Posion Ivy and graph paper

Poor Tom. He got it bad. Putting in that boundary wire stirred up the ivy roots and zapped him in the face. He looks like the elephant man. I had no idea he was so allergic! Now I know what that stuff is on Amy now. It just didin't seem right that they would be get poision ivy before the leaves were even out!
Antihistamines is all we can do for them. Once again I didn't get any of it. I find that amazing since I was out there doing the same thing. It makes me itch just to look at him.

Went to a friends house where three families will be digging up our first vegetable garden together. Today is the day. Sod and little trees must come up and make way for our small 15x12 garden. One of the mom's suggested that I map out the garden on graphing paper, using each square as one sq. ft. of the garden. NO WAY!. put the carrots here, the cuc's next to the bush beans, the garlic next to the carrots and basil in between the tomatoes. There! Done! No graphing paper! Hello? Graphing paper? gadening? Exact science? Too anal for me. I had my laugh and now it is time to dig. I must search the web for dried coyote urine bags to keep the deer out for the garden is too small to put a fence around it.

~"Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying."--Tryon Edwards

Egg Salad and Boundary wire.

Going to visit my friend Cindy who is moving next month . She invited me over for a "last day on the job drink." More like drink-s! I will truly miss my good friend. We have a special friendship. We are like sisters. Lots of people think we are , which is so cool! LOL. She made me promise to bust her anytime she starts to sound or act like her mother. I love that Job! Now it will have to be done in long distance. Not so dificult I'm sure. E-mail is awesome, but in person in invaluable. Our friendship is for life, I am comforted by that. I predict alot of crying from this day until she leaves next month. I will be very active in the move, so that may help.

So while eating egg salad, (yesterday) YUM, my husband is outside getting ready to start an invisible fence in our yard. 1000 feet of wire will be placed 1-3 inches underground . A two day job easy! Tomorrow I start the training process with Mackinaw, my two and a half year old tri-sheltie. What a good dog....but.......he has issues! LOL. What alot of work this will be. But I think it will pay off faster than the manual says, because Mack isn't difficult to train. I look forward to him staying out of my garden and out of the neighbors yard in back, who already threaten to call the humane society. bummer.

Getting ready to go on vacation for two weeks. At least I'll have my husband home for two weeks. That honey-do list is so long! So I have narrowed it down to a few things that are most important and scraped the rest for now. That reality! We need to have some fun man!!! Not to mention a little Bling-Bling!

"I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."--Robert McCloskey
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Farmers Market

The parking is good when you go early. I got up late today. Making coffee and going to head out the door in five minutes. Flowers and other fun things are on my list for today. I look forward to seeing something new. The smell of mushrooms being sauteed in a pan will make my stomach growl. Today I will purchase and plant. Today I will dig up and transplant. What a beautiful day it will be. I also have a friend who will come over and help me, how cool is that?

~And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.--Anais Nin

Sibilings

The homeschooling group made a trip to Grand Rapids to the Meijers Gardens a few weeks ago. Going to Grand Rapids reminds me of my sister Patty. This was the last known address of hers that I have. So lying in bed this morning , not able to to get past 5:30am, I started thinking about all my brothers and sisters. We don't talk! We don't at all, in anyway get a hold of each other! I have fax numbers, cell phone numbers, email addresses and home addresses, but still no communication. It has been like that from the beginning. The only thing we have in common is a father who had no business having children. Six of them. Michael, the oldest has been married three times, following dad's path nicley. Vicki, who died a fews years ago from alcohol posioning married twice. Mark married twice as well and to follow is David. I find it amazing how disposable marriage can be in our family. Not to mention how disposable our brotherhood and sisterhood can be. I'm sure they think " man, I should, but I won't" or I can't" or if I do there would be no response and then what?" "Okay, I tried? What would be the point?" I cannot gain back what was never really there in the first place. I do feel a loss but the same time they are strangers. Our lives will problably never pass each others. Even if it did, I wouldn't recognize them. At times I am grateful for not having all the drama that comes with a close or semi close family. The baggage I've seen........But at the same time I've seen wonderful aspects of family that I crave and have achieved in my life through my husband's family and friends whose life styles I respect. So , hey siblings, I hope you've found what you have been looking for in life because I have!
~p.s. give me a call sometime.

~Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family.--Thomas Jefferson

I like me!

Hey! I'm alright. I am so alright. I like myself these days. I've turned out to be an okay person in this world. I want to expand myself though. I would like to see myself in a more active roll in our society. I'm not quite sure what that is yet, but I'm working on it. I have found nitches in my life that are so me. But I have a need to expand on that, making it bigger. I think fear has a lot to do with me not making it bigger , but that's okay, I'm into facing some fears. What can it hurt? who can it hurt? my life....my good life would not be damaged. The same people who trust and love me now will love me after anything I might try.
So hears to spreading my wings a bit and making a difference for others!

~"Come to the edge," He said. They said, "We are afraid." "Come to the edge," He said. They came. He pushed them...and they flew.--Guillaume Apollinaire

That Darn Cat!!

So the weather outside is delightful and my dears the cat is a pain in the ass!
The windows are open and this is cause for the cat to communicate with us (me) every two to three hours in the window to have a snack! I have no soulution yet except to say NO!! & GO!!
In the meantime I haven't had much sleep again for the fourth night in a row. I'm not sure if it is really the cat or just me. Hormones are interesting. You can take a pill to take care of it though. I have tried that. I found it worked , but there were losses in other areas. (wink ,wink). So off the happy pill and on with reality and the patterns created by mother nature herself. My ability to cry at the drop of a hat kind of sets me back a bit. But it shows me that I am alive and human.

Life in the yard is coming together nicley. I love being in the garden. I never want to stop and do anything else when I'm out there. "Please, just give me a day to my self life".

My good friends Sal and Cindy are moving to Salem Ohio! I can believe it. They are leaving us!! US!!
okay, grow up. This is Sal's "dream job". How can we deny him of his glorious find? It's just four and a half hours away through the most boring driven state. This will be the second time I've had to say " see ya Sal and good luck to ya". I've had my time in sorrow with them last week. Sal was sweet. He has this vision of us all coming together in the retirement years. It was to come back together and live in a communinty situation . Being neighbors until death. What a vision. Why can't we do that now? So lives go on, and life long friends go on until death. I am truly grateful.



~"Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends".--Richard Bach (Illusions)

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Hey, it's April already! I've been in the yard ( my favorite place to be) raking up what is left of the fall leaves. uncovering garden snakes and toads. Lots of plants coming up. The excitement of things that have been moved or divided are coming up in new places. I have so much to do out here! Hey, I have all summer! Beading has been quite a therapy for me these days. I have mastered a pattern that I cannot seem to get beyond. I need a new beading book. My husband thinks I should sell them on E-bay! Shocker!

We have reservations for a water park for the girls next month. They have saved up their allowance for months now to pay for one night at this water park. I am so proud of them. They say it is easier to save money than to spend it. I think they get that from their dad; not from me!

Easter tomorrow and I have a part in a readers theatre as Mary Magdalene. It will be mighty early in the morning but it will be fun. Then off to Grandma"s house for Salty ham and cousins who bring their X-box in tow...so sad. I think I will say something this time. Such a trouble maker am I.

Went to a baby shower that was not joyful. A 17 year old babyshower is not something to be celebrating. All the aunts were there and one friend from school who just a has baby three months ago. It sounds like the Father of her friend is going to marry her and give it their all. I will think of them often.
One of the Aunts was asked to speak at the babyshower before it started. It was too much. Need I say more? I could, but why. I'll get over it.