Those of you who know me well, probably know that I truly appreciate beautiful yards and gardens, but that I don’t quite have the knack for it, or the resilience required to create and maintain such a yard. Fortunately for me, Aaron’s Mom seems to be “green” from her head to the tip of her toes. She’s like a plant whisperer and even better – she likes to garden at our house. So earlier in the summer (before the conditions were drought like and everything started to look brown and unhappy) Rita came up from the Cape for a visit plus gardening session and brought Lisa’s dog Lindy along. In her short stay we visited a couple of garden centers and Rita managed to charm one of the staff into locating and delivering some plants we wanted that were out of stock. She’s good with plants and people – it’s crazy! There may be some “Nonnie-charm” (my grandmother Nonnie can get anyone to do anything) growing here.

We spent a good portion of the visit working in the yard together, but also squeezed in some dinners out, a movie, some games and of course a lobster/steamer dinner for Rita and Aaron (I’ll stick to my chicken salad, thanks). It was a fun and productive weekend.
Now if she could only control the weather…