Been kind of numb the last few months. Trying to hold on an even course and not wallow in it. :-p I know part of the grey funk is the drain from health problems, part from financial problems, and a really big part from having to give up my Willie-dog because he couldn't adjust to toddlers. I deeply resent the fact that I had to find another home for my baby, whom I have had since he was eight weeks old, because Blondy doesn’t want to act like a mother to her own baby. Very thankful I haven’t yet taken it out on boy-child. Nothing that registered with him, at least, for which I am devoutly thankful. It isn’t his fault. And he is a really good child, happy and even-tempered, which helps a lot. :-) Money is slowly getting better, too, where we don’t have to worry about the lights being cut off or enough food for the kids. Thumbs up!
Really sick of the pig-sty life in which these people wallow, and of neither of them doing even the minimum they agreed to with regard to housekeeping. “I’m too tired,” or “I don’t have time.” But they each have all kinds of energy and time to help clean someone ELSE’S house? GRRRRRRRR Have out of state visitors coming next week and I’m going to have to do what I can myself. Which doesn’t make me feel any happier. Started actively thinking of how to get Shorty and girl-child out of here. She graduates in June and if she thinks she is going to sleep all day, eat and text and watch television all night while expecting others to take care of her kid she is wrong, wrong, wrong. One of THOSE is enough. Sister will be gone soon enough—gentleman friend proposed and she accepted. Maybe even sooner, now. Once again, I am the bad guy for ‘making’ Shorty cry. I didn’t impose many house rules when they moved in, but she consistently flouts the one about being back at the house by 10:00pm unless other arrangements are made. Not a doormat here and if she cries because I am now going to really enforce the rule (after six months of arguing with her), so be it.
Even though we have had an unusually cold winter, most of my plants are showing new growth and even have some blooms, which is helping me to feel better. Since writing that last line, we had another 16 degree morning, freezing some of the daffodil buds already up and making mush out of quite a few daylilies’ foliage. But the surprising thing to me is how many plants don’t seem to have been affected, including the snap peas I direct sowed for the first time ever! I am really eager to see the yard this Spring. Much of what is in ground will be fully mature this year and I should have a spectacular show. Yea!
Blondy is in court today with boy-child to have DNA testing done on potential daddy #3. Sheesh. I’m not saying I was a saint in my youth by ANY means. Many folks would consider my behavior to have been just as shady as hers. Well, I do myself most of the time. But I kept it to one at a time, at least. If this guy is the one, sister says he is not too thuggy, would want to participate in rearing his child, and that his parents are jewels. Praying hard, there. The boy needs a daddy and I need someone else to help carry the load.
My bestest friend ever sent me a Wayside Gardens gift certificate for my birthday. After hemming and hawing and researching and asking for advice, I ordered two yellow Salvias and a Munstead Lavender. My Provence Lavender lost all but one branch this past Fall and needs to be dug up. Planning to put the Munstead in that location. It is much smaller and the Baptisia behind the Provence will be happy with the additional sunlight. Still deciding on where to put the Salvias. They are a cross between Greggi and Macrophylla. Not that I know what those mean, other than the Wild Thing Greggi I have is nearly indestructible. Hoping these yaller things inherited that toughness. Only get about 12” x 12”, so there is a lot of flexibility in siting them.
Bought some Bionic Rose Gauntlet Gloves to use with cutting down the monster climbers in back. Worked really well for trimming up all the roses in front. Was planning on starting on the back the next week…until I saw a wasp flying around close to it. Noooooooo, doan wannnnnnnnnaaaa!!!!
Going to get yard service estimates for their cost to cut it back before I decide what to do. It has to come down because it is draped/growing over the neighbor’s connecting fence panel and that fence is in bad shape. Don’t want the rose canes’ weight to take down the neighbor’s fence. Will see where it ends up. Tis one adventure after another in the garden and I wouldn't change much about them...except for no more wasp stings... :-P
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