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It’s really been a long day for me and I still have so much to do.

I picked a couple of gallons of beans and some other assorted veggies today. It wasn’t bad for a first pick, but I’m disappointed about the way my beans have grown. We like one certain bean better than all of the others. Normally I grow them up cattle panels and they vine up taller than I am, but I put chicken wire all around my garden this year and decided to plant them around the parimmeter. The beans didn’t take to the chicken wire very well and when ever I tried to train them up the wire the runners would break. Now I’m having to lift the plants up off of the ground and hunch down to find the beans which are very hard to find that way. Normally they are all up and down and very easy to find on the cattle panel. I’ve decided to replant the beans and I’ve cleared out some room for them. Maybe I can get them in the ground on Wednesday.

I dropped both of my American Lit classes. I’m really kind of sad about it, but it was just too many hours for me to survive. I don’t want to neglect my family. I still feel a little sorry for myself, though. I wish I could take everything I want. Lit net is my consolation. It’s so nice to be able to read and post about books here. I don’t know anyone that likes the same books that I do and it really stinks that I don’t have someone to talk them over with. I love you guys!

I ordered this book from Amazon today for four cents!



After shipping it was 4.03, but that is still really good. Would any of you like to read it with me? I’ve been wanting to read it for some time. It will be the first book I’ve read by a living author in I don’t know how long.

My mother came up for the first time in months. She brought doughnuts and my soup pots and Larry. He’ll go in the mail the next time I leave the house. She also brought my brother’s girlfriend. It’s always hard for me to know how to feel about people. I really need like a year or so before I can really decide. I had a nice time visiting with her. They have a very unconventional lifestyle and sometimes it’s hard for me to support their ideas. I do understand how they feel because in theory it’s not a lot different from the way I am, but in reality it’s much further out there. I want them to be happy. I just wish that my brother would get a degree before escaping conventional society and all of the trappings therein. I think everyone knows what life at my house is like and you know that I’m not a mall lover, but I do want a since of normalicy. I’m not judging them, like I say I want them to be happy. Mostly I just worry. I like her. She’s a very nice girl that has had a very difficult life. I feel like my family is the closest thing to a family she’s ever had. My mom has really taken to her and I’m so glad. I think she needs a mother and mom is up to the job.

I almost went to the grocery store today- I actually went to town with that intention. At the last minute I pulled into the Dollar General store and bought some milk and Honeycombs and bleach. I just don’t want to have to go to Wal-Mart- I doubt any of you can really blame me.

Tomorrow I plan to clean out every dresser and closet. Wish me luck. I hate that job. The up side is that I went to buy a dress for a wedding (it was my husband’s first time to perform a wedding) that I ended up not going to. I tried on a dress and it was too beg so I got some smaller ones and they were too big and I had to get even smaller ones!!! I decided I could get some clothes out of the back of my closet. I’ve looked at them, but haven’t been brave enough to try them on. Now they fit!

so I feel a little like laughing and a little like crying- it's just been a long day.

I want to think of some cool goodbye to put here, but all I can come up with is Bluebird out and that doesn’t really work for me the way it does for her.
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  1. mtpspur's Avatar
    Andyet I now have this image of MH and Bluebiird watching Dr.Who together and discussing the meaning of it all. And nodding their heads wisely I might add.
  2. Virgil's Avatar
    You have beans already? When did you plant them? My mother's are only about a foot high. My mother likes the really long kind, something over a foot or 18 inches long. Did you say you picked gallons? Gallons? OMG, you really have a farm. Actually I got angry with my mother yesterday, furious actually. I stopped by and there she was digging another trench. I've told you about her drainage problems. I don't understand, my brother lives with her and she's digging a two foot deep trench by six feet or more long. It really pissed me off. And then she complains she achy and tired. Other than physically strapping her down I don't know how to stop this. Oh and unfortunately my read list is extensive right now, so I won't be able to read that with you. Looks interesting though.
  3. Virgil's Avatar
    Separate issue Mom-H. I think you've mentioned once or twice the problem with methamphetamine in your part of the country. Who knows, it might be across the whole country as far as I know. I came across this in my morning perusal of news that I thought might interest you: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/us...3k5gS7vo8VzB3g. Not sure where Gerald, MO is relative to you, but it is in Missourri. The article is more about the drug arrests than the drugs but nonetheless thought you might want to read it.
  4. motherhubbard's Avatar
    that was a great story, thanks for the link. I'll have to respond to that, but it will be a little bit long. There are several people who come to mind and some information I guess many people may not know about law enforcement.
  5. motherhubbard's Avatar
    and one more thing - when my plants grow right up the cattle panels it's nothing for us to pick fifteen gallons every three days. the picking is the easy part with these beans. they have to be strung down both sides and so the real work comes in preparing them for the canner. We usually pick in the cool part of the day, string them during the hot part while we watch movies (fun fun fun), and then can them in the evening when it's cooled off again. This year I have central heat and air for the first time since we moved into this house. I think it will make canning so much better.
  6. 's Avatar
    Oh, that looks like a good book. I'll read it with you but I'll need a few day to get my hands on it.
  7. motherhubbard's Avatar
    I'm so excited papaya! I don't know how long it will be before mine gets to me. I'll send you a PM when it comes and you do the same.
  8. Virgil's Avatar
    You'll have to tell me your canning process someday.
  9. applepie's Avatar
    Enjoy your time. It sounds like you have had a very busy day. Do you make jellies and such too? That is normally what I would be doing this time of year. Granted, I buy the produce on sale at the store, but I still love to make them. Take care, and enjoy the book. I would read with you, but I've not fit that in to life again yet. I'm still working on just time to write or visit here. Let me know how it is, though, it sounds interesting. Take Care (again), Meg
  10. Pendragon's Avatar
    Tell your husband for me, "Weddings are difficult, but funerals are worse! You know what makes even less sense? You have to have a certain licence before you can preform a wedding, but any yo-yo is allowed to do a funeral. I refrained from getting an actual licence to preach (God doesn't require one!) because I didn't want to preform weddings I knew I would be asked to preform, with good reason it turned out. However, this couldn't be used as an excuse when I was asked to preform the funeral of a dear lady I had been friends with since childhood. The family loved it, but I was a nervous wreck."

    Good luck with your garden. Oh BTW, the beans were getting back at you for moving them from their usual place! Hee-hee!