Littlesister

I really hope this rain stops soon. I really want to work in garden and get it going. May is about here now and It's time to plant. Rain Rain go away, come back again another day. 

Well, never got to finish cleaning up the den. But tomorrow morning while waiting for garden area to dry up enough to be able to work out there, I will finish cleaning up the den. I am doing a deep clean. Much needed from using the wood stove all winter. It does create dust but dust well worth it for the warmth of the stove. I really enjoyed sitting by that stove all nice and warm reading a book. My bedroom is all clean and sheets now washed. So one room down, then den and then after that the dining room again. Table is piled up again. How does that keep happening. I have 5 cases of canning jars sitting on it for one things and dish towels I haven't put away yet from washing towels the other day.  I used to be able to keep up with all this housework but not for a long while now. 

Jeepers, I pray your sciatic nerve starts getting much better very soon. 

Becca Anne, glad the weather is holding out for you and you have really made progress with getting your garden in. Hopefully mine will be in tomorrow afternoon pending weather. Though I don't think we are having rain tomorrow. 

If I had a housekeeper, she would run when she sees GS's room. I have never seen such a mess in my life. But he is washing clothes, cleaned his bathroom and emptied clean dishes out of dishwasher all without me asking him to. Guilt trip over the closet door maybe. But at least he did it. He can do what he should he just chooses not to. 

Ambergris you just might be right with that.  He just put gas in his car not that long ago but then needed gas again. And he said cig. also. But I think he bought more than cig. 

Still not speaking and didn't even bother with his sister when she came to visit. Just looked at her and walked out of room. That has been an issue with him for a few years now. That is the faught of his parents. Will not join the family for meals at holidays but goes to his room and stays. 

Euphrosyne, I am the same when it comes to NOT IN MY HOUSE, NOT AROUND ME person as well.  DH and I had big issues with his DD and his step son over that. It was not a good situation and a long story about that. Lets just say his daughter had enough drugs that she bought in house to put DH and I both in jail and cause me to loose my DD. We found it and DH flushed it down the toilet. When she found out what he did. All he got was thanks a lot dad it wasn't paid for yet. Needless to say, she was kicked out of house and we kept the baby. She was 15 at the time. That is how we ended up keeping my step GD.  There is a lot more to it but I will leave it at that. 

Once GS is out of house end of May, I am cutting ties with him for a long while. 

Was getting ready to start cleaning the den really good and my DGD and her DH came in unannounced to visit a while. They are the ones in SC. I enjoyed the surprise visit. They are having dinner tonight with his  parents before he leaves to go in Coast Guard. They are packing up to move in with GD's parents next week.  When he gets out of boot camp he will be stationed in Elizabeth City, NC. That is about an hour from me. They will have to move every 4 years. But training will take place in Elizabeth City after he gets out of boot camp. He will be working on planes. He decided to go in because the medical insurance is much better and with starting a family now he wanted better insurance and a career, not just working for someone with louzy insurance and not much in pay. Plus they are talking about bringing back the draft. Rather they do it or not remains to be seen and he said he would rather have the option to choose what he wanted to do and what branch of military he wanted. Smart move. GD is just starting to show now. So will be needing maternity clothes soon. Her best friend is also expecting and was giving 3 cribs from family members. All brand new. So her friend is giving one to GD. So they already have a crib. Just has to buy a mattress for it. Her oldest sister is not going to have children so I will give that blanket to younger GD as it is no need to keep it and it sit in closet to dry rot. I also have one made for GS but he said he will never get married nor have kids. But he is young yet and stupid but maybe I pray he will grow up and get his act together. I will hold on to that one for a while just in case. They are going to have a baby shower at her friend's house not far from me in August, so I have plenty of time to get things together for them. Will be checking with DD to see what they need also, baby swing, car seat, stroller or whatever in the bigger items. 

Thunderstorms and hard rain today.  So still can't plant.  I just hope the weather holds out for planting tomorrow afternoon if sun is hot enough to dry out the garden areas enough that I can get into the gardens.

Seems GS spent most of his night in car. He's sulking right now. But that's ok as long as he is behaving. He's not looking for an apt. nor a room to rent somewhere.   I have spent the morning cleaning kitchen up behind him. Who eats 3 dinners. Pizza, spaghetti, and  and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. And doesn't gain a pound. That was his supper last night.  He did empty the dishwasher and put away most of the dishes. That was something. But I think that might have been the guilty part of him. Yes he got 

Jeepers, I really hope that sciatic nerve gets better soon. Are you taking anything for the inflammation? That video that Ambergris posted I have seen before they say it really helps. Might be a good one to try. But it takes time to stretch out muscles and such.

Ambergris, I could use your housekeeper, but I don't think she would like having to deal with Mr. mess up the house all the time. 

I am washing sheets from my bed this afternoon as it is pouring down rain and I can't do anything outside. I really need to start planting now. But as hard as it is raining now and suppose to be all day again. It will be to muddy again tomorrow to work out side. Hoping maybe the sun will be drying it out enough to plant tomorrow afternoon. Did I say I need a suntan anyway? So I will work in hot sun if that is what it takes to get my plants and seeds in ground. Weather is not cooperating. 

Got kitchen cleaned up and will be cleaning up den soon and mopping floors. Such a fun afternoon.

The cuy are so cute.  You are really doing well with all you are doing.  It must not by high humidity there for things to dehydrate so fast. Wish what I dehydrate would dry that fast.  Note to self, don't dehydrate onions in house.   

With all the rain we got yesterday it was too wet to plant anything today. Muddy mess. So hoping tomorrow after church I can plant tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, okra, watermelon, strawberries and blueberry bush which is one I bought to replace the one that had 3 trees growing into the roots of it. Couldn't get roots out so lost that bush.  I have more things to plant but need to figure out where I need to put what. I have herbs growing everywhere, so going to take some huge pots and bury them in ground about 3/4 of the way in. Then plant the herbs that take over the flower bed. That way I can control them.  Also need to fertilize the pomegranate bush and trim it up a bit. 

I just checked weather report. Rain all night and tomorrow so hopeful Monday if I can't do it tomorrow.

I am being careful with GS. He is calm right now as he wanted $60 from his rent money for gas and cigarettes. said the Marlboro menthol longs he smokes are $7 a pack. Told him to get a second job to support his bad habits. He's talking about getting a new pipe for his vaping when he gets paid. I know what he is doing. Trying to spend all his money so he can stay here after the end of May. Nope, not happening. He's going to be out of here even if it's on the street. So between smoking, vaping and pot it seems he might not be able to pay rent in a couple of months. But that's on him. I have tried and tried to teach him how to budget and he won't do it. He has been throwing his medical bills aside and not paying them. So he will learn when he is out on his own. And his parents can help him with money because he is breaking me. I have the blinds to fix that he bent up, the door is not fixable. It is a sliding closet door that is hollow inside and more like a plywood door I am guessing. Just one solid thin wood and is hollow. I can't believe he threw his phone because he got mad at it. I think he was mad because he couldn't find the rent money and threw something at the door. But he won't be getting into my room anymore. 

Ambergris, I would just move the food to other side of gate and see if the cat would be able to eat or lock the other cats up till that cat can eat. Cats are so funny and it is harder to train one to behave around one they don't like. 

Mt. Rider glad you had a great ride today. I'm sure it was a good day for it. And now I know why Euphrasyne needed a down day. Mt. Rider did you get your computer fixed long enough for you to find another one?

And I hope you get that sciatic nerve under control soon.

Euphrasyne,  That is so sweet of your DH to take care of the kids so you can rest and just enjoy doing nothing but relaxing. 

I cleaned my bedroom and bath and the kitchen today. Now I am to tired to go outside and work in garden. Maybe after church tomorrow If weather permits I can start planting. Someone told me it is to early yet, but I don't think so. I have plants I need to get in ground by end of next week.  

GS got up at 5 pm this afternoon and I told him we needed to talk. He got his feathers up and wanted to know why. Just said that we needed to talk some things over and get something to eat and then we'll talk.  So after he ate. I asked him when he gets paid and it is next Friday. So no money for a week.  I then told him that he was moving out by end of May and he said no it is July. Told him not anymore.  And then I took him into bedroom and showed him what he did to my closet door. He said he didn't do that and I told him yes he did because I was cleaning out flower bed right under his bedroom window and heard him throw something though I thought he hit the wall. He threw his phone at the closet door. Plus I told him why he did it. That he made a big mistake going in my bedroom and going through my dressers and nightstand looking for money before coming outside to ask me if I had any money.  Let him know my bedroom was off limits no matter what. So will see what happens. Hope he can save money because he isn't getting any money from me. It is ashame I ended up with a GS that is so destructive and just won't grow up. But it seems I'm not the only one. My neighbors across the street from me, let their daughter move back in with them but not her 18 year old son. Seems he got very nasty with them and used some pretty bad language on them. So he is not allowed to live there. So he had to go live with his father. Their daughter is mad about it and said she can't see him and misses him. She got told to go pick him up and take him out to dinner or something but he's not coming back to their house. 

I guess a lot of grandparents and parents are going through things like this. It's sad that there are parents that just don't raise their children like they should and that the schools don't teach them enough to learn anything. And the schools are getting much worse. 

Was going to start planting this morning but with the all day rain yesterday, everything is way to muddy.  Just walking across the grass this morning was slushy.  So will see how this afternoon turns out after it has had some sun on it.  Cleaned up and mopped kitchen floor behind GS.  And I went in his room to see how dirty he has gotten it and it is bad. He has also punched a small hole in the closet door.  So When he gets up, I will give him time to wake up good and then I am going to tell him to move out by end of May since his mother told him he would be able to move. He's not paying any of his bills other than the cell phone. And buying heavy on cig. and vape juice. He some money but not using it wisely. I think he said he got paid yesterday but that will be one of the first questions I ask him. I am going to tighten up on his misery. He didn't like finding me on couch at 1 am watching TV. But I didn't budge till he went to bed at 5:30 this morning. So I didn't get a lot of sleep. TV is on and going full blast. Not going to turn it down either. And since I can't do anything outside, I need to vacuum floors and clean bathrooms. So I will be very loud. It's not like he has to go to work this evening and he isn't helping me do anything again and hasn't turned his hands to do anything since he was fired a month ago. 

Virginia, Thank you for letting us know he's healing and doing well. 

Jeepers, it sounds like something is going bad in your computer.  I have lost things on my phone before but had all my numbers and important things written down in a notebook I keep. I started doing that when I first started prepping. Paper copies of everything. I want to get most of my pictures copied also. I could do that from my printer or just put on a photo stick and go to either Walmart or Walgreens to make copies of them. I know I can make copies at Walgreens but not sure if I can do it with a photo stick at Walmart. If I do it from my computer, I have plenty of photo paper for that.

Mt. Rider, many years ago my step daughter bought DH's ex to our house to steal anything she wanted. They had been divorced for 10 or 12 years and had no right into our house. But Step daughter was doing it because her mother wanting to keep trying to hurt DH and didn't like that he remarried after 10 or 12 years of being divorced.  I came home and caught her going through our stuff. She even took my silverware. It was mine before I even knew DH but she took it anyway. So DH put an outside type lock on door. You have to have a key to open it from outside the room but can be opened from inside room by turning the latch. I now have my room under lock and key. Though he never found his rent money nor my money. Very well hidden. He won't be able to get into my room now. 

Neighbor came over a while ago to get some herbs for their dinner tonight. glad to share as I am overflowing with some herbs. 

Mt. Rider I was thinking a snow plow but didn't know you were talking about moving snow off the steps. Or that is what I was thinking you meant. Maybe what Ambergris was saying depending on how the steps are configured. And the last thing you or your HD needs is to fall down icy steps. Be careful.

Snow blower might work much better. 

Termite man should be here between 9 and 12 am.  So stuck home till then. They called this morning. Usually they call and make an apt. but not this time. It is raining and they had a house that they needed to treat but can't do that in the rain. So coming out sometime this morning since they cancelled that other apt. That's fine as it will get that out of the way. 

Will just work on catching up house work. Washing clothes today since it is raining. Only have maybe 2 loads. Usually I do that on Monday's. But with working on garden and flower beds, I decided to do it today. Don't know if it will be to wet tomorrow to work outside yet. But might be since it is suppose to rain all day today. 

GS was 6 minutes late for work yesterday. He told them a lie and said he had to help me lift something heavy. Said he didn't want to tell them he overslept since he's on a 90 day training and just got the job last Thursday. Told him to get off the computer and go to bed at night and he wouldn't oversleep. He goes to bed at 6 am and gets up at 2:30 to get ready for work at 4 pm. 

He doesn't have any money till payday so he went through my room looking for money. Then found me in front yard and said he needed $20 for cigarettes. Told him I didn't have any cash on me and I just gave him $20 for gas. So he wanted it out of his rent money. I got it out for him and saw he had already been through my bedroom looking for that money. He never found it and is why he came out the front door looking for me.  Told him he already borrowed $40 from his rent money and that would make $60 he owes back in rent and $20 for me. Came home last night and gave me the $60 for the rent from a check he just cashed from his last job. Asked him where my $20 was he owed me and he tried to deny he owed me money. Reminded him about needing gas money to get to work and he says oh yea. So I took it out of his rent money and told him he owes $20 more to his rent. 

We will be having a heart to heart talk this weekend. Not even looking for an apartment. 

Yep,  See you later alligator.  After while crocodile.  And don't bite me.  

Becca Anne,  I really hope your work situation gets better soon. 

Picked up Rx this morning and then went to Dollar Tree for some shelf stable milk.  The Mcdonalds nursery is right next to the Dollar Tree so I went there and looked around. They are only there from spring to mid summer.  Bought a flat of marigolds, an aloe plant, watermelon plants, strawberry plants and 2 different types of potato plants. with what I bought yesterday and today, plus my seeds I should be set for planting. Though tomorrow is suppose to rain all day. 

Worked on front flower bed all day after getting back home. When the ground started moving up and down, I was like ok I have an active mole. Don't know if I killed it or not because I was using the hoe to dig out old roots from some bushes we took out a few years ago. I waited to see if the ground was going to move again but nothing happened and I didn't see the mole either. 

GS woke up late for work. Hope he made it in time. I'm not his keeper so he best start getting up when his alarm goes off instead of going back to sleep. 

Now I am tired and sore. Arm starting to hurt again. So going to take shower after a while and use the blue emu on my shoulder and arm.  Took a couple of advil for now.

Mt. Rider that was ha huge haul. But I haven't use the big garden area since 2019. The grass and stuff had grown back in it. So had to do some serious tilling and cleaning up to get it ready. It was a lot of work but well worth it. 

I have loads of canning jars. So I am set. And I bought the 1/2 gal. jars went I went to Taylors hardware. They are cheaper than the grocery store there. 

Miki, I am so glad that Peanut Butter's legs have stopped shaking. Praying that that is the start of healing.

Mine is a heavy duty black one. But similar to the yellow one you have.  I think I bought it from a Supply place. I will try to find the store I bought it from and post it.

Thanks Mt. Rider that looks really good. Will have to try that.

I have seen those Lavario washers also. I saw a long time ago a mop bucket with a ringer on it. I got one. the bucket is heavy plastic. It was on a prepper site a few years ago.  They demonstrated using it for clothes instead of mopping floors. They washed sheets and clothes and put in the wringer and it rang out the clothes pretty good. I have the plunger also.

Remember the 5 second rule?

After coming home from the feed and seed store and empting the car, I went to Taylors hardware and they had 2 bags of bone meal left. Don't know what is going on with that so I bought both bags. I only use one when planting so that puts me ahead for next year. 

It looked like it was going to start raining, so I vacuumed out the car and cleaned all the pollen off where you can't get to it just washing the car. So a bit of detailing. 

Bought some straw to put between rows of the big garden. He said I will have wheat this winter as it will come up in places. Now I don't know if I want to put it between rows. I might have to rethink that one.

I agree with with Jeepers, Pick it up put it in colander, rinse it off good and heat back up and start again.

Jeepers, I know around here copper is high priced but I have to find an outlet to sell it.  The other stuff that I can't sell for natural gas I will give to DH's friend if he ever comes. Otherwise I might just try to sell it in a yard sell. But it would have to be someone that knows what to do with it. So that is iffie to get rid of. 

MidnightMom,  That just might work. I will do that. Thank you.

Mt. Rider, I am so glad this doctor is working out for you.   she will get you straight. 

Went to Feed and Seed today.   Bought a lot of stuff.  2- 40lb bags of cow manure, fertilizer, plant food, veggie. plants, a blueberry bush to replace the one I had to dig up because I couldn't get the 3 wild trees that grew into it. Lemon drop plants, seeds and a few more items.   I am all set now to start planting. 

Will be working in garden in a little bit.  Need to head up street to Taylors hardware and garden to see if they have any bone meal. Feed & seed said they had not been able to get any. Just hope they have some. If so I will get 2 or 3 bags as I don't know what is going on with that.    I also got some rabbit deterrent. Hope it works.  Still need to make a trip to Lowe's.  No rain so far. I think the weather report has changed. But it is coming and I want to get my seeds planted before the rain starts.