It's been a spring around here. Since I last posted some crap apparently changed on the blogger, and I had to relog. Meh, guess it's about time.
But things have changed. Quit working at Meijer. It was just too much of some, too little of other, and just timing and time to move on and do other. Was a bit disappointed with myself that I couldn't make it to at least a year after not leaving after a couple months.. But I knew this summer couldn't go down like last one did. Been working on recovering from some mental and physical shit, and getting into a better place to be able to work on it. And it was likely to get into one of those declining circles if I stuck around though this summer season.
As it worked out in fortunes turning, my love picked up more paycheck as I was having to accept I needed to move on.. and at the same time my friend at the local gardening nursery and bead shop needed to pick up a regular part time employee a couple days a week for the warmer season. The majority of my paycheck goes to fueling my garden and beads..
We have new renters working on moving in upstairs. It's the grandson of the folks that originally built the house and we finished buying the back 10 acres from in fall of 2017. He and his gal and all have been working on getting the upstairs nice to move in soon. He also has been mowing down our yard in this wonderful giant borrowed mower till we can fix our little orange gal. The Sanctuary has been mowed more open than it has been for years.
And a week or so ago he downed three trees in the yard. The maple growing far too close to the south side of the solarium down to the ground. Holy shit the light difference and temp difference on that side of the solarium already! And the couple pines that were already half dead, one by a big wonderful maple, the other shadowing an iris patch that I now need to finish with cutting the wild honeysuckle out of, lol. And dig up a goodly bit of Jay's Sky iris to pass on at the shop and to plant in around the NB place.
Got this years peppers and tomatoes in the pots and ground last weekend, along with a lot of other seeding of beans, cukes, squashes, greens, flowers... a lot of stuff.
I still have to tackle the perennial beds, clean up the future asparagus bed that we got 27 three year from seeds crowns ready for. Trouble Hill and it's mints are in trouble and need cleaning up lest the weeds and ivy eat up all the mint.
Kicking up a bit of creative juice with some of these changes too. Crystals and stones, colors and.. last night I strung up a tasty bit of tiny gem faceted lapis with treated lava glass daggers.
Been struggling a bit with the beer drinking alcoholism. Ok, a lot. Cuz yeah, I'm an alcoholic like it or not. But working on that too. Kicked smoking for serious, and been on vaping again. Yep, sucking any crap other than straight up pure clean air can be bad. Nicotine, was on 18, been doing 12 mixed with 9 to keep going down. The dude at the shop I pick my vape units from.. said he was on 25, and looked at me like I was crazy when I said I was working on kicking the habit down to nothing.
Sometimes it's about working on stuff. Sometimes about writing it down.. and catching up.
