Last day of August

Not much to write about this week.  Have been invaded at work by our techs, vendors and our two merchandisers for the deli/bakery.  They are rearranging everything and adding new products.  They were stressing me out.  Too many chiefs and not enough indians. They were stressing out my employees also.  Boring week otherwise.

Squirrels, pumpkins and crazy dogs

My dog Holly can not stand squirrels. The sight of one turns her into a barking crazy dog frenzy.  The squirrel above seemed to love tormenting her.  He got a whole ear of corn from the field next to us and took it up to this branch right outside my kitchen window.  Of course Holly went bonkers and was having a barking fit right under my computer desk.  I know he could hear her barking as he kept looking at her and ignoring her.  I finally had to send her to her crate to calm down and wait for rotten Mr. Squirrel to clear out.  This is Holly.  It's very hard to get a good picture of her because she is always underfoot.

This is Jazzy (Jasmine).  She doesn't go crazy and bark at the squirrels.  She goes crazy and barks at Holly barking at stuff.  She also thinks she is a chihuahua and want to sit in your lap all day.  She doesn't fit.

I am taking a trying a new medication to help with the grouchiness and the mood swings.  It is supposed to take a few weeks to build up in your system but I think I am feeling somewhat better already. If its a placebo effect, who cares.  I feel better. I Haven't felt like going off into a crying jag for no reason most of this week.

I now have 3 pumpkin bumps.  One on the regular pumpkins and two on the jumbo vines.  The largest is about the size of an eggplant.  They may make it yet.

Tomorrow is going to be a crazy day.  I have way too much crammed into tomorrow.

Humpday

Its Wednesday and here I am.I know Wednesday is called hump day for a lot of people it means that the week is half over, they are on the downhill side of a work week.  How many people actually work a nine to five, Monday to Friday work week anymore.  Unless you work in an office I'm thinking that that concept went out in the fifties.  People are all working all different shifts and have many days off in the middle of the week and are working on Saturday and Sunday and overnight.  It kind of aggravates me when reading magazines that say get out of work early on Friday and give yourself a long weekend.  Or talk about taking a little longer lunch on a stressful day to sooth out.  They obviously don't have a clue that the majority of their readers do no have that kind of lifestyle, work environment or schedule.  Even the radio announcers talk about hump day and the work week being half done.  No it isn't. Sorry.  Told you last time that I'm grouchy.

I have poison ivy again.  Third time this year.  I really don't think its actually poison ivy since all I've done is work in my flowerbeds.  I think its just something that my skin is sensitive to and makes me break out like poison ivy.I spent all last Sunday working outside since it was such a nice cool day for a change.  We've had such a string of scorchers.

I went to make a spice cake for tomorrow and forgot to spray the pan for the first layer.  It did not work well.  So we have a single layer spice cake for tomorrows dessert .Rhonda and Brian are coming over here tomorrow for our 25th anniversary.

In a Funk

OK. Lets try this again. I wrote this entire post out last night and blogger lost all but the first sentence.  So here we go again. 
I know its been a while since Ive posted. I haven't been in the greatest of moods.  There were four of us from my company that were going through cancer treatments the last year and a half. Two of us with breast cancer, one with an extremely rare form of cancer that is untreatable, and another bakery manager who had leukemia.  She had a liver transplant last year.  She developed a massive infection and just couldn't fight it.  She died a couple of weeks ago.  The pill I take has some nasty side effects including grouchiness and depression.  I am always irritable and my mood swings are horrible.  Sometimes I just want to cry for no reason. I don't think I'm depressed. I'm just pissed off at everyone and everything.Well that's enough griping.

I plant pumpkins every year and usually do OK with them. I have enough for fall decorations and Halloween and such.  I usually just throw the seed out and let the pumpkins do their thing.  This year I decided to try growing some jumbo pumpkins also.  This year I put them in some really good dirt and Ive been giving them plant food.  Since it has been so hot I have also been watering them quite frequently.  Out of 8 vines, 6 jumbo and two regular, I just now got a pumpkin bump on one of the jumbo vines.   Lots of blooms but no pumpkins.  Is this a bad year for them or what? The little pumpkin isn't even the size of a golf ball yet.

I'm going to try and post more regularly.  Since I am always off on Wednesday I'm going to try and at least post then every week.