August rush
I'm drinking hot coffee why?
Boys are out for a game at Ged's. I should be cleaning the house while they are gone, but it's just so warm. Although really, this past week, while a hot one, is at least a normal August heat, and not as humid as it could be. I can deal with 90 in late August. 96 or 98 is another story. But I will be glad when it's back to the 80's.
Biv called in sick today (happy dance, happy dance). As it was, I had an early start since Himself was off to Nantucket with camp at 6:45, so I was at work at about 7:30 for a change, figuring I'd have time before Biv needed to be picked up. (Oh, have I mentioned I have to give her a ride to and from work? Well, she could take the bus, but that would take a bit longer and it used to be on my way when I was doing my father's routine. Not sure what I'm going to do when school starts. Might just get her at 9 and give myself some time to think in the morning. I'd like that.) I got a grave tamped and re-sodded and when I got back to the shop I got the message that she was sick. Actually, I kind of expected her to call in, or hoped anyway. She announced yesterday she was getting her period, and was moaning and groaning half the day about being tired. Do other women do that at work? Announce their menstrual cycle? Anyway, I figured with the heat, and her period, she wouldn't be up to working too hard today, and I had stuff to do. As it worked out, I got a ton of stuff mowed and whipped without her there, and I didn't have to feel bad about her being ill. Yeah team. Can we do this more often?
There was a nice breeze blowing today that kept things cooler, although the sun was hot.
My brother has been cleaning out my father's house bit by bit. He's gotten rid of two of my uncles dressers and one of his own that he never used, and has a taker for some old bank cabinets that my father just 'had' to have that have been sitting in the kitchen collecting junk. They are being donated to someone with a garage where they will make a fine bench.
I weeded a bit at the house and checked on my corn. Looks bad. Tiny tiny ears on some of the corn. I have two varieties. One is taller and just starting to produce corn, so there's hope for that, but the others look like I am growing those baby corn you get in Asian food. But the winter squash is still growing, so there is that. I hope we get a bit of rain soon.
In my garden, lots of tiny green cherry tomatoes waiting to ripen, and more winter squash. not much else edible till the fall if the carrots and beets do anything. We'll see. I've been shredding my newspaper and putting it in my compost bin for more dirt. I need more compost. I want more potatoes next year. Ones that can read. I lost more sunflowers to those damn maggoty things. I pulled them out and drown them in a bucket. I may have one more to go. Uck.
Good for Barney Frank for putting the Nazi poster in her place. It's a stupid comparison. If you want to argue, can you at least put people up that have real questions or real concerns, not just crap? How about this "Con. Frank, after the debacle on the Bank Bail out bill, where it was crammed through congress without anyone really knowing what it was about, and being full of pork, and then having congress say they would 'fix it later' and still loans aren't being made to help the people losing their houses; and with Social Security and Medicare on the verge of bankruptcy in the near future; and with China owning most of our debt, how do you intend to put forth a government run health care system that is any better than what we have now, and how are you going to pay for it? And why won't you step back and look at how to fix the problems now in the system that can be fixed before undertaking making another out of control government program?" Well, maybe that's a bit run on, but it's what I'd ask.
Boys are out for a game at Ged's. I should be cleaning the house while they are gone, but it's just so warm. Although really, this past week, while a hot one, is at least a normal August heat, and not as humid as it could be. I can deal with 90 in late August. 96 or 98 is another story. But I will be glad when it's back to the 80's.
Biv called in sick today (happy dance, happy dance). As it was, I had an early start since Himself was off to Nantucket with camp at 6:45, so I was at work at about 7:30 for a change, figuring I'd have time before Biv needed to be picked up. (Oh, have I mentioned I have to give her a ride to and from work? Well, she could take the bus, but that would take a bit longer and it used to be on my way when I was doing my father's routine. Not sure what I'm going to do when school starts. Might just get her at 9 and give myself some time to think in the morning. I'd like that.) I got a grave tamped and re-sodded and when I got back to the shop I got the message that she was sick. Actually, I kind of expected her to call in, or hoped anyway. She announced yesterday she was getting her period, and was moaning and groaning half the day about being tired. Do other women do that at work? Announce their menstrual cycle? Anyway, I figured with the heat, and her period, she wouldn't be up to working too hard today, and I had stuff to do. As it worked out, I got a ton of stuff mowed and whipped without her there, and I didn't have to feel bad about her being ill. Yeah team. Can we do this more often?
There was a nice breeze blowing today that kept things cooler, although the sun was hot.
My brother has been cleaning out my father's house bit by bit. He's gotten rid of two of my uncles dressers and one of his own that he never used, and has a taker for some old bank cabinets that my father just 'had' to have that have been sitting in the kitchen collecting junk. They are being donated to someone with a garage where they will make a fine bench.
I weeded a bit at the house and checked on my corn. Looks bad. Tiny tiny ears on some of the corn. I have two varieties. One is taller and just starting to produce corn, so there's hope for that, but the others look like I am growing those baby corn you get in Asian food. But the winter squash is still growing, so there is that. I hope we get a bit of rain soon.
In my garden, lots of tiny green cherry tomatoes waiting to ripen, and more winter squash. not much else edible till the fall if the carrots and beets do anything. We'll see. I've been shredding my newspaper and putting it in my compost bin for more dirt. I need more compost. I want more potatoes next year. Ones that can read. I lost more sunflowers to those damn maggoty things. I pulled them out and drown them in a bucket. I may have one more to go. Uck.
Good for Barney Frank for putting the Nazi poster in her place. It's a stupid comparison. If you want to argue, can you at least put people up that have real questions or real concerns, not just crap? How about this "Con. Frank, after the debacle on the Bank Bail out bill, where it was crammed through congress without anyone really knowing what it was about, and being full of pork, and then having congress say they would 'fix it later' and still loans aren't being made to help the people losing their houses; and with Social Security and Medicare on the verge of bankruptcy in the near future; and with China owning most of our debt, how do you intend to put forth a government run health care system that is any better than what we have now, and how are you going to pay for it? And why won't you step back and look at how to fix the problems now in the system that can be fixed before undertaking making another out of control government program?" Well, maybe that's a bit run on, but it's what I'd ask.