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Saturday, November 14, 2020

 RETIREMENT!!  I am living the dream!   Back in August, I'd been hired at the local medical clinic to be a medical assistant.  I would room patients, get their weight and vitals before the Dr. saw them.  Then if they needed blood drawn or injections, I'd do that too.  This was a very small (2 Doctor) clinic in a very rural area.  When COVID hit, we were not prepared.  We had no masks and were not in a position to take patients who were possibly infected.  We just didn't have the knowledge to deal with it.  So, since I was so close to retirement, I furloughed myself.  My husband and I thought it the safest thing to do.  I did not qualify for unemployment so we had to be very careful with the finances.  I knew we could do it.  Summer came and the garden, blackberries and strawberries produced very well.  In August, I had my 62nd birthday and come October, I received my first Social Security check......Wahoo!!   All those years of working did end up with a good result.  Since March, when I furloughed my self, I guess you could say I was practicing for retirement!  I've since perfected it!  No more alarm clocks or thinking about whether I need to do laundry the night before for something to wear the next day.  My internal clock wakes me about 6:00 unless we need to be up earlier for something such as an early morning appointment in town which is an hour away.  But what I really want to share with y'all is that I'm taking more time to enjoy the moment.  I hope you do too.  If you don't take a moment occasionally, you'll miss things.  On my walk yesterday, I happened to stop and look up.  Oh....my....goodness....just look at that sky!




If I hadn't of stopped for a moment and looked up, I'd have missed it.  Just another reason to stop and look up!  How are you handling the COVID and quarantines?  We're so rural and isolated it really hasn't affected us much.  Now when we go to town, we've gotta put the darned masks on.  A lot of times I'll get out of the car and get to the door of the store and realize I messed up!  Head back to the car to retrieve the mask!  
Stay safe!


Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Beginning the Garden

I've taken a chance and I planted corn and beans yesterday.  I took my thermometer and checked the soil temperature.  It was "warm" or about 70 degrees.  This was about 4 o'clock in the afternoon so the sun had warmed it all day.  I've also planted 6 tomato and 6 pepper plants that I recently picked up at a local green house.  The extended forecasts all look pretty favorable for them to survive.  I do want them to do more than just survive though.  I'm so ready for fresh vegetables out of the garden.  I've been picking spinach that I sowed last fall.  We've had several gallon sized bags.  If the weather will stay on the cool side it will keep producing.
How is your garden planting going?

Morning dew drops on Yellow Rocket


New leaves on an oak tree in the yard.