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There is another snow storm followed by ice rain headed our way; supposed to start later today, in fact. My HABS team is playing tonight, and with only satellite reception out here, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we’ll be able to see the game. Karen’s two month stay with her son involved watching TorontoContinue reading “SNOW AND THINGS”

I haven’t posted for 8 days, and am sitting here wondering what I actually DID do for the past week; seems to me it was a lot of absolutely nothing! Not because there isn’t plenty to get done, mind you. It feels like I’ve slipped into a hibernation mode. I did read a book. TheContinue reading “ANOTHER WEEK.”

Friday Today was the day for callback from some potential employers, and they started early. When I had met the accounting firm I was up front during the interview. Because the time they need the most help is during income tax season, I warned them that I had always handed that off to someone else,Continue reading “BACK TO THE GRIND?”

And there it is – 3 interviews done in as many days, not counting the applications sent out over the internet. Predominant in all this is my confusion with the salaries offered. Companies and establishments complaining about lack of personnel, but only willing to pay amounts that are just on or below poverty level. BecauseContinue reading “HO-HUM WEEK”

So I have one telephone and two in-person interviews to do this week. I received the call for the second in-person interview this morning. A Sunday. Times sure have changed. Where I was raised, Sunday’s were sacred. The day of rest. You did what had to be done – milk the cows, feed the animalsContinue reading “JOBS AND FUN”

I filled out forms on various employment agent sites, indicating on each form that I wanted part time work and, ideally, remote, so that I could stay at home and avoid commuting. I have been bombarded with available positions, but they clearly did not pay attention to the words ‘part time’ nor ‘remote’.  A fewContinue reading “NEVER SAY NEVER”

Pistache started with the noisy screeching when my son, Bow, and Little Flea were here Sunday night for supper. Bow, who is one of the very few able to approach that bad tempered fowl, remarked that she was more loud and annoying than usual. “I don’t know why,” I told him. “Her cage is clean,Continue reading “MORE MAGIC”

I’ll have to quit watching or reading the news. Again. Being curious, I like to know what is going on around us, but it has become too much. I spend much of my time shaking my head at the manipulation and misinformation floating out there, and the gullible, selfish acceptance of it all by anContinue reading “NEEDS MUST”

There’s this thing between me and plants. I’m not sure what to call it, I guess uneasy truce would describe it. Sort of. When any plant happens to fall under my ‘care’, it’s like an immediate telepathic exchange: Me: Ummmm Plant: Help!  In my defense, although I was raised on a farm with immense gardensContinue reading “THE SOUND OF MUSIC”

Even in these freezing temperatures, I don’t put the heat on in my bedroom. I sleep better with lots of blankets and 3 big dogs sharing my bed for warmth. The floors are hardwood, so it does mean there’s a little dance in the morning until I can get the cold toes into a pairContinue reading “AND THEN THERE WAS THE OUTHOUSE”