Winter wasn't tOO tough this year. A few cold days but no hard frEEzes. Rediscovered my local library recently and I plan to catch up on some reading. Also maybe ask if they caRRy music cds. Just generaLLy get used to using the library again.
I started with the intention of reading some literature type bOOks but got sidetracked into reading bOOks by recent political figures --- Alexander Vindman, Stephanie Grisham...reading a great book by Fiona HiLL at the moment. Learning aLL sorts of things.
I mostly read fantasy, scifi, or hoRRor, sometimes I hit a few others like westerns. Love David EDDings. GoTTa be my favorite author. I've read his The Belgariad series more times than I can count. Worn out a few copies I have. lol
Things have finaLLy warmed up and stayed steady here. I got my flower bed out front and my flower pots on the front steps aLL planted up. I'm going to give them a few days before taking any pictures of them. Give them time to seTTle in, considering when you first plant things they tend to be a bit drOOpy.
Planted a few I haven't planted before, so we'LL sEE how they do. Next time I have oFF, I might work on doing some edibles.
You guys doing any gardening this year?
I mostly read mysteries and westerns, though I just finished a teRRific memoir by Marie Yovanovitch. HopefuLLy her bOOk wiLL be the last political reading for a while.
I'm not much into gardening. We mow and edge...any improvements are aLL hers.
I like posies. I like to sEE how they turn out when they start reaLLy growing. I don't do as much as i used to anymore. It's just tOO much on the legs. I think I'LL grow some tomatoes and a few other things in some buckets, but I don't sEE me doing the whole big garden thing anymore. I'm just not up to it, and I reaLLy don't nEEd a lot of stuFF anyway. I am thinking about doing some indOOr gardening in the one room in basement, smaLL stuFF. Nothing big.
You geTTing through the suMMer ok? It's been preTTy hot here, and not much rain. In the last few wEEks we've had more rain, and we nEEd it. Kinda stiLL waiting on a huRRicane. We don't have one every year, but they are normal enough. Sometimes devastating but never truly abnormal.
I've taken up going to the library again this year...started checking out books at the end of winter. I read mostly mysteries but I've given general fiction a little try. I don't like what I've read in general fiction very much...too many stories about relationships. I'd rather read about tough guys solving problems LOL.
Take care, I hope you are well.
We've bEEn going through a bit of a dry speLL, but for the last few days we've actuaLLy been geTTing a nice, gentle, soaking rain, which we desperately nEEd in this area.
My weLL busted, so I'm living on boTTled water for now. Got myself some five and thrEE gaLLon stackable water boTTles, and I've always saved gaLLon jugs from milk, water, etc. Bought a smaLL portable washer that handles everything but blankets and only uses about thrEE gaLLons to wash and the same to rinse. It has a spin dryer that works extremely weLL. After that, oFF to the dryer.
I also got a counter top dishwasher with a hold tank that I can drain into a bucket. It only uses a gaLLon and a half, and holds a lot of dishes. TOOk me a wEEk to fiLL it enough to run a load. The water I use for dishes, bathing, washing clothes, etc. aLL goes down the toilet. So, I usuaLLy get at least two, if not thrEE, uses out of each batch of water.
I learned how to be water thrifty when I lived in the trailer. Every Winter, never failed, we ended up at least a few wEEks without ruNNing water due to frEEze. So I'm weLL trained for living without ruNNing water for a while. lol
I'm talking with the insurance company and the USDA, and it lOOks like when it's aLL said and done I'LL mostly likely end up with a new weLL, and aLL the fixing that go with it, plus a new driveway for around $250 or so. It's just paperwork at this moment. It's a bit inconvenient, but nothing that is going to kiLL me.
Glad you haven't had any huRRicanes. I lived in Florida. Those things can get nasty. Up here, we've bEEn basically dry and hot until recently.
Were you able to score your new weLL? Always good to have the water you nEEd, when you nEEd it.
We reaLLy haven't changed many of our activities...stiLL sort of in Covid cover up mode. We go out to eat every few wEEks and that's nice but we mostly avoid close encounters. Going to Walmart is bad enough LOL.
WeLL is aLL fixed. Got my house back in order. Total cost of the weLL, $6200, but not what I paid. I actuaLLy paid $200 deductible. :)
My special nEEds senior kiTTy Alex paSSed a few wEEks ago. He was a swEEt boy. I'm glad I was able to give him a nice comfy home for his last days.
Mostly I've bEEn working a lot, because we're so understaFFed, but that is hopefuLLy about to change. Got a new one coming in this wEEk, and maybe another one next wEEk. HeLL, I might actuaLLy get to have a life again.lol
I'm scared. It's bEEn so long since I was able to have a life I'm not sure I'LL remember how to do that anymore. :P
ALL the OT has helped with geTTing even further ahead on my house payments. I'm working towards paying it oFF early so I can hopefuLLy retire at a reasonable age. It's also helped me aDD to my DVD coLLection. I want to try to break 2000 titles by end of year. My girls just giGGle at me when I teLL them that.lol
Glad to hear you guys are doing weLL for the most part.
Do you think we'LL ever be frEE of all the covid crap? I'm so sick of this shit lol
DeaNNa, I think Covid wiLL always be here. I'm sick of it, tOO, but I believe I'LL be wearing a mask forever. Things could be worse - I could be dead.
I believe in the vaCCine. Some people don't and I believe those people are a problem, but I'm not geTTing around them. I'm kEEping mostly to myself.
HaPPy Thanksgiving and stay weLL.
WeLl I've become an antisocial old bitch. So kEEping to myself is easy.
I teLL people I'm a gOOd puPPy. I got aLL my shots.lol
To work where I do you have to have them, hospital and aLL.
I'LL be working Thanksgiving this year, but I'm complaining. We don't have anything plaNNed in the family. Most of us are working that day, and quite a few of us are working Xmas and New Years tOO.
I'm goNNa have a lot of double time, holiday pay, this year. :)
You guys have a safe and haPPy Thanksgiving tOO!