June 1, 2007

• June 1st???  Is it REALLY???  I MUST be getting old - REALLY old.  Time is racing by faster and faster every year.  Guess I had better hurry and do all those goofy things I always wanted to do before there is NO time left!  Ha! Ha!

  Jesse will be returning from Washington tomorrow afternoon.  We've altered our plans for tomorrow because of his trip.  Tomorrow is the day we affectionately call, "The day that changed the rest of our lives" - a name stolen from my sister, Nancy, and her husband.  Although we sat in the same section at church and had said hello to each other for about 5 or 6 months, we had never spoken to each other.  On June 2nd, we both showed up at another church's Monday evening service and afterwards spilled our life stories to each other until 1:30am!  This will be our 10th June 2nd - the day that changed the rest of our lives.  We're going out for a nice meal and keeping it simple, since Jesse will be traveling from early morning until he arrives here between 2:30 and 3pm.

  I've been doing well without Jesse, but yesterday ended up at the doctor's office and 3 of our children (Rissy, Luci, & Marcus) are now being treated for strep throat.  Yesterday, the new lawn guy, that helps Jesse, and Marcus drove through "something" spilled over the road.  When I came home from the grocery store, I had Marcus open up the garage door and the stench from Jesse's truck almost knocked me over.  The flies IMMEDIATELY swarmed from outside into our garage.  It smelled like the trash cans at the state fair after the tenth day!  I'm guessing a sewage or garbage truck dumped their precious cargo.  The guys said they washed the truck and the smell had been much worse before the car wash.  Last night, I moved the truck out to the driveway and had a friend of Jesse's come help Marcus unload the mowers into the garage.  The truck will remain in the driveway until we can find an "under carriage power washer" to remove the odor.  It was wafting in from the garage, under the utility room door, and into our kitchen.  I could smell it while we ate our chili dogs - VERY unpleasant and reminiscent of eating at the fairgrounds!

  We've had lots more rain this week and more is expected tonight and tomorrow.  Bad for the mowing business!  I'm thinking I will need to start my tomato plants in clay pots.  After they are taller and can stand the puddling water in the big planting area, I will move them.  If I wait much longer, there may not be many starter plants left for sale.

  I'm making chili for dinner tonight and that will give us enough leftovers to make it through the weekend and I'll LOVE not having to cook.  All of our children enjoy leftovers.  I think it's like going to a restaurant buffet in their eyes!

  Well, I'm off to start being productive this FIRST day of June - before I lose momentum and steam!

   

   

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