Saturday

 Guess what we're doing this weekend?  

If you said "Working Saturday," congratulations!  You win!  No prizes except for bragging rights.  I'm having a bit of mixed feelings about this.  I know my bank account will love the overtime paycheck, but I kind of got spoiled to having weekends off.  This will be the first one we've worked in over a year. 

But at least things are looking up out there.  Business-wise, I mean. 

By the way, sub brazing is saved!  That's right!  They moved his high and holiness "Don't you know who my daddy is?" the demi-god of brazing back up into the department, because he can braze 500 headers a day, don'tcha know.  Yeah, the rest of us could get a lot more done if we didn't have to do all that extra stuff that he apparently doesn't have to do-- you know like use the purge gas, put a brazer number on our headers, fill out all that paperwork, go by the schedule instead of picking out the big orders of easy work, help tubing set up their machines, ordering and hunting down partials, brazing our rod ends together instead of tossing them into the garbage, and oh, yeah, fill out our scrap tickets...

In other news, man was the fog thick this morning when I was going to work.  It was so thick at times I couldn't even see the road.  I was praying I was still on it at times, and thankfully, I made it to the plant safely.  By the time work was done, it was absolutely gorgeous outside, and warm enough I was able to open my French Doors and let some fresh air into my house.   By Sunday, it's supposed to be back down into the 20s again.  Springtime in the South...

Then I walked out to check on my bluebonnets and noticed some of the daffodils I'd transplanted to that same spot were coming up.   They're kind of hard to see in this photo, but they are there. 

I didn't want anything to impede their growth, so I took the chicken wire off, mostly so I could move the 4 X 4s and bricks holding it into place.  I guess the few bluebonnets that have survived the winter will just have to fend for themselves.  Maybe they'll be able to hide in all the weeds.  I stubbornly scattered a couple of packets of seeds out there a few days ago, but so far, haven't seen any new seedlings coming up.  

Burpee has a little mini greenhouse with a grow light, that I have no idea where I'll even put it, but I really really want it.  Maybe if I ever get my taxes done, I'll have enough to buy it.  I'm not sure what I'll do with it, but I want it.  

Speaking of surviving the winter, look at this!  My lemon thyme is putting out new leaves!

Now I need to get out there and trim away all the dead stuff, which I might do right after I finish this post.  

Right now, it looks like that thyme is the only thing that made it, but I'm going to wait a few more weeks to see if anything else puts out new growth before ripping it all out and buying new stuff.      

And finally, I'm pondering the irony of them handing out a pamphlet on heart health encouraging us to maintain a healthy weight...with a bag of candy.  

That's ADP logic for you.