South side fence is up, YA!!!!!

Good Evening Everyone,
I hope all of you had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend, and I hope everyone took time to reflect why we have the day.

Saturday, we started early and put the fence up. It was going to get hot and very windy, so we started in.  We brought in the red beast dually and stretched the fence out and then tied everything up and we are pleased with it.  The only difference is:  Its painted with green treatment paint instead of red.  We could not find the red cribbing fence, so we had to resort to the green.  I can live with it, as long as it keeps out the pests. D set the post for the gate first, then stretched the fencing, and time wise, it took about 3 hours.  By the time we were done, we were exhausted, hot, cranky, but pleased it is up. Sunday, I was up very early, and planted my summer and winter squash on this side, where they can ramble around, I also put my melons clear up to the front (west) end, and they can ramble around up there without worries about anything trampling on them. I moved my ghetto buckets of Egyptian onions to this side also.  I will plant a few other things here as the summer progresses.

I will post later in the week and show more of the garden area.
Till then, everyone have a wonderful week.
Hugs

I am not flying with ToTo this Morning

Good Morning Everyone,

Well, we made the national news.  We had some very wild weather that developed VERY quickly last night.  I was watching the weather on the computer, which I do, and these super cells developed  in a matter of minuites and made their way right to our door literally.  The wind came up, had small hail, and the light show of lightening.
And along with that, we had a tornado that touched down just a block from us here.  It made its way from the lake south of us and then hit Bailey Yards, which is the Union Pacific RailRoad main lines. My home is one block from Bailey Yards.   It tossed about 15 cars around, hit some homes and did it general destruction.  I went out and seen the clouds start to dip and swirl, and start forming.  But, we have no place to go, so we just stood by to get into the heavy pickup and pray that if it did hit, we would bounce around,  but  my animals would be in the path and die,  and the house destroyed.
We did not get any damage here at my house, the winds were fierce.  And debris was flying around, the only solace was the fact this storm was moving at over 60 miles an hour right straight north and it was outside the city limits within minuites, but that is all it takes...a minuite or so to destroy everything.
So, this morning, I am giving blessings that everything was spared.  There was some damage to some homes that were in the path , and the weather service wil be out this morning to access the damage and the rating that this storm had. Ratings are the EF ratings, from 1-5 measuring the wind speeds inside these power houses of nature.  We will know more in a few days what EF rating this one had.

In my last post, I mentioned that I was "working".  Well, technichnally, not "working" a job, but handling mounds of paperwork on my parents affairs and D's.  It feels like I am working back at the bank and insurance companies I used to work for many years ago.  It has been mind boggling.  I do know, that I could not handle a job anyway, too many to run after, and there isn't work here anyway, especially for disabled morons like me. But anyway, I just wanted to clarify that I'm not working outside the house.

I have got some seedling up, some tomatoes, and leeks, and a few peppers.  I have been so pleased with the cheap heat mats and covered greenhouses that I got.  These really help with the tomatoes and peppers and other heat loving seeds.  So, currently, I am pleased.  I have never been able to keep tomatoes going until after it warms up totally, usually in June, and by then, its almost too late to get tomatoes going because of the weather and the growing seasons.

I have some photos and some more for posts, so I will post these later.
Right now, I need to get going this morning.  I have a doctor's appointment later and some errands and I will touch base with everyone later.
Everyone, please have a wonderful Monday, I know I am thankful.

Hugs

Absent

I apologise for my absence.  I have had several family, medical  and legal issues that I have had to attend to.  I am working on some posts and photos of plants waking up and  coming alive.  But my family issues come first and foremost.  There is only me.  I have started working, then get home, and be totally exhausted and brain dead, until I couldn't think.  It has started to slow down, issues being resolved and getting back on track.

Sunday, we got about a half inch of cold rain.  It was very chilly. about 48* F.  Monday, it warmed right into the mid 70's and yesterday, we broke a record of 78*F. Wow.  Toward the weekend, close to 80*. Double WOW.

I am working on some posts, and photos of plants.  I have started some heirloom tomatoes. Some Amish Paste, and Stupice.  I also have some Mortgage Lifters.  I am hoping with the heated seed mats, I can have better luck.  I also have some Jalapenos started, they are up and I hope that I can keep them up.

Other than that.it is very boring, and very uneventful here, which I guess is ok.  I just do not have a lot going on at the moment with all of the other things that were going on.  It seems the days just blended together.  As it gets warmer, I am hoping to do more with the garden.

D and I are planning on laying out fencing on my south side, so I can extend the garden.  I found someone to help me to stretch the fence and lay posts in.  D is currently down with spine problems which put him down in bed for about a week, so I am going to tackle little bits at a time.  I just need help stretching the fence and getting everything wired up. 

Well, I need to run some errands, and work on posts later today or tonight.  I will get back later to all of you.

Hugs

An un-nerving few weeks

Good Morning everyone,

I hope that all of you are OK, if I have readers from the south, I pray you are OK and getting through the turmoil of storms.  My heart goes to the south for the devastating destruction it has left.

I apologise for the lengthy away time I was.  But I had a very un-nerving and then anger filled few weeks.
I will not go into great detail about this little bru-ha-ha, but the trashy neighbors who are to the south of me accused me of graffiti on the back of the crappy trailer they live in.  The accusations flew, the cops called, evidence checked, and then as quickly as the finger pointing came, everything went.  OH yes, these people also accused me of window peeking.

This happened sometime between last Tuesday night or very early Wednesday morning, the words "move" was spray painted on the back of the trailer.  Now I will tell you, that yes, I was inquiring about these people, and I was told that the man who suddenly moved in with this woman was very violent, which he is, as I had seen him punch this woman down the stairs and the screaming that comes from this trailer.  But, unfortunately, living in a shit hole town such as this place, if you even want to call it a town, if you ask anything, eventually it will get around. 

I am sure that these people have baggage that they moved with from their previous digs.  I was told that they were evicted from the last residence for non payment and the violence.  I also learned another larger lesson..don't ask about things and be careful WHO you ask.  Since this 3 groups of people who have moved into this area came, we have had nothing but people coming and going and strange things going on in the air and around the neighborhood.

I was so very angry about this, and I was angry as I had a cop here, which when we do have them, they treat you like the trailer park trash they think you are.  This cop was brash, and condescending.  I told him, that I am not exactly well, and have other things to do besides paint things on wall, and peek into windows.
The other thing that angered me was the owner was right along blaming me for all of the social ills that he puts here.  So I did go to his place of business and lit into the middle of them and told them to leave me alone and to step up to the plate and YOU be responsible for what you put over here, and that they were not going to pin the crap onto me.  I then had to go and talk to my attorney, which I cannot afford, and discuss my options and at the moment, we are just sitting and seeing what will come about, which is all I can do at the moment.

Then the old, " I can't have a garden or flowers" bit came up again, as this trailer park trash have kids that are allergic to bees, and I told the owner to shove it.  Bees and bugs are in the environment and I can't control the world or the bugs so I told him to tell these people to get a life, if they even know what that is and then mentioned I had council with my attorney and whether he wanted to press on with the attorney, which he backed off and said he hates attorneys and shut up from there.

I wish I could move, but it costs a fortune to move.  I was pondering selling the modular back to the owner, but currently, I am not in a position to do so, so I have just concluded that I will with draw into my home, I moved my garden area to the north side, brought my blue buckets around and will pull them into my garden area, and just take it one day at a time.
I recalled another blogging friend, who I will mention, FlowerLady from FlowerLady's Musings had something similar to my dilemma, the shitty neighbors and the trash that seems to walk upon the urban areas now.  We are seeing this now here where I live as it seems since the news had been mentioning that the middle states are doing better than other parts of the country because of the economy, we are now seeing all manor of  people, all colors, coming here to live, thinking we have jobs and places to live, which is far from the truth. Along with this urban crap that is moving into the area, they bring their urban problems and social  issues which we are not really prepared to deal with here. Issues with color and cultures. When people move here, they cannot deal with the idea that there is nothing to do here. We have no anything to go to or clubs or night life that they had before.   This is a very low paying state, which you will find part time work, IF you can find work, and way below minimum wage and I mean way below, most pay is around anywhere from $4 an hour to $6 and that's it.  And maybe 15-20 hrs a week if you are lucky.  And forget about housing, its not here, except places like where I live, where I would not let a dog live in some of the places this owner has to rent out.  And on top, he charges $600 a month for the dumps to boot.

So,  I have been extremely depressed, and almost afraid to go out, worrying that if something else happens, I will be the first to get nailed because I am the target.  I am amazed that I, who mind my own business, am now the enemy of this place who lives among drug dealers and general shit of the lower population.
So, I have been trying to work inside, I am getting ready to paint some rooms and just general fix up so just in case, IF I decide to sell my investment of the modular back to the idiot owner, I can, and be done with it.  But at the moment, I am holding my ground.

Currently, I put in my berry canes, in small containers to see if they grow.  I put my dwarf blueberry's in the larger containers and will see how they do.  I will try to get onions in some containers, and I haven't even started on the area for my tomatoes and cucumbers yet.  We had a beautiful day yesterday, into the low 70's but this morning, it is chilly and very windy.  Personally, I have not felt like gardening at all now.  I have lost my desire to garden, period. Funny how quickly everything turns to ca-ca.

Well,  I think that I have pissed and moaned enough, so I will take leave and wish all of you a wonderful gardening weekend, and we will try to post later.

Hugs

Welcome Spring

Good Afternoon friends,

I hope that all are enjoying some type of spring activity, whether gardening, or cleaning something up around the home.
I have been out and I am finding some green around the place coming up, I'm shocked that some things have survived the cold as I didn't do a good job of mulching but everything seems to be doing its thing and starting to show some glorious green color, but it is not enough to get decent photos of for you.

I just wanted to let everyone know that I was having some big problems with my blog and gmail account.  A few weeks ago, I ran some items on Craigslist to get rid of in my area, and then all of the sudden, I started getting email from Craigslist that someone outside the US was accessing my Craigslist account and posting all sorts of crap all over.  I was getting very vulgar email from people I didn't know chewing on me  about posting on their account, and soon it got out of control, so I deleted my gmail account, but somehow, it deleted my blog account also.  I spent most of Friday and Saturday, on and off, trying to find my blog, and recover it.  I would stop a bit as I would get frustrated, and po'd and then start over.  Finally after supper, I was able, I think to recover everything.

So If you notice something off with the blog, please let me know.  I show my ignorance with blogging and computers and technical stuff, and get somewhat very frustrated with things when I do not understand.  I was worried that with some idiot getting my craigslist account, that they would be doing some illegal, demented stuff, and then I would have the NSA and the CIA and what ever else government entity  on my door because of some jerks posting off in some foreign land.  So I stopped it as I could do it, and hopefully not have anymore problems, second, I will never use Craigslist every again, that is final.

So, other than that, I am going to try to get outside this afternoon to see what I can do, maybe try to move some stuff if it still isn't encased in ice yet,  I will try to start some new seeds, some of the seeds I started were no good from my old stash, so I will chuck those.  I started seeds from some of my blogging friends and they are doing very well.  I don't want to get too much ahead of the weather, even though its getting warm, we still get cold, wet, snowy weather and just one of those will take out your garden and all of your work out in an instant, so I'm trying not to get too excited.

I will also try to find something interesting to take photos of, I do not have much coming up at the moment, but I am sure very soon, I will.

Well, everyone, I will take leave of you and I think that I will head out for a little bit, and enjoy the warmth, I have the windows open in the house, and the cats are running around and bouncing off of the walls at the moment. I wish I had their energy.

Have a great weekend and upcoming week.
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