And I have had no time to just sit and write, to keep you caught up. We have worked 10 hour days M-F and most Saturdays, some Sundays, for so long even my garden misses me. And yes, it is still producing! Even with the cold temps, it just keeps going. Granted, it doesn't look as green and pretty as it did all summer but there are still a boatload of tomatoes on both plants, a few cucumbers and squash as well and I haven't yet checked to see how the potatoes are doing under all those mounds of dirt and straw.
I have taken quite a few pictures since I last shared and given the hour I may well just post them instead of my usually long diatribe. Today started out cold and creepy: and the pictures won't load right now, dang wifi. It was very London like, foggy as all get out, you couldn't see very far and I could see my breath.
It did warm up a bit later as I went off to Home Depot to get one of those hooks that you can take off without doing damage to the wall and some little eye hooks to make a chime, which I never got around to today. I found this amazing painting at Goodwill yesterday for 5 bucks and I just loved it and want to look at her alot so I did hang it in my room when I got home.
Coming back through town I saw they were still doing the "Art on the Rogue" and had a few blocks that were closed as all these artists were on the ground making the most lovely artwork with chalk. I took a lot of pictures there as well and when I am able to post them I will, it was interesting and awe inspiring really.
We have had the past couple of Saturdays off, working the Sundays put us over the limit on the hours they can "make" us work, so I have been over to the coast a couple of times, the last time was last weekend and yesterday I went over the hill in the other direction to seven Feathers casino for the day. I was down about 80 dollars when I hit one jackpot for 238 and another for 73 so I took myself to lunch at the buffet, which was only 5 bucks with my club card and a dining credit I got from the kiosk when I had arrived. Had a wonderful breakfast really as I chose the scrambled eggs, hash browns and sausage links and I even had some chow fat (Chinese) because it looked good. It was.
I played for another hour before leaving, still had my jackpots money on me, and came back, did a little shopping and took the truck in for a transmission flush since they had told me the day before it was bad. I had gone in Friday after work to get an oil change, which they did, but they found all this stuff wrong so I got brake lights, cargo lights, air filter, the oil change with some flush thing they do and an oil treatment added and I was told that it needs about four other things done to it and I said later since the 130 bucks Friday was out of my pocket. But since I had won, I went and spent another 130 for the transmission flush and refill because I don't want to end up stranded as I was a few weeks ago when the battery went dead and I had to get a new one of those. I really had no intention of spending a chunk of money on his truck to use it but I need it to run to use it. And now there is a short in the wiring in the dashboard so only half of it (the vital half granted does work) doesn't work. Great.
I am really not enjoying the cold at all and I am ready to head back to my island. I give myself a month before I tuck tail and run back to warmth and fewer clothes. I am constantly made fun of for all the layers I wear everyday and my big pea coat and I am tired of that, too. They can say they are kidding all they want but when you say I am only kidding the words were already past your brain and out of your mouth and you meant what you said. I think it is ugly to make fun of anybody for any reason and the ignorance is astounding here.
I still enjoy the work mostly and I tune everyone out and just do my solder thing but I still have to listen to the crap every morning when I arrive. I am not really digging the getting up at 3:30 in the dark of morning either. Heck, when we go to first break at 7 it is still not light out. Yes, I enjoyed it being lighter later during the summer but the opposite is not as lovely.
It is nearly 6 so I should wrap this up for tonight since I still have to clean the kitchen and put my dinners away before I get ready for bed. But I will try to get back in tomorrow since Bev is gone for the next week, in Hawaii, so I can relax a bit while she is gone.
