The Hidden Garden

I have 2, this is the first one where my pepper plants are residing. They are the only food I grow except herbs and horseradish. The horseradish is in the second hidden garden. Big Daddy is mulching and the rains are making my garden grow. It has been unseasonably cold-this morning when I left for work it was 57 degrees. Jacket weather.

I am having the worst case of Rosacea ever, it has been a month since my medical scare. That is me, I am your woman in a crisis-but a month later I am something frightful.

OOps, just noticed those weeds in the grass.

The kids are on a camping vacation and now headed to Mt. Ranier, on their way back home. Punkin Head said they are trying to get great pictures.

I have been training a new person the past couple weeks. She is bright, inquisitive and a charmer-I think she will do great. She has never done this work before so some of the particulars will be harder to learn, like reading blueprints and such, but she will be working the off shifts where that is not quite as important. I am calling her trained as of today--I am not being paid to train her so I think she is just fine. And can call the boss if she has questions.

The neighbors are all fine, The Slavs are proudly showing off the vineyard, the tat lady next door is growing some beautiful yellow lilys I can see from my family room, the orange cat from corner survived-I saw him this morning licking his paws. Big Daddy thinks the Flower Lady came home from rehab, but I have not seen her.

More to report this weekend, it seems I can only manage a couple of posts a week right now, work is just too busy.

Ghostly images

This is Big Daddy's picture where he thinks he captured a ghost. That is my newly planted Lobelia.

We are now done with planting and need to put down the many bags of mulch and put out the sand pots with candles. More pictures to follow.

Punkin Head and DIL are traveling through the Tetons and camping.

Resting up for the week ahead which appears to be a bit thorny.

On my last nerve

I will just keep posting random as the garden grows pictures.

It is like Spring here right now, chilly mornings and cool days. Maybe just a bit of heat in the afternoon and it cools right back down.

I had my doctor visit for the results today and all is okay. If anything else happens I am to get in their right quick, but for now it is probably a weird cyst that burst---and I gotta say I am the Queen of weird cysts and their bursting.

I am up writing this at this time of night because the crazy ass bitch on nights lost her shit and woke me up, she has no capacity for problems and it seems tonight she is inundated with them. She also is stupid and cannot remember that I do not cover nights. I asked her if she called my boss and she said told me no, she was gonna try that next if I did not answer, for the third time she called me. So, I called the boss, checked the emails, sent the emails and returned the calls. And wrote down an hour of O/T for this nonsense. And my boss asked me if I thought he should go into the plant. Remember those old Excedrin commercials?

Punkin Head is headed to Yellowstone, happy camping.

A lovely 4th of July

Due to a last minute "smartness" on someone's part we did not have to work on the weekend. It has been lovely.

Big Daddy made a pizza. Fresh mushrooms and it was delightful.

He bought the dough from Farms Fresh Market, a buck 99 and it served us well.


Work has been testy of late and this has been nice to just be free. I slept the afternoon away on Friday and it was blissful. Sammy dog is so happy we are home with him and he is living large.

We redid the front porch with new pots, the traditional geraniums and some trailers. It looks quite nice. I only have a few spots left to fill in the back and we will be all done.

This year is just wonderful.

2 down and 2 to go

As I have mentioned I collect Gutta Percha jewelry, sometimes known as Victorian mourning jewelry. This is my latest find and the second best I have seen in a while. I gave my mother the best one for Christmas one year. Don't think she cared for it. This is the only one I have set on a base, this one mother of pearl. I paid the most for this one, over 300 dollars. They are getting rarer and rarer. It has the original pin in the back so I can use my bulldog pins. Excellent.

Well, I had the regular pap and a biopsy today, need 2 more tests and pending results a D&C. I go back in 2 weeks. She said everything actually looks pretty good at this point, meaning I guess the C word. I am having moderate pain and not happy right now.

The doctor, female, did say she thought my hair color looked nice.

Gotta go make new appointments for these tests.

A pretty view

The lake is pretty this year.

Well tomorrow is the big day, the long awaited doctor appointment.

I am ready.

Have you ever worked with someone truly stupid. I hate to say this, but one of the results of union contracts is that occasionally really stupid people get jobs that they are totally unqualified and unsuited for. It is a crime. But if you have seniority you can have that job. At one of the former plants I covered one guy up and quit one day. He did not really quit, he disqualified himself from the position as he was about to get fired. Because he mucked the job up horribly - - - because he was not qualified.

Just an example, I am sorting parts and we discovered the left side was also suspect. I called the sort company and told them to read-across, start sorting the other side as both sides were suspect. The supervisor came to me and asked if both parts came from the same plant. That is like asking if each shoe in a pair of shoes came from the same company. Oh yea.

Well, tomorrow we are going out to lunch after the doctor or home to drink to excess. Yes, Big Daddy is taking the day off to come with me. He will however, work on his appliances all day long.

How you know you are all finished growing up.

I apologize for all the Sammy The Spanky Dog pictures, but he is just a pretty boy.

I had the week from hell starting up Monday and it is holding true to form. But during my trials and tribulations I got a cart ride (few and far between in this joint) and a vehicular ride-that is a true treat. People are telling me other people like me, and people are telling me they like me. I have certainly sold everyone a good of bills here.

I had to go out and buy new pants this weekend. Upside-my belting of the fat pants finally became unacceptable to wear to work. Downside-Chico's, where I have long bought work clothes has now changed into the only casual clothes mode. Too bad, as these clothes did fit. This is gonna put me on the hunt for work clothes and I hate that in pants. Any woman will tell you, pants are a bitch to buy.

How do I know I am a full grown woman? I have bad hair. There is no getting around it, it is shitty hair. A guy I have known for years sat down and said, "Bad hair day?", and my response was "yep". And I do not care. Yea, I wish it was better but I am not gonna sit down and cry like I would when I was younger. I have a ball cap from my company in the front seat of my car, just in case. It is what it is, even when it is bad.