Well, I've been very cheap, VERY crabby and SUPER CRAZY lately!
Most of the week has been rainy. And there is flooding in some places. Boy am I glad we didn't plant my mater plants like hubby wanted to! We had some big ol toad stranglers, and that rain was really pelting too! Musta rained a tiny bit overnight, cause the cement patio is soaked. Supposed to have more rain today and tonight. Supposed to rain the rest of this week and through the middle of next week. How wonderful!
Even though the company hubby works for said he would be working five days a week all throughout April, he has only worked three days this week, and has the rest of the week and weekend off! And rumor has it that there are going to be more layoffs. If he's gonna get laid off....why they just do it and get it over with...I hate playing the waiting game! At least if they did lay him off right away, we could regroup, rebudget, look for another job or two, and go on with our lives. As it is right now, I have had many emails from the BIG BOSS, telling me and co-workers, that the budget is going to be sliced, diced and put on ice! And it's gonna get worse! If I still have my job this next fall, I'm liable to not have it full time, and I might not have a job the following year! Everything is up in the air. And it is stressing out my co-workers, my husband, AND myself! What does the future hold for us? We haven't the foggiest idea!
I just have to do the best I can do at my job, which I think I really have! And I need to continue...and try to put in my mind that I WILL be working until I retire. I WILL have the job that I have now! I may end up taking a second job during the summer. Who knows? I have really relished having a couple of months off during the summer. But getting a summer job may be a HAVE TO thing.
My kid MAY be getting a job very soon. She put her application in at the public library for a very part time job as a library page. Ten hours a week to start. But it would be a PAYING job. Not a volunteering job as she has done in the past. I think it would do her alot of good. Not only money wise, but it would be just a couple of hours a day, and during school year, it wouldn't take away from her studies/school work.
On to better things. My pepper plants are doing fine. Just aren't big enough to transplant into the garden yet. (And the fact that the garden is a SWAMP right now!) My rosebushes are all in front of the enclosed porch now. Just can't wait for them to all start budding and blooming out! And it will look even better because of the new siding on our house! I sure wouldn't want anyone to see the junk in our back yard though. Hubby has old tires and old windows and just PLAIN OL JUNK everywhere. Even when the town had a free city wide junk pickup a couple of weeks ago, hubby didn't want them to haul any of HIS junk OFF! (maybe I shoulda taken all the stuff to the curb without his knowledge! he wouldn't have missed any of it!) Oh... I took clippings of a couple of burning bushes, rolled the cut ends in root starter, and put them in some homemade peat pots (toilet paper rolls) and filled them with miraclegro potting soil. They seem to be doing fine so far. They've been in my peat pots for a week now. And no signs of drooping....yet. If they do well, I will be planting them in the front yard along side the three I already have (firemen trampled the others when we had a house fire!) this fall and they hopefully will do fantastic! Cheaper than ordering more burning bushes to plant! Will look kinda funky with three of the bushes and then little sprigs, but I will do what I can to keep people from trampling them again. Maybe put a barbwire fence around them?
Today is my 12 hr day at work. UGH! But I gotta keep my eyez on the prize! After today comes Friday. And after that, THREE DAYS OFF! Still need to get a form filled out to take my two personal days. If I don't use them before the end of May, I lose em! I have NEVER taken a day off for being sick or otherwise! And I have a yuckky cold right now! But I'm still pluggin away! Thing is...the more responsibilities the bosses give me....more of those duties pile up and are still waiting for me when I come back from taking time off! Nobody else does them! It's that way every week on Mondays anyway! They all send me dozens of emails. Then come Tuesday morning, I have all of Monday's work today, along with Tuesday's! But I've kinda gotten used to that. Boss loves the fact that I'm right next door to him now. So he dumps more work, work that he has normally always done, in my lap! I want him and others to think I'm indispensable! Guess I need to take those personal days. Would make them appreciate me more???
Well...gotta get around and get ready for work.

Yes, it's been awhile. Have had personal issues to deal with lately, so have been focusing elsewhere..or just not focusing on anything!
I checked my little homemade peatpots, and I see a few little bell pepper seedlings sprouting up out of the potting soil! I'm happy! Now if the rest will just follow!
The neighbor that did the siding on our house has left his trailor and materials on the patio and in the yard for a few weeks now. We really need that stuff gone, so we have more room to plant. Of course, right now it is muddy, and he would just be making a huge muddy pit if he tried to move the trailor and stuff. Hubby bought a couple of metal frames from a neighbor...to use as a strawberry patch. He then went and got a bunch of horse and cow manure and piled it into the frames. So now I have a raised strawberry patch, but no strawberry plants as of yet. Can't wait though...then freeze strawberries and use some to make jams. Yummy!
We had snow Saturday....in fact we had lots and lots of rain, then it started freezing....then sleet, then snow. Next day, it was almost completely melted! It's never boring weather in Kansas! I haven't taken time out to check my rosebushes I planted in front of the house.....to make sure they are okay since the snow. I am HOPING they survived well.
Nothing else to report for now.