I tried seeds from a new company whose stuff we carry at work:  High Mowing Seeds.  Organic.  I got some lettuce seeds, planted them.  Lettuce typically takes 3 to 5 days.  These: eighteen hours, for Pete's sake, and they were starting up just beautifully.  I can grow them up into baby lettuces in our cellar, long before it's time to do anything in ( Read more... )

It was understandably a small crowd at church today.  Ray was officiating, so I was by myself in the pew.   A friend of mine, Nancy, whose attendance has been a bit erratic since the summer, when her husband died, popped up behind me and said hello.  I went and sat with her ( Read more... )

Cooked tonight's dinner: chili and corn bread.  Emily had accepted my request that she make the corn bread, but she's got a bug and doesn't feel like cooking, I'm sure.  I cleaned up the dishes from that, plus finished cleaning up after last night's meal, putting the remnants of soup away in a proper container in the fridge.  Transferred two other ( Read more... )

Listening to a Canadian jazz station.   Eating French crepes.

Mixing the crepe batter this morning, before Emily got up, was my way of thanking Emily for the amazing job she did last night, watching over Zoey and cleaning her up when she pooed and horked.  Em truly did an incredible job.

I even mixed up some whipped cream with sugar in it, for ( Read more... )

Work yesterday was...interesting.  They had me on register 22, near the front door.  Mighty cold.  Wool socks, long sleeved shirt, and an additional layer under the shirt didn't quite cut it.  Oh well.  I survived.  About five o'clock, my EFT froze.  The small terminal through which you run credit cards, etc. simply stopped working in a way which ( Read more... )

Not wanting to bestow this bug I've got on anyone else, I didn't go to church today.   However, I followed yesterday's weeding/organizing session with a good hour of scrubbing the front of the kitchen cabinets, which are painted.  I swear there are gremlins who sneak into our house and smear stuff on our cabinets and counters.  I know there aren't ( Read more... )

I took today off from work.  It's about 60% for my physical health, 40% for my mental health.  Hence the title of this post ( Read more... )

It's hard to say if Ebony really is any better yet.  Ray thinks her foot looks better; I see scary signs that the skin is breaking, but that might happen no matter what.   I'm tempted to tie a plastic bag around the foot when she goes outside.  I may call them tomorrow and ask if that's a good idea ( Read more... )

Yesterday was so wonderful and today was not.  This is probably TMI, but I've been sick to my stomach all day, along with udda thingza, as we say in this household.  Right now I'm congratulating myself on having kept down a quarter cup of diet 7Up.  So far.  My darling Ray got me saltines and chicken noodle soup for my dinner tonight, if I ever get ( Read more... )