Lovely day outside!

And I intend on spending a little of it before I head to work accomplishing things out in that loveliness. There's so much to get done, and so little time to do anything, and things are moving along so slowly that it's driving me up a tree. I do wish that banks would be better on lending to folks with low debt, though. Seriously, my debt is about 30% of my annual income right now, and going down by the week. Things are getting paid off. Not fast, but they are getting paid off. Does this mean anything? Noooo ... apparently, loathing credit cards to the point you refuse to have one at all for any reason means you are not credit-worthy. I don't want to have to wait until five or ten years down the road when I have enough saved up to buy a place outright, so if a bank won't lend to me once I have a decent downpayment put together, I will likely have to go owner finance or the like. It's tough, but doable. I've already looked into tax sale for the counties I'm willing to live in for this year and there's nothing of interest except one parcel that has been through this before. It got claimed by the state for back taxes, sold, and then was redeemed by the original owners barely prior to them losing it permanently. Now it's up for sale again - with that kind of history, there's not alot of folks willing to take on bare land full of trees on the off chance that the person the State seized it from won't redeem it.

But in good news, I do have some photos for y'all which also prompted me to go spend a little bit of money on Amazon last night. I had a bit on gift card balance so that knocked down the total price for me. I ordered a copy of "Seed to Seed," because with putting in a garden and wanting to save seeds from stuff, I need to know what I'm doing. Why waste time and effort on a steep learning curve when I can do the research and let someone else tell me what to do or not do?

Lookie! It's teeny, but it's a tomato blossom on one of my Arkansas Travelers! WHEE!

And this is one of the large ornamental gourds. The photo of the Straightneck Early Yellow Squash didn't come out at all ... might have helped if I'd kept my fingers out of the photo. (Sorry it's blurry, this camera doesn't do closeups very well.)

And this is two of the three Kabocha squash that are coming up! Now if everything else would hurry up and start growing ... but I really do need to get beds finished up for them first, lol. I only have so much time before stuff has to be transplanted to get beds put up and corn and beans in the ground so the squash can grow on and around the corn and beans in the Three Sisters method!

Time to mainline some caffiene so I can get awake enough to do some outside stuff before I go to that hellhole of a job that I'm rapidly starting to loathe for some reason (probably all the excessive overtime - we are supposed to be done a 130AM, there's a lot of nights we don't get out till 230 or 3! I don't mind a little OT, but that much every night gets tiring after a while.)

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