What a very muggy day it's started out as! Makes me feel like I live in a tropical rainforest! Got laundry to hang outside to dry...I just hope the later the morning gets, the more likely the fog will be burned off and it won't be too humid. Gotta get clean laundry dry! And I prefer to dry it for free...via the sunshine!
Had a few storms roll through day before yesterday. Lots of wind, lots of hail and lots of rain! My mater plants look a little rough...some had little broken branches or whatever they are called. Yesterday they looked better and today they are looking better than yesterday. Most of them have blooms on them.
Gotta go through my books and put them somewhere. Got em stacked on my bedside table right now...pretty soon I wont be able to see the little lamp sitting there! Can't help myself...love to read. What an inexpensive pastime! Even less expensive if reading material is checked out through the public library, or going to the annual book sale there, or getting books the high school librarian is getting rid of. I know there are also books at garage and rummage sales. I just haven't been to any sales for a long time. Mostly because the price of gas outweighs the bargains from the sales. Costs lots of expensive gas to go here and yonder to the sales. So is it really cost effective? Not really....not unless I am hunting for something specific that I can't find anywhere else.
I still worry about keeping my job. But I am 70% sure that I will have my job for the next year. After that, who knows. Hubby is now starting to show his worry about his job. He's the main breadwinner here. So if he loses his job from more layoffs, I don't know what we will do. Of course my hubby is the type that WILL FIND WORK. He's talked about going thru truck driving school and then driving a truck. There are several different possibilities. He also thought about going to college and getting an associate's degree. But that doesn't help the money situation....even though the military would pay for his college classes.
Sure wish I could sew. I would end up making some of the kid's clothes...and mine. I do have a very basic sewing machine...very easy to operate. BUT, I was never taught how to sew. Knitting and crocheting...yes. Sewing...no.
Will be excited if our gardens do well. I will be putting up a lot of jams and veggies....Hubby said because times are getting harder...I may want to go ahead and start getting canning lids. I jave the jars, but no lids. I have the rings, but no lids. So I gotta get lids (flats). I may get a few smaller jelly jars, so I can give out jams as gifts...and maybe a few next year for the family reunion...if we can go. I hope so. I had so much fun this year....and there is always the chance that someone may end up not coming next year, because of serious illness or passing away. Gotta stay in touch with my hillbilly family. Love em all!
Family is the key word here. The harder times get, the more we depend on our family and friends and they us.
We try to live one day at a time, and not worry so much. (I am the world's worst (or is that best) worrier. Now hubby is worrying...which means things definitely will get worse. But I think we will be okay. Hubby says we have already cut back on things. But I know we can cut back more. It may be rough, but it will happen. Even my cutting out my homemade patchouli soap....which is my main luxury that nobody complains about. It's gotten more expensive, as the lady who makes it charges by the ounce now. And the last batch I bought has not lasted near as long. Maybe she is cutting back on some ingredients too. Who knows. But hubby said the kid and I will have plenty of time to go to the soap place and check it out and maybe buy some soap to replenish my supply. The woman lives in a big old stone schoolhouse! And they have a a small building where she makes the soap. She gives tours by appointment and you can watch her make soap and buy whatever your heart desires. My heart desires patchouli soap and ONLY patchouli soap. It stays with me all day and into the night. It isn't a strong scent either. But wherever I go, someone will mention they smell patchouli. And that's when I tell them it's my soap and where I buy it. I think the soap lady needs to give me a discount for so much advertising of her products.