Category: garden

  • Another quiet night

    *I forgot the post this back at the end of June…Enjoy!* Last night was the final night of my solitude.  Jesse and the boys came back home today after their long camping weekend.  I’m happy they were able to go camping and be with his family and I’m happy I had a few days to…

  • Maternity leave, redux

    eBay has done a very cool thing starting this January 2016.  They have really beefed up their maternity leave/family leave policies.  Last year, the policy was you could get up to 12 weeks maternity leave, but only six weeks were paid by short-term disability and it was at 80% of your base pay.  Starting in…

  • 8.30.15

    It looks like our skunk problem has gone away, for the time being at least.  Jesse has been locking up the hens at night and I think he’s been perhaps feeding them their scraps in the coop at well, making it less enticing for vermin to come into our yard. Mister kitty is still missing.…

  • Unnaturally warm spring

    I know a lot of the country is getting hammered with winter storms, but in our neck of the Utah woods it’s been beautiful.  Our flowers have been coming up the past couple weeks and the weather has reached the mid 60s a few times.  On the one hand I like the warm weather, but…

  • Superbowl Sunday (and I couldn’t care less)

    Me:  I was going to see if the guys at work wanted to do a potluck for Superbowl Sunday tomorrow, but they weren’t there at work and now it’s too late to set something up. Jesse:  Can you watch the game at work? Me:  Nope, but I wanted to do the food thing. Jesse:  But…