The good news is, my gardens are loving this weather! My sweet peas have jumped 2 feet in the last week, they are now taller than I am! And, after replanting 5 times, my cucumbers and melons are finally growing. I got some egyptian walking onions from my grandfather and got them planted in a barrel. The potatoes are tall enough I was able to mulch them, and my black raspberry patch is just covered in little green berries.
Although, after what happened with my strawberry patch, I'm tempted to post an armed guard at the raspberries. Dad waited until the first couple of strawberries had ripened, then ripped out half the patch and sprayed poisons on the other half. This is the 5th year in a row that he has destroyed large parts of the patch just as they started to ripen, but the poisons are a new trick. Well, actually, maybe not such a new trick, he did that once right after I served a wild salad from the back yard. I swear he does this deliberately! I have GOT to get out of this house!!!
Oh, look, the rain just started!
Yesterday I was taking a walk on my lunch break and found some mulberry trees just laden with fruit. I managed to pick about a cup of them before the mosquitoes chased me away. Monday I'm packing bug spray. I love mulberries. Mulberries are good. I'm trying to get a whole grove of them established on my land.
Things at work are going both very well and very badly. I like my job, I'm a QA person at a call center. All I have to do is listen to calls and grade people on how well they followed the rules. For that, I'm getting paid pretty well. In some ways it's the easiest job on the floor, but it does require being immune to bribes, pouting, begging, and other forms of coercion. Lots of people trying to get me to change their scores lately. Fortunately, when someone tries to take it up with upper management, they back me up. It's nice having a boss who trusts my judgement.
However, I know how to read a financial statement and I've studied how and why businesses fail. My employer will be bankrupt within 3 to 5 years because the CFO is doing a pump-and-dump, but there's no one I can tell who would be able to change it. So, I'm starting to look for another job. Getting my voice back gives me more options than I had before, so that alone is a relief.
Speaking of my employer, we got hit by the storm Wednesday morning. Part of the wall of the women's bathroom on my floor was scattered across the roof of the cafeteria. I'd post pictures but I can't seem to get them off my phone and onto the PC. It was surreal working that day!
Thanks for the update. I do hope you can get a place of your own. I don’t understand why anyone would do that to a strawberry patch.
I hope you find a great new job with a really healthy company.