From Dawn to Dusk

Fiorella was terribly depressed most of the morning. It was (and still is) the electronics again. She thought she had mastered (with elder son's help) moving a photo from Facebook onto her blog, but apparently not, because she tried to do it several times and kept ending up losing the picture. And to add insult to injury, when she posted her Halloween poem on FB, it turned sideways.
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Things brightened up during the afternoon,  when friend Marla called and told Fio that, thanks to her inquiry, a protocal was being put in place that would assure older people receiving their mail-in ballets. Also, SHE ASKED FIO TO DESIGN A VOTER REGISTRAR BUTTON FOR EVERYONE TO WEAR!
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Later on, friend Fernando y su sobrino drove Fiorella over to a place where she could buy a few more flagstones and a load of dirt to fill in the flagstone pathway. Then they went to Home Depot, where Fio bought almost $275 worth of Asian jasmine. The new pathway was finished off (although Fiorella will probably rearrange it later in the week), but the jasmine was placed, but not planted. With below-freezing weather being predicted for the weekend, Fio hotfooted it outside the minute Fernando left and brought every single one of those plants up to the garage door before neighbors Michael and Kathy picked her up to attended the neighborhood Halloween party.
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If your Fio ever had a doubt about moving, she doesn't now. Although she and Husband had attended the Halloween party religiously for the last sixteen years, there was, quite simply, NO ONE FOR HER TO TALK TO--no one to exchange the latest about their families, whatever project they were working on, current events, or even the unusually cold weather. How dull can you get?
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As soon as friend Al delivered Fio to her front door, she hustled around to the garage, opened it, and two by two, carried all the jasmines inside to the warmth. No way her mother's daughter was going to let almost $300 in ground cover freeze overnight.