing in a circle, and some really cute kids who loved the flowers. Ahh now the weather has turned dreary and cold again. I miss my taste of spring.
Saturday was a beautiful day here so I decided to go out and enjoy the weather while I could. I took on what I thought would be a small task, but what turned out to be at least two trashcans full worth of pruning. Our front yard has ivy growing like crazy and I thought it was trying to take over all of our sidewalk space so it should be trimmed a little. As I trimmed I saw an area where the ivy had grown up a little taller than the rest and I wanted to chop it down. So I went in with the sheers and ran into a rusted spring. I pulled and to my surprise out came a garden stake with a cat head on it that I hadn't seen in our nearly three years of living here. It was a little creepy looking so I tossed it aside. A while later I came upon a short wooden post sticking out of the dirt. I decided to pull it out thinking that it was unecesary. I believe I was correct in my thinking since I found out that there was a knife blade attached to that wooden post. Very strange. I added it to the pile. I started picking up the piles that I'd created and sweeping off the edges. and what do I find when I bend down to pick up something that has clattered to the ground, but another kitchen knife! I also picked out plenty of trash and dead leaves and a funny washer looking piece of metal. The kitchen knives are definitely the strangest part though. I can't quite figure it out. Perhaps some of the neighborhood kids stole their mom's knife to play with and left them stuck in my ivy as a good hiding spot. I don't think it was anyone particularly malicious, since they were pretty stubby knives. It was a very odd find.
Recap Defined
ri•cap 1 (rē-kāp') Pronunciation Key tr.v. ri•capped, ri•cap•ping, ri•caps
1. a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
2. To replace a cap or caplike covering on: recapped the camera lens.
3. Ri - a female given name: derived from Adrienne.
