Information You Have No Need For

When I did my trash and post office run today, I discovered that the little black shoes I saw last week are still there although someone had picked them up off the floor underneath the counter (but still visible) where I had put them, and placed them back on the counter. 
Gosh they look sad, don't they? 
I wonder how long they'll sit there before someone throws them out. 
For any of you who may not be familiar with the Lloyd Post Office, here's a picture. 

It's an old train depot, built in 1858, which makes it a year older than this house and it's really pretty cool. The lobby of the post office is in what used to be the waiting area and the window where you buy stamps and take your packages and get your packages from the post person was originally where you bought your ticket. Only about half of the depot is used for the post office and the rest is sort of just there and holds some train memorabilia if I remember correctly from the one and only open house of the Gulf Winds Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society holds every year that I have attended. This year, it's going to be on Saturday. 
Here's the flyer.

There appears to be one major change in the even this year. Instead of grilling and offering hotdogs to the public, there will be pulled pork sandwiches! 
Now that's enough to get people off their asses and down to the PO to check out the artifacts. I doubt I'll go although if the pulled pork is decent, I'll be missing out. 

Here are a few more pictures I took at the post office while I was there. 

You can bet the ranch I won't be attending the tent revival although who wouldn't be tempted? I've seen a million of them on film but never witnessed one in person. Tempting but no. I'd probably misbehave and get thrown out which would make Baby Jesus sad. Now Liz Sparks would attend that in a hot second. I bet you anything she's been to at least one tent revival because she says YES to life in all its aspects.
Well, almost all. She's not insane.

I took this picture because the notice about placing children on the counters cracks me up. The phrase "place children" is just so...well...perfect?

But I had never really thought twice about that message board below it and its "Marks and Brands" heading. But what are Marks and Brands? I googled. And what I discovered is that Marks and Brands are indeed, the markings and brands put on cattle to identify them. And yes, cattle are still branded. 
Now Jefferson County was once and still is a pretty big cattle area. So that board was absolutely used by cattle ranchers as a place to post their marks and their brands so their cattle could be identified. 
Find a bull you don't recognize in with your cows? Check the mark or the brand, figure out which ranch he's from, and let the owner know where his bull has disappeared to. 

I've had a good day. I spent the entire afternoon in the garden. I pulled up dozens of cherry laurel sprouts which were lining the north side of the fence. Those GeeDee things would have grown into a cherry laurel forest by the end of summer if I hadn't. Glen cuts the ones that sprout in the yard when he mows but he can't get this close to the fence and if he just used the weed whacker, they would have said, "Thanks for the trim!" and shot up even higher. Luckily they aren't that hard to pull, being rooted only a few inches into the ground. I also trimmed the three rose bushes in and beside the garden and weeded out around them. Every year when I do this (generally twice), I feel like apologizing to the plants because I have no idea what I'm going. All I know is that I haven't killed them yet. I was so very, very careful to avoid getting my skin ripped by the thorns and for once, not a drop of blood was spilled. 
I planted the two Early Girl tomato seedlings that Jessie gave me in growing bags and gave them a good watering. It's supposed to start raining sometime in the wee hours here but if it doesn't, I'll turn on the sprinklers tomorrow. Despite my lack of overwhelming interest in getting things in the ground this year, peas, potatoes, and now two tomatoes have been planted and the dirt is ready to receive what we put into it. 

So all of that felt good and tomorrow I plan on doing more work outside if it isn't raining. I want to get some things done in the front yard as it looks a mess and it is a mess. I went out there this morning to survey the situation and I discovered that the trillium is looking more beautiful than ever. 

I don't know squat about trillium but that looks like pretty healthy trillium to me. 

And here's a bud on the wild azalea I planted years ago by the fence in the front yard. 

I think my iPhone deserves some praise for that one. 

It's very quiet here tonight. I'm going to make risotto. I haven't done that in a long time. I believe it will have greens from the garden, shrimp, onions, and sun dried tomatoes in it. Oh! And quite possibly some asparagus. 

Sounds good to me. 

Be well. 

Ms. Moon