Money in, Job out.

Blessings, Darlings!

Got my meds and hit the grocery store I get them at, and the Aldi's.  Got home to find my first unemployment check AND a letter from work saying that we are no longer 'no on the schedule due to lack of business' but are now 'separated' from our jobs.  Due to things closed down due to Covid 19, we don't currently have to look for work to keep getting the unemployment comp.  The unemployment check included the $600 federal unemployment stimulus. Yay?

And look at this shit that Covid 19 does to the body.  You thought drowning in your own fluids was all?   Read this: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampage-through-body-brain-toes .

Spent a chunk of time sitting in the yard, listening to the birds, just enjoying a spring day.  The oak trees is about to go Big Green.  The Cherry tree is already there.  The sycamore is barely budding.  

Tomorrow will be 'drive to the Big City to go deposit checks in the bank, and maybe go to Costco."   

Frondly, Fern

A Garden Day

Blessings, Darlings!

Gardening time. Even tho' my knee is still extremely fucked up with tendonitis (It will need another 4 to 11 weeks before I expect it to be 'mostly better') I worked in the garden today. Not being an idiot, I focused on stuff I could do with minimal knee involvement. I focused on covering the newly mown grass (holy fuck, American Facebook doesn't think that 'mown' is a real word) with flattened cardboard boxes and weighing them down so they won't blow away in the mighty spring winds. This will help smother most of the grass, making it easier to turn it into garden without having to put lots of knee effort into it.

I didn't get a huge amount done, maybe only about 30 square feet covered. But it I do some every week, that's serious progress. The cardboard boxes are empties I took home from work over the past few months. I knew SOMETHING was coming, and was clear about shit being shut down, but didn't know about the virus. So I prepared to increase the garden as cheaply and efficiently as possible.

They are weighed down with bricks that I really want to use for a different purpose, and if I can get my knee or my family to agree to haul manure to put on the cardboard to hold it down, I'll replace the bricks with that. 

 

Now that I'm not working, I will run out of cardboard pretty darn quickly, I'm afraid.  I'll have to look for new sources at that point.  Probably the grocery store.  

 

Meanwhile, I have been starting seeds for the past week and today my radishes are up! Yay! 

 

In the more daily daily - washed dishes, have started bread.  

A Day of Tea and Reading

Blessings, Darlings!

The day started with a thunderstorm.  Then just rain.  And it's still cool, cloudy, damp, and windy.  A raw day. We've more than enough leftovers that I don't need to cook dinner tonight.  I've done some housecleaning already.

It's time to sit in a chair with a cup of tea and read.  I'm starting with re-reading parts of H. Byron Ballard's "Earth Works: Ceremonies in Tower Time" (and given our times, I suggest that all y'all read her Tower Time documents) and then try to catch up on reading and practicing the lessons I signed up for from Jason Miller (I'm doing his Strategic Sorcery course.)

I have decided that I need a tea cozy for my tea pot. Having Covid-unemployment, buying one is not in the stars right now. But I have bubble wrap left over from having moved. Using that and tape, I'm making my own. If I can find some velcro in my sewing supplies, that would be a nice touch, too, otherwise I'll need to add a ribbon tie or buttons.

And that, my friends, is our Arts and Crafts class for today.

 

Frondly, Fern