Happy Mother's Day!

A very Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms, Grandmoms, Great-Grandmoms and even the Moms-to-be out there! This is OUR day, let's celebrate!!!

Mine is just starting, on account of being on second shift. I'll make dinner quite a bit later for us, as we ate out for today as usual and called it an early Mother's Day lunch. Making chicken alfredo later. Hubby swore he'd help today with whatever I wanted without griping. There's a lot to get done that I want to do today and tomorrow. (Come Father's Day, I will help him with projects and gripe at him just as much as he gripes at me today. Fussbudget! It is till death do us part, but only if I don't kill him first, lol.)

How come tomorrow? Well, being the age that I am, I'm not willing to sell my vacation time back to the company, and since our hiring anniversary and birthday holidays have to be taken as days off in order to be paid the holiday pay ... I'm taking tomorrow as my three-weeks-late anniversary holiday. Still had to fill out the paperwork for it, but I have a free day tomorrow. This will go on allll summer long as every other Monday off, because in two weeks is Memorial Day and two weeks after that is my birthday and ongoing all summer, with the last day I get free being Labor Day in September. I think I will enjoy this summer.

We still need to get a few things for the bailer bucket, but I found a video online that shows a guy using one in a shallow well, and Quentin was impressed. It was a shallow well, but the folks at Hydromissions, where I got the idea from, have said it will work in as deep a well as needed - just make sure you have enough rope. The guy who does it there has said they've used it in 400-foot wells, so with our water table only 125 feet down, I don't think we'll have an issue. And since the well is spring-fed, that's good, clean water year round now that I have hubby convinced it's a good idea.

But I have a lot to get done ... other than finding books for y'all today. I have stuff to plant, maters to water since it's not expected to rain today (though it feels like it could), a bit of tomato trellis to put up and more beds to get installed. Mostly though, it's going to be getting seeds planted in the mini-greenhouses so they can get a healthy start on life and growing food for us! (Also maybe some to sell later, but we'll worry about that when the time comes!)

After: Yep, it's going to rain. But at least I got a bunch of stuff planted, to where the mini-greenhouses are full. The lids don't stay on tight, so thankfully I am a knitter, because some long pieces of scrap yarn tied around both short ends will help hold the lids on. Shoot, they are already getting condensation buildup on the inside of the lids, it's just that warm. I planted canteloupe, watermelon, lettuce (that went in the four pack from when I got the Arkansas Traveler tomatoes a few weeks ago - I don't need THAT much lettuce!), eggplant (which I've never had but what the heck, I'll give it a try), ornamental gourds (went through and tried to get six different seeds, will be crafting with and selling these), cucumber, four kinds of peppers (jalapeno to sell, california wonder and mixed color bells, and mixed mini sweet bell), five kinds of squash (kabocha, zucchini, straightneck early yellow, acorn and butternut), and four kinds of tomatoes (brandywine red, roma, large cherry and super sweet 100). The peppers and tomatoes got two six packs each, the rest got one, barring the lettuce as I mentioned. It is not nearly enough.

The trellis didn't get put up quite like I wanted - Quentin got a wild hair that he thought he knew what I wanted and did it that way, instead of asking me how I wanted it done. I gave up ... I'll fix it myself tomorrow the way I want and then I will know it will stay put. So now he's out fussing with his trailer, and I'm okay with that because it gets him out of my hair to do a couple things I want to get done. Not everything will get done today that I wanted to get done, but I may be able to get at the couple of things I wanted to do yet tomorrow afternoon or early evening, because I also have plans to go to Home Depot for more dirt and to Pizza Hut for an early dinner (with leftovers to come home for noshing after dark at my usual break time). Today is being a generally nice day, and tomorrow promises to be nicer. (Now if I just didn't have to go to work at all anymore, lol. That would be ideal! Days like today everyday!)

I still need to get the beds fixed up the rest of the way so I can direct seed the flowers, onions, carrots, spinach, collards, turnips and turnip tops, corn, beets and radishes. (Thank goodness for long Ozarks summers.) Plus once I get the booklist done and all posted all over, I need to also get a spreadsheet going with what was planted, when to expect germination, a column for actual germination, days to maturity, and I want to track how much I harvest and what is done with it. I am hoping to soon find a good free downloadable accounting program. I don't see the sense in having one I can only access as an online app, or that I have to pay through the nose for. I'm a poor, poor start of a homesteader, lol. But I am proud of myself. At least this year, I got a garden started! A year later than intended, but better late than never. We will eat good later this summer with salads and of course also with food over the winter.

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