It's nice out, but still jacket weather. Go figure, I was in shorts and a T shirt last week and the week before. We're finally experiencing what late winter is normally like in March.
I planted my weed seeds late last week. I bought 5 seeds. The first seedling to come up is the strongest. The second is the next strongest. 4 of the 5 seeds sprouted. I think that 2 strong seedlings are enough as long as they continue striving. I put them out just now outside. It's 60 degrees out but warmer in the sun, of course. We have a slight breeze. My little plants with their first leaves need real sun, and a bit of a breeze helps them toughen up.
This morning I had (and wanted to) go to Ellisville. I need to pick up some free boxes from the post office, and pick up beer and nicotine. But what I was looking forward to was dumpster diving for cardboard. I got a monster box that had not yet been baled up for the landfill. It was a box for a delivery of watermelons. It was a muscle box. A nice black man asked me if I needed help. I figured that I could manage. When he saw me struggling to get it out he came and helped me. He managed to get it out of a tight space and we, mostly he, got it in back of my little car. I also manage to dumpster dive several other broken down boxes from behind a a coffee shop. That was my fun for the day. It sounds silly, but it was really fun.
Then I went to the beer/nicotine store to stock up on the necessities of life. I buy enough of both to last 4 days. It isn't easy to carry 2 15 can boxes of cheep beer out, but I can manage. It always seems to be a black man who offers to help me. It seems, at least here, that Black men are kinder to old bent ladies than White men.
I told the guy who helped me load the killer box in my little car that he was a nice man. He said that it feels good to do a nice thing. I said the same thing to the guy who helped me with the beer. He said that being kind was just what he should be. I had the same experience with a black guy who helped me at the hardware store last week. He said that he always started out being nice, and took it from there, I'm like him.
