a few gardens and Linda the reporter.

Me at the old sewing machine


Debi getting her hands dirty

Blair planting a peppermont with the lettuce starter
my guys being silly as usual

So I have been working 2 jobs, sewing and painting like a mad woman and have developed an irrational fear of seamstresses, in addition I have also managed to spread green thumb fever among my peers and co-workers. I thought it would be a great idea to have my clients take care of a small garden this summer and as you can see they loved it! I got lucky too I was originally going to take my foundation money * I donate 10 dollars from my paycheck monthly to go towards fun things like gardens* and build a big garden but we are right next to a field and have a vole problem like no other and I didn't want to risk hard work for rodents even though they are really cute. So I decided to plant a few things in these planter buckets the wood shop build, these were extra and had been used for wasps nests. We managed lettuce, broccoli, a sweet 100 the only tomato I like, and a pepper plant. I even got to plant some spinach and onions in the flower beds out front today haha. I am out of control but after weeding the main garden (Andrew, Liann, mine and previously Skoticus) I have decided to stop with two, BUT...my night job where I take care of girls with disabilities as well talked me into helping with a really overgrown garden where I did half the shopping for and pick-axed the whole damn thing. Here is Chrissy with a huge weed patch I pick-axed up. Needless to say I was wicked sore the next day, but felt like a WOMAN! There were lots of unnecessary spiders too, I do not know why they insist on being places I am.


OK so at ATEC my boss about 2 months ago came to me with an idea for my class, he suggested we take on a volunteer route for the meals on wheels program. I of course thought that was a wonderful idea and got right on it. I had to fill out at least 15 background check forms for all my people and send it in to the coordinator, a few weeks later we were ready to go I got trained had a blast meeting all the new people and finding out how cute my guys can be with seniors. I got praised for being such a wonderful girl (not to bad a deal) and how I would make a great mom because I can give shotgun rights evenly. So I had only worked the route once and the coordinator thought we were so great she called the newspaper and told them what we were up to. They also thought it was wonderful and sent Linda the reporter to follow us and get a story....I had done the route ONCE! so Linda the reporter called me Monday and got times and places to meet etc. She was there on time and we headed out I was so nervous! So nervous in fact that I pulled out into traffic in front of a big truck and almost caused an accident. Then I went in the completely wrong direction I was supposed to and made a total idiot of myself, let me just paint a picture of this....Very large white van with 5 adults with disabilities one in a wheelchair so the van is super sized, making large sloppy u turns and reeking havoc in the town of Pleasant Grove, and a very confused repoter behind me thinking she may have a different kind of story on her hands. She was actually very nice and called me later that day to thank me and we ended up chatting for a few like besties. Linda the reporter was really neat very down to earth farm woman so of course we talked about gardening!

To read the article and my hippie quote go HERE