Thursday, June 27, 2024
Thursday Thirteen
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Hate Crime Update
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
The Hatred Among Us
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Sunday Stealing
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Saturday, June 22, 2024
Saturday 9: I'll Never Get Out
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Thursday Thirteen #865
Today is my mother's birthday. She would have been 80 years old today. Here are 13 things about her.
My mother as a young girl. |
1. She was madly, fiercely, and desperately in love with my father.
2. By the numbers: She had her first child when she was 18 (that would be me) and her second (my brother) when she was 21. Mom was 38 years old when I married. She retired in her late 40s (I can't remember exactly how old she was), and she passed away at the age of 56 from pancreatic cancer. I was 37 when she died and my brother was 34.
My mother bringing home my brother. |
3. Mom could sew well and up until I was old enough to pitch a fit and ask for store-bought clothing, she made most of my clothes.
4. She followed my father to live on a farm that was adjacent to the property on which her father grew up. She diligently canned green beans, helped kill and pluck feathers from chickens, and kept a fire burning for heat, all while working a 40-hour week job that was a 45-minute drive away from home and taking care of her husband and two children.
5. Mom had a button box that was full of glittery things that I liked to play with. It wasn't a box, actually. It was a metal fruitcake tin. But it certainly had a lot of buttons in it. I wonder what happened to it.
6. She could be very creative with arts and crafts. She painted small houses to use for Christmas decor and made mushrooms out of some kind of plaster that she painted up nice.
8. She was always well-dressed and her hair perfectly coiffed. She wore her hair the same way all of her life.
9. She was pretty in a traditional way, though she had freckles and she disliked those immensely. My paternal grandfather used to call her "Liz" because he said she reminded him of Elizabeth Taylor.
Does she look like Liz Taylor? |
11. She was not afraid of mice. Once during a party, a mouse strode out into the kitchen and Mom took off her shoe, whapped the mouse dead, and then scooped it up with some paper and tossed it outside.
12. She had a decent singing voice but never really got the hang of playing an instrument. She could accompany herself a bit on the organ, though.
This is the way I remember her. |
13. She was loyal to her friends and family.
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
He Did What He Said
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
And Now This!
So then yesterday it simply stopped cooling. The man came out just at 5 p.m. and started talking about what he was charging me for, and I informed him very quickly that the thing was under warranty, and he wasn't charging me a darned thing. He wanted to argue with me about it until I showed him the paperwork from where I bought it last year.
Monday, June 17, 2024
Not the Uber Driver
This year, we are making hay on someone else's property, which means driving equipment six miles to its destination.
This requires multiple trips, with my husband driving a tractor over to the property while hauling a piece of equipment. Then I have to ferry him back so he can get another tractor and another piece of equipment.
It is also important that I go in front or behind him (whichever he requests) with my hazard lights flashing to keep traffic from hitting him.
He finished up the haymaking and this morning we went after the equipment. He drove the dump truck with a trailer over there so he could load the last of the hay, and I followed. He dropped the dump truck and trailer off where he had hay stacked, and then I drove him up to the landowner's shop space where he had a tractor with the equipment my husband needed to load the hay.
There I was to wait on him so I could then follow him and the dump truck home, and then bring him back so he could get another tractor and drive it home.
Yes, it was as complicated as it sounds.
Anyway, during the first part of the delivery and waiting process, I needed to turn the car around. I started backing it up, using the backup camera on the car, and then suddenly, "WHAM."
"What the f*ck did I hit," I wondered aloud. It stopped me dead, whatever it was. I pulled up a bit and looked in the backup camera. All I saw was what looked like gravel.
I got out and saw that there was actually a stump covered with gravel in the middle of this area. This was a flat, graveled area, part of a shop and machine storage place on this landowner's property, that shouldn't have a stump in the middle of it.
It most definitely should not have a stump covered mostly with gravel that looks nearly invisible on the backup camera of a car.
The landowner was nearby but apparently did not hear my collision. I couldn't see anything wrong with the car, so I turned it around and waited for my husband to return on a tractor (also belonging to the landowner - he let us borrow it because we have a tractor out of service).
I told him what I'd done and confessed to backing into the stump. Husband looked but couldn't see anything wrong, so we determined I'd probably hit the stump with the car tire.
He also told me that he and his helper had nearly hit the camouflaged stump while they were over there working. "I couldn't have said anything if it had done damage," hubby said. "It's a bad place for a stump."
It's stuff like that that makes me glad I'm not an Uber driver. Sheesh.
Sunday, June 16, 2024
Sunday Stealing
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Saturday, June 15, 2024
Saturday 9: Wait Till You See Him
Friday, June 14, 2024
Vengeance and Vandalism
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Thursday Thirteen
1. I took the recycling to the recycling dumpsters early this morning, before the heat came, and saw that the plastic dumpster, at least, was compromised. Someone had tossed heavy plastic shelving in the bins. We can only recycle items with "1" or "2" in the little recycling logo on the bottom of things. Heavy plastic shelving doesn't fall in that category.
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Rural Living v. Farming
Sunday, June 09, 2024
Sunday Stealing
2. Can you curl your tongue?
3. Can you wiggle your ears?
4. Did you ever participate in a talent show?
5. Do you have any piercings or tattoos?
6. Do you prefer Mac or PC?
7. Do you still have your wisdom teeth?
9. Have you ever been hospitalized?
10. Have you had braces?
11. Were you ever a Girl or Boy Scout? (Or a brownie)
12. What is one food you refuse to eat?
13. What's the most expensive item of clothing that you own?
14. What's your favorite foreign food?
15. Who's your favorite fictional character?
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