preseason

The island nursery, Goose and Garden (an ironic name in my case given the incursions into my garden by a pair of Canadian geese and their flock of chicks), has really gone all out this year. Many heirloom tomatoes and other veg, beautiful flowers, annual and perennial. After a junket to the dump, where we picked up our spring wardrobes and a corner cabinet, the hardware store, the nursery, the Depot, and the grocery store, we'd pretty much sampled what Block Island has to offer. Until Friday. At which point everything busts open for Memorial Day and a weekend of—ohmigawd—more rain and many many more people.
Meanwhile my season has started without hot water at Claudia's, so I have to try to get a part for the AquaStar this morning. The cleaners and antkillers are coming to Hannah's, and then there is one last fluff and puff before folks arrive tomorrow.