Monday, May 20th

I'm up and having a cup of internation coffee. Homemade of course. Our youngest daugther brought us several bags of flavored coffee beans a few months ago and we've really enjoyed them. I need to ask her to get more for us. The price she told us she got them for was much less than anywhere else we've seen them.
I do hope to get the 8-12 tomato plants, 10 pepper plants and 3 eggplant plants into the raised beds or large pots today. Surely we've had our last cold night. I may have to go up to the neighbors and get some more rotten silage to fill my big pots and some for the dryer tubs. I am thrilled with the way the potatoes are coming up and looking so fresh and green. I've really cut back on the vegetable gardening this year. We have so much left from former years that I really don't know where we would store hundreds more jars. I'm also tired of buying new jars every year because the old ones are still full. I'll concentrate on moving daylilies and iris into beds and out of the old fenceline this summer.
I have a couple trades I need to get out today. Our clove shrub has sent out so many runners which have come up all over that bed that it is taking over and crowding out other plants I want there.
Happy anniversary, KathyJo and Loved One. 30th isn't it? Have a wonderful day, love birds. May GOD richly bless and keep both of you and grant you many more years of happiness and companionship.
Shad only has 2 more units of work in each of his 5 subjects. He is getting so bored with some of the material offered because he has had it so many times before. I just let him take the tests, and if he makes 95-100% he doesn't have to do the lessons. Below those scores he has to do the daily lessons. Not only will this prevent many battles, it also rewards him for remembering material presented to him before. He has serious short term memory problems and needs to be rewarded for remembering something.
He just got the 7th grade material in January and the computer he uses was down for almost a month. We eventually replaced it with a new one so he has done most of a year of work in about 4 months. He usually only does school work for 2-4 hours a day, then watches 2-4 hours of educational TV a day as well as reading books and magazines like Motor Trend, manuels on electrical wiring, plumbing, and carpentry. He gets National Geographic and Muse magazines and reads his uncle's and grandfather's NewsWeek, and other magizines they take. He loves to read and work at creating useful items. I really see him owning small handyman business someday. His mother sees him becoming an engineer of some sort.
SO much to get done, so little energy and time to get it done. GOD bless and keep each of you.