What Season is THIS?

 Over the weekend it was in the 90's.

Monday was 78.

Tuesday - back to high 80's.

Friday they are predicting the 60's!!!!

FLORIDA!

PICK A SEASON!!!!!

The garden doesn't seem to be suffering though.

(Kyle is... he's building our new cattle facility

and it was supposed to be nice and cool this week!

HA!)

Slenderette green beans

(with a couple tomatoes at the end of the bed...)

And a bed of lavender behind that.

The slenderettes are covered in flowers and even some

little tiny baby beans! YEA!!!

The flower garden is full of zinnias of all different colors.

And some volunteer sunflowers that are getting 

REALLY tall!

Look Dad!

Carrots!!!

These are a 55 day variety.

It's already been 65 and they "might" be ready to harvest

in another ... 60? LOL

Clearly we don't have the carrot gene.

The rattlesnake beans are doing a good job of climbing

their cattle panel trellis. They have flowers too...

This is a row of mish mash.

There are purple potatoes,

some okra and then Kyle planted some

corn just for fun.

(he is weeding the squash bed...)

The lettuce has bolted, but I just feed it to the rabbits anyway.

The rest of that bed is another jumble of stuff.

Zucchini, yellow squash, watermelon, spaghetti squash.

We'll leave the hardiest, heathiest and pull the rest.

Oh, and cucumbers and sweet potatoes to climb the trellis,

but they aren't doing stellar.

Anyhow.

There's your garden update.

And now I need to make breakfast,

do my CFM study and get ready for work.

I'm still covering for Denine while she has the flu.

Late

 My post is late today...

I tried to get on this morning but the whole world was down!

I couldn't get into my bank,

my blog,

my zoom account,

NOTHING!

But about then, I got a phone call from my

co-worker at the Town.

She just got tested positive for the flu and

could I cover for her?

I had a full day planned...

So Kyle and I jumped in the car and headed

up to Cocoa (30 miles north) to deliver

some decals Rod made for our one remaining

client who just won't accept we are closed.

(grin)

He turns EIGHTY next week!

And then we came back to town and went to

Northern Tool for a couple of things Kyle

needed for his trailer and then to Tractor 

Supply (basically across the street) for some

beet pulp pellets for the big animals and some

Simple Green and some grease for Kyle.

Then to WalMart to pick up a few things I forgot

when I was there over the weekend.

(And some things Kyle needed...)

And then we headed to the house (2:45) and

popped a frozen pizza in the oven.

While that was cooking, I jumped in my truck

and headed to the feed store and got a roll of

hay and then down to Town Hall to make sure

the building official had his inspections lined

up for this afternoon.

Home to eat a piece of pizza and then out

into the pasture to put out the hay for the boys.

And then I sat down to read for a bit.

And probably took a little nap.

No pictures today.

Even though I spent some time in the garden.

The beans are looking AMAZING!

We even have some little baby beans on the

Slenderette green beans.

The rattlesnake beans are climbing the trellis

and looking really good.

We even have some baby corn plants Kyle

stuck in the garden just for fun.

I'll try to remember to take a picture before

I head into the town in the morning.

But for now, Rod is home, so I'm heading

back into the living room to visit with him.

Typical Monday.

HA!

Wow

 These weeks when I teach every day are BUSY!

And unfortunately I just found out I'm 

scheduled to teach the week I'm in Tucson.

And nobody will trade with me.

It will be ok though,

because the time difference is 3 hours.

I will need to teach from 3 - 7 on Monday and

Wednesday afternoons.

And from 4-6 on Tuesday.

But I don't have to do anything on

Thursday, Friday, Sat or Sun when

the whole family is together!!!

I figure by Monday, we'll be ready for 

everybody to take a good long afternoon nap.

So I'll lock myself in a bedroom somewhere and work.

LOL.

(This is me making the best of a situation...)

Anyhow.

Its has been a BUSY week.

I had planned to spend yesterday catching up on

everything I let slide during the past week(s).

But ended up going on a job with Kyle instead.

It was a medium sized job.

They have a large yard(?), about 2 acres.

Most of it was cleared, but there were random clumps

that were originally just a palm tree but grew up around

it with vines and palmettos and pepper trees and junk.

So he took all that down and cleaned it up.

They also had this pond that was completely surrounded

you couldn't even tell where the edges were.

He cleaned that all up and they were surprised

(and pleased) to see they have a couple of beaches!

And lots more land they didn't know they had.

They thought the pond was MUCH bigger.

Now they just have to get their little boat out there

and clean out all the cat tails.

It took 4 hours.

I stood out there and talked with the woman.

A new move-in to the other ward.

She has no friends and her husband is in the

Reserves and currently in Colorado.

So she was LONELY.

So we talked.

For 4 hours.

I was EXHAUSTED when we got home!

LOL.

(And then I had to teach last night til 10...)

I'm teaching again tonight.

And then I'm done for the month except for my

usual Tuesday and Thursday nights, but those

are only 2 hours and no big deal.

But now I have to run to do the shopping.

And return some shirts I bought.

And then come home and cook food for my

poor husband.

Pickin's were slim last week.

Have a GREAT WEEKEND!

The Count Down has begun!!!

English Muffins

 I finished up making my English Muffins yesterday.

I used some sprouted whole wheat flour

with some added vital wheat gluten.

I made a dozen this time, but some were

already in the pan...

(I love my kitchen tea-towel!)

They cook in a frying pan instead of the oven.

(A pot of lentil stew in the background.)

And the finished product.

They are...

whole wheat.

I think I like the white flour ones better,

although these are healthier...

This morning I made a McMuffin using regular

deli ham (because I ran out of Canadian Bacon)

and it was good...

I had a full day at the office and just finished

teaching my Tuesday evening Orientation.

And now I'm going to read my book for a bit

and then head off to bed.

Nite!

Monday, Monday

 I feel like I didn't do anything over the weekend.

But actually we were fairly busy.

Saturday was CHILLY!

And we had our annual Town Spring Fest.

Our town manager took a picture of our booth for us.

Kyle brought his machine down and we

talked to lots of folks,

gave out a bunch of cards.

We interrupt this post for a quick rescue run...

******************

I'm back.

Kyle is out doing a job for the Town - mulching

a property line.

And he ran into some fence and it got wrapped

up around his mulcher head.

He called me to run to Lowe's and get him

a set of bolt cutters.

Once I got there, I found them and them called

him on a video chat so he could make sure I

got what he needed.

But by then another crew was out cutting

some trees and they had an angle grinder...

so they helped him out.

Whew!

I picked up a gallon of fish emulsion I needed

and now I'm back.

So....

Anyhow.

Saturday was the Springfest.

Then he and Rod went out to do a quote on a job

and then picked up all the boards and posts Kyle

needs to finish up our cattle facility this week.

Sunday was Branch Conference at a little town

2 hours away, so Rod and I drove over there in his

little car so I could meet with their Primary Presidency.

Nice little branch.

AND they provided us lunch!

So that was nice.

Sunday afternoon (after we drove home) I took a NAP.

Rod and Kyle did... something... I was sleeping.

This morning I got up and had a gazillion things

on my list to do today.

I'm making a dent.

1. Laundry.

2. Make a load of egg salad.

3. Hard boil the duck eggs for the dogs.

4. Get some dough started for some English Muffins.

5. Roast the last of the potatoes and make breakfast bowls for Rod.

6. Thaw some sausage and make a mess of lentil stew for Rod.

7. Another load of laundry.

8. Weed a bunch of decals for a client.

9. Get the English Muffins made.

10. Get ready to teach a review at 5:30.

So the laundry is about half done.

I made the egg salad.

I hard boiled and peeled the duck eggs.(A PAIN in the neck!)

The bread dough is started.

Luckily I hadn't started making the muffins when 

Kyle called cuz it's not a process you can interrupt.

They are on the counter, formed and rising now for 20 minutes.

So I'd better type faster.

The lentil stew is just finishing up.

I'm letting it simmer for a bit longer to dry it out

a little bit more.

Rod doesn't like "wet" lunches.

They sometimes leak in his lunch box and

NOBODY needs THAT nonsense!

Lentil / sweet potato / sausage stew.

(earlier in the process...)

HELP!

I got eggs in my eyes!

Hahahaha

Breakfast bowls are all done.

It's roasted potatoes with scrambled eggs and 

bacon and cheese on the top.

Quick and easy "grab and go" kind of breakfast.

I didn't get very many of the decals weeded yet,

but I'll work on them a little later.

If I have time.

First I need to eat something.

It's 4:00.

I've had a slice of banana bread.

Oops.

Oh yeah,

yesterday I made some banana bread.

First in a LONG time.

Right out of the oven.

It must be good because there is only one slice left.

Ok, the dinger went off.

Time to go finish the English Muffins!

Whew!

Not Much

 There's not much to tell

other than I have been super busy this week.

Between working at the Town

and teaching Zoom every day...

Kyle's truck is in the shop getting a new

transmission. They wanted him to come

pick it up today, load up his tractor and

bring it back so they could so some tests,

but they road tested it and decided it needed

heavier springs anyway, so they ordered them

and hopefully will be able to finish up tomorrow.

He is scheduled to bring his Tractor to our town

"Springfest" in the park on Saturday morning.

It will be a bit challenging to get it there 

without his truck.

Although Rod said my truck can pull it...

And he could always just drive it over...

it's less than a mile.

But hopefully he will have his truck with a

brand new transmission

and it will all be moot anyway.

Just a little reminder.

Regardless of what is going on...

it never hurts to laugh.

BooBoo

 Kyle has been working on the gates.

And the other day he accidentally

CRUSHED his finger under one.

Turns out they are HEAVY!

It has been quite painful.

But is  S L O W L Y  getting better.

He's awfully glad.

It kept him awake all night!

He had BIG plans for this week.

He was going to work on his tractor.

Clean it up,

sharpen the teeth...

that sort of thing.

Because his truck is getting a transmission rebuild.

So he can't go anywhere.

(Well, he still has a car...)

But his finger was so sore!

Just thinking about bumping it wasn't fun.

Today it is feeling better.

He painted the gates a BRIGHT 

"safety yellow".

I forgot to take a picture.

I'll try to get one tomorrow.

(The battery is charging on my phone...)

Poor guy!