Boy-child spent the night at his paternal great aunt’s house, so, when sister left for work, went out to finish up what couldn’t get done last night for the heat. Moved three daylily seedlings, Magic of Oz, and Sun Silk. Put out all the remaining mulch. (The poor tree peony seems to be suffering in its new location [sad face], so layered it well.) Watered. Looks like we might have some cucumbers if I keep the water flowing. Yippers! Three of the Velvet Queen sunflowers are every bit of 7 feet high. Wowsers. The first flower open is still yellow, hoping it will deepen to that lovely caramel-red. Still don’t know where the two maroon and cream lilies came from, but I like them. :-)
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Two next new days. Heat not so bad today, going to try pulling some tree seedlings. The ATP tip on using pliers was great!
Blondy was supposed to come by to see Buddha Boy Friday. Did she? Three guesses and the first two don’t count…sad sigh…
Letting boy-child go to other great aunt's was a mistake. Too soon after Mom left and he doesn't know that side well at all. Separation anxiety has been a problem since he got back that is just easing today. He will be staying here for quite awhile before I let him be taken off again.
Shortie went to girlfriend’s last night, and was supposed to be home last night. Sister is picking up Shortie and boyfriend today to help move furniture to storage unit. Shows up at 7:00 this morning with boyfriend in tow and they are both asleep on the couch. He snores—loudly. :-/
Using heavy square-legged metal dining chairs as child gates works really well…as long as one is able to avoid repeated sudden and forceful contact of one’s shins and knees with said square metal legs. Which one has be unable to do to this point—today’s count is 14 bruises in various stages of color on forearms, knees, shins, and top of left foot.
Sister picked up Shortie and BF around 9:30 (they were still asleep, of course). So they go move the stuff, come back here by 11:00, were back asleep by Noon and have been sleeping/eating/sleeping ever since (it is 5:19PM now), and, of course, leaving the television on. He is still snoring—loudly. GRRRRRRRRR
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New day. Have a metal Red Green Live PBS campfire cup that simply wouldn’t sell when I was listing ever’thin in the cabinets. Good thing, I am thinking, because this boy child thinks it is the neatest toy since the dog’s tail!
Shortie is shoving her daughter off on the child’s father for the weekend again because she wants to go to a concert and a 4th of July cookout. Yet, she can’t see that her behavior is no different from her sister’s when it comes to the children. Might be even worse. I give Blondy credit—if she couldn’t find a babysitter, boy-child went with her or she didn’t go; and she didn’t complain about it, either. Which is far from what Shortie does when she can’t find a sitter. Plus, Shortie is all woe and deprivation because she can’t get ‘her’ ice cream and other goodies. Well, if she hadn’t lost her WIC card—again—so we had to use the SNAP card to get three cans of expensive formula for girl-child there would have been enough money for those things until SNAP refills. Don’t think she is getting the fact that the babies ALWAYS have to come first, and that she NEEDS to keep better care of her documents.
Blondy went to sister’s yesterday to get money to pay someone’s gas so she could go to court today for a child support determination. Sister laid into her for not showing up here last week or coming around at any other time to see her child. I don’t know which is better for BuddhaBoy—for Mom to come see him just briefly and leave again, or to stay away altogether until she is ready to take him full time. Just don’t know…
Received email from sister’s interview company asking reference questions. Hope I supported her well enough without giving so much information they back off! LOL
Moved about 15 struggling daylilies from the backyard to the front. Only six had labels Think I know what two others are, the rest will be surprises. :-D Mosquito bite on my forehead almost exactly where Hindus place a bindi. Since bindis are thought to retain energy, strengthen concentration, plus protect against demons or bad luck, maybe the mosquito was doing me a favor?
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New day. Buddha Boy not feeling well, he even turned away from mashed potatoes and grape ice pops—two of his favorites. So I just watered a little outside today. Spent much of the morning holding him in my lap while we watched Sesame Street song videos and this afternoon being a romper room toy for him.
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New day. Fourth of July. Almost Independence Day for Sister—she was offered a job with full-time hours, full benefits, and almost the same pay. She turns in her resignation tomorrow, and she let ME type it!!! YEA! Irony: She will be turning in her notice on what would have been my 10th anniversary with the company. She is the only one left with enough in-depth experience to do their shipping for them. It isn’t a job that can be done by just anyone off the street and her departure is going to cripple an already failing company. HA! Let your 21-year-old daughter fire me, whose only administrative management experience is what I taught her? AND let her use an accusation of embezzlement as termination grounds when you know very well it isn’t true—because the money went into YOUR pocket? Let her run MY sister off by deliberately harassing her near daily? rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I call it just deserts and I love it. Nah, nah, nah, nah, NAH, nah!
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Really missing my Russell this evening...
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